Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

The Future of English Departments Faced with sharply falling numbers of majors, many English departments are downplaying the traditional canon and pre-1800 (and sometimes pre-1900) literature and instead emphasizing Creative Writing, communication, media studies, global English language literature, and non-Western literature.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

” A university spokesperson said all the affected departments have prepared continuity plans for the strike. He said that while there is a long history of union organizing among professional staff at colleges and universities, militant tactics have become more common in recent years. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. at an American university. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. at an American university. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Established in 2020, the College of Ethnic Studies is the newest college at California State University, Los Angeles, and one of only two schools of ethnic studies in California. The addition of 54 new faculty from underrepresented groups means the university has its most diverse group of faculty in its 200-year history.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 1, 2021

I mean, nothing like this has happened before, at least in sort of data tracking history. I came across a little data point the other day saying law school applications and admissions where way up year over year. As you engage in financial aid leveraging, does it have the potential to change the way those departments interact?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has written the best article that I’ve read on the recent decision by leading law schools to boycott the US News ratings. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

One week into my academic career, I was appointed chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages. Her life was palpably in danger every day that she integrated the University of Mississippi’s law school. One of my prize possessions is a picture frame Mama Olivia gave her while a law student.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“This incident is particularly harmful to our Black community members during this important celebration of Black History Month.” ” An official of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote a letter to university president Sylvia M. Burwell the very next day voicing concerns about the investigation.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

A wave of threats continued throughout February, Black History Month, causing particular alarm among students, faculty and staff. He also noted that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are offering HBCUs training sessions on managing bomb threats, which Dillard University participated in this summer.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Lawmakers across the country tried to enact 563 measures to restrict the teaching of “critical race theory” from 2021 to 2022, according to a new report from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law.

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HESA

MAY 4, 2023

So I’m thinking of examples of catastrophic cases like Pakistani campuses being underwater for most of last fall, or to go back in history, like what happened to Tulane after Hurricane Katrina. It may also require the ability to redesign an entire curriculum perhaps overall an undergraduate curriculum or at least individual departments.

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GlobalHigherEd

APRIL 18, 2017

Editor’s note : this guest entry, also posted on Inside Higher Ed , has been kindly developed by Sejal Parmar , Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal Studies and a core faculty member of the Center for Media, Data and Society at the School of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 7, 2024

Learning Leadership by Example In describing his leadership style, President Welch recalled a few pivotal moments early in his academic career: “I was going to go to law school to be a politician. I had been president of the student body in high school, and then I became president of the student body at the University of Arkansas.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 19, 2022

history, having “been sued a whopping 134 times in federal court since his inauguration, which is nearly three times the number of lawsuits our three previous presidents have faced in the early months of their administration combined. “The Yale dean on free speech at Yale Law School. “ Sincerely, Heather K.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 26, 2023

Painter—forced the university’s segregated law school to admit him, only after the state had tried to fund Black students to attend law schools out of state and had built an alternative law school at an HBCU, Texas Southern University in Houston. history requirement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. Department of Education (ED). History will say we pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps,” says Dr. Kevin James, Morris Brown’s president. History-maker Dr. Ruth J.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. Emeritus, 2015-present. [00:00:28]

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.” Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for how schools can navigate admissions and still consider other factors in evaluating applicants, including neighborhood and high school data, life challenges, and experiences of racial discrimination. “The

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