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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

A social and cultural historian with a specialty in the history of childhood, the family and the life course, he directed Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center and the UT system’s Institute for Transformational Learning. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

by Brett Bligh, Sue Beckingham, Lesley Gourlay, and Julianne K Viola SRHE’s ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposium series, delivered with Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson, aims to foster continuous dialogue around learning spaces. Julianne : It has!

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

The authors state their rationale and goals up front: The conventional model of higher education is facing growing skepticism. With rising tuition costs, ballooning debt, and concerns about preparedness for the work force, many are doubting the value of higher education. The context of the need.

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A state's plan to calculate the "economic value" of a degree

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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A Happy Anniversary

Susquehanna President's Blog

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. It was a remarkably forward-looking essay that did much to transform higher education and higher thought in our nation, and ultimately, the world. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. He is the world's eye.