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A People's History of Higher Education in the US?

Higher Education Inquirer

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. Some of it has been documented. No one has documented the full-length of the terrain. There is a growing educated underclass, people who are working but are not working in areas that they had hoped for.

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Wikipedia Community Documents Pro-Palestinian Protests on University and College Campuses

Higher Education Inquirer

The article includes sections on campus protests by state, serving as an outstanding source that documents student occupations that started at Columbia University in response to tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians being killed and a half million facing famine.

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AAUP on Florida: authoritarian control wilting higher education

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Ron DeSantis has been at the epicenter of higher education this past year. In K12 and higher ed, the term “woke” has plunged education into a muddy existential battle. In K12 and higher ed, the term “woke” has plunged education into a muddy existential battle.

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Report calls on UK to review higher education funding

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The UK government must review higher education funding so that institutions can “plan for the long-term and set sustainable funding and delivery models”, a new report has said. “Further funding shortfalls will lead to risks for the breadth and quality of higher education provision,” it concludes.

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Higher Education Inquirer Archive

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The Higher Education Inquirer is removing information from the right panel; information that can only be seen in the non-mobile format. Richard Fossey) Rebuilding the Purpose of the GI Bill (Garrett Fitzgerald) Paying the Poorly Educated (Jack Metzger) Forecasting the US College Meltdown College Meltdown 2.0

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“Equality key” to engage globe’s fourth largest higher education system

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For Waldenor Moraes, vice-president of the Brazilian Association for International Education and international officer at The Federal University of Uberlândia , it’s less about competing and more about collaborating. We are the fourth largest higher education system in the world. “Collaboration is the key word.

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The Bologna Process 25 years on: higher education quality and international trust

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Baroness Blackstone was Minister for Education and Employment from 1997 to 2001, and has led two universities: Birkbeck, from 1987 to 1997, and the University of Greenwich, from 2004 to 2011. The policy paper outlines how realigning with this good practice could help retain international trust in UK higher education.