Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. I thought I could make more of a difference at MIT because of its unique role in science and engineering.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history. The Transfer Playbook points to presidential leadership as a key factor in ensuring transfer student success. This holds true for selective institutions.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. It will be superior to humans in making purely rational calculations, aiming single-mindedly at maximal profit. It will avoid crowd enthusiasms, fads, and panics; and take advantage of humans who act emotionally. It will solve all its technical problems.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There’s a pervasive sense among many adults with humanities degrees that In the wake of deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodernism, semiotics and the cultural, linguistic and discursive turns, literary studies, in particular, like other core humanities disciplines, is in deep trouble. The field has fragmented.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 8, 2023

The short book does cover that history briefly, but goes deeper into racism and struggles to overcome it in her life in Texas. It also gives a deep history of how racism was built into that state’s structures from the first settlers who came to Texas from what became the Confederacy to a state constitution that favored some over others.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

When colleges are evaluated based on enrollment or graduation rates, the institutions respond rationally, by reducing admissions or grading standards; when, in contrast, colleges are assessed in terms of value added, the most selective and richly resourced institutions or those focused most heavily on engineering and business predominate.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

Much of the early history of grades in American higher education was associated with creating a way to determine which student would give that speech. These typically include a “valedictory,” which is literally a farewell speech to the graduating class.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

As for the idea that educational institutions require a distinct mission with well-defined implications policy and practice, what we see are campuses – with the exception of military academies or religious or small liberal arts colleges -- with multiple, complex, often conflicting and competing, functions and responsibilities.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Of course, the most important outgrowth of the financial crisis was to accelerate the shift away from traditional humanities fields toward STEM fields. The popularity of majors that lead directly to well-paying jobs, whether in business, engineering, health care or information technology, shows no signs of slackening.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Image: As recently as a decade ago, the concept of “value” rarely found its way into discussions about federal policy making about higher education. Policy makers also wind up making poor investments in some colleges and some programs that can’t live up to that promise. An edited transcript of the discussion follows.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

centric and more committed to serving as a community resource in identifying, critiquing, and altering racially inequitable policies and practices. This “social justice” turn represents a resurgence of structural and (often) of materialist analyses of international relations, law, medicine, and public policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The current context of education is riddled with anti-Blackness that continues to find systemic ways to harm Black children and adolescents, ranging from the persistent surveillance and pushout from educational opportunities to anti-CRT legislation that prevents all students — not just Black youth — from learning about Black history and culture.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence group defines artificial intelligence as “a term coined by emeritus Stanford Professor John McCarthy in 1955, was defined by him as ‘the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.’ Often times this now happens via neural networks.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. That addition began to reshape public policy and encourage the framing of a concept of an institutional ‘research culture’. The Royal Society adopts the same wording.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

12 ), filmmaker Byron Hurt explores the abusive—even deadly—rituals of hazing culture and how they reflect the powerful human desire to belong. But I think that this is more a function of organizations and institutions where there is an established history of hazing. Hurt spoke with Inside Higher Ed via Zoom.

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

We know that the post-COVID labor market changes, the messed up supply chain that is still reconfiguring itself thanks to geopolitical changes, the tight labor market, the unwinding of a decade of high-stimulus monetary policy, and the high cost of college have all conspired to make enrollment changes odd, unpredictable, and unsettling.

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HESA

MARCH 23, 2023

They’re not that similar in terms of campus style but overall because they’re public schools, so the fees and admission policies are all quite comparable. Students who want to major in humanities or social sciences subjects then will be tested in history, geography, and political studies. YC: Thank you.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2023

He has also held several academic and administrative leadership and faculty roles which include associate provost/assistant vice president, Academic Programs at Brooklyn College; and associate dean, School of Arts and Humanities, and chair, Department of English at Lehman College. Both institutions are part of the City University of New York.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Reflecting on the past is as valuable in our personal and professional lives as it is in policy making. Then there is a fourth tradition, which represented a distinctively American contribution: A focus on human capital formation, local and regional economic development, entertainment and sports, and community service. Apparently not.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. ” But CMU-Africa has been followed by a cloud of controversy over its partnership with a Rwandan government led by president Paul Kagame, who has been accused of a litany of human rights abuses.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: Over the last five years, most of the Confucius Institutes hosted at American colleges and universities have closed down—but now a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines a process for their potential return. Whether U.S. higher education and the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Recent reports by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and the Center for American Progress on sexual orientation and gender identity data call for change in clinical and research data collection. Prefer to self-describe (please specify): Do you describe yourself as transgender or having a history of gender transition?

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HESA

MAY 4, 2023

Not just climate science, but how humans respond to it and how we think about it. 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. So we’re already seeing this happen.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Suny, a leading historian of the Soviet Union and Russia and perhaps the foremost authority on ethnicity policies in the former Soviet bloc, is not just a military conflict. It’s also a war of narratives—stories that undergird the policies and strategies of the opposing sides.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. Policies and Practices. coherent, integrated curricular pathways.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

To know ourselves, it’s essential to know our own history. Unfortunately, most academics know remarkably little about their collective history, even its more recent iterations. American history, my field and Graff’s, was just one of many disciplines that underwent a sea change during the 1960s and early 1970s.

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University Business

APRIL 23, 2024

More from UB: The 3 factors holding at-risk students back from graduating The ethical dilemma Student calls for divestment have a significant history in higher education, and some have proved successful. Similarly, student calls for their institutions to cut ties with Israel has a storied history.

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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. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

This policy shift, while intended to provide structured oversight, may inadvertently place additional burdens on these institutions. About Our Podcast Guest Michael Goldstein has a long history of close engagement with higher education. Another model was New York University acquiring control of New York Polytechnic University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Q: You call your book “the political history of an idea.” ” What is that idea and why do we need to know its political history? government policy than of higher ed per se. Shelton spoke with Inside Higher Ed via Zoom. Excerpts of the conversation follow, edited for length and clarity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.” According to administration officials, the policy gives the Secretary of Education the ability to “waive or modify” federal student aid provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) in the case of a national emergency such as the pandemic. SB17, signed by Texas Gov.

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