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Who You Gonna Believe?

Inside Higher Ed

Some law schools admit less qualified students on a part-time or probationary status to exclude them from the rankings that look exclusively at full-time students. How to decide what policy decisions or prescriptions should be drawn from science or data. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Throughout 2022, Ball State University has made significant progress on its five-year Inclusive Excellence Plan, which aims to advance broad DEI goals across the university, including campus culture, policies and infrastructure, and recruitment and retention. Minority Male Initiative — Broward College.

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College 2023

Inside Higher Ed

I find it remarkable that leading law schools decided to attack the ranking system by denying U.S. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. The key levers, in my view, must come from outside individual campuses, since that may well be the only way to overcome institutional gridlock.

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State of Black America Report Focuses on Extremism

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is driving the way people vote, it’s driving what school boards do, it’s driving what governors do. If we do not interrupt it, then our efforts to impact issues like economic policy and education policy will be academic exercises.” History teaches us, if you beat on the door long enough, eventually the door gives way.”

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Universities on Fire

HESA

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. One of the ways that you talk about the climate crisis is the way that crises may affect institutional operations directly.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

” 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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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.