Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

But the AAUP says that the university’s administration “has abandoned its duty to uphold the mission of the institution and signaled to all the world that the university is no longer committed to academic freedom.” It undercuts the university’s educational mission and discredits its reputation.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

On the 60th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, we stand at a pivotal moment in history. s powerful "I Have a Dream" speech, we are called to reimagine a future where economic opportunity is accessible to all Americans. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dr. Marcus A.

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HEPI

APRIL 27, 2023

I’m not sure anyone has ever argued that going to a traditional university is the only way for the truly exceptional to leave their mark on the world. The first of the two is Paper Belt on Fire by Michael Gibson. He helped set up and run the Peter Thiel scholarships for young people. But Gibson’s book includes, I think, an important insight.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As geopolitical tensions flare up, international eduction is weighing up how to operate in the world’s second most populous country. Leaders are urging the education sector to engage with China, and last week, a group of 20 UK university representatives joined the UK-China Higher Education mission.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

The news about Law, coupled with ongoing concerns about academic freedom and political interference at UF, has therefore troubled some on campus. The news about Law, coupled with ongoing concerns about academic freedom and political interference at UF, has therefore troubled some on campus. I learned about this only about a month ago.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

As Dr. Martin Luther King Day approaches this year, colleges and universities across the nation are gearing up once again to celebrate and honor the life and legacy of the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Penn State , for instance, has events lined up for a number of its campuses. In 2023, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip hop.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

JANUARY 16, 2023

For a communication scholar, whenever the world takes a moment to reflect on great speeches is a win. In the “I Have a Dream Speech” it is easy to see that the message is created from the words, the context, the cadence, and the messenger. The dream he describes builds a world that is honest, wholesome, and just.

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2023

Whether the problems are temporary or systemic, the answers to them must lie – in part – in UK universities, which are not only educating the next generation of employees but also pushing at the boundaries of knowledge on how to better the world. In the aftermath of the COVID19 pandemic, progress seems uncertain.

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The PIE News

MAY 18, 2023

.” “Like any international body operating in the UK, Confucius Institutes need to operate transparently and within the law, and with a full commitment to our values of openness and freedom of expression. “We Meanwhile, some stakeholders are calling for the end to university-based Confucius Institutes.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

The answer: because people have opinions, beliefs, agendas and values coloring the way they view the world. Either way, art represents an ever-necessary, ever-changing reconsideration and recalibration of how we see the world. ” when discussing the work of Charles and Ray Eames. And vice versa.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Accordingly, the IUPUI community is supported in generating open resources, and efforts are made to ensure equitable access to these resources, not only for Indiana residents but for the world. Bartle Library Tower at Binghamton University. American University, Washington D.C. American University, Washington D.C.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The college classroom is a unique space where students are empowered to think critically about the world around them. Lukianhoff & Haidt, 2019), their effects on academic freedom (e.g., However, sometimes the content of our courses involves information that is sensitive, disturbing, or even traumatic. What is a content disclosure?

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

“This doesn’t serve the students, it doesn’t serve democracy, and it certainly doesn’t serve the world those students seek to improve.” “This doesn’t serve the students, it doesn’t serve democracy, and it certainly doesn’t serve the world those students seek to improve.” Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.,

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Academic freedom under attack. Accreditors facing political heat. Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis. It’s enough to make one shake. As I read the higher ed press, I try to find the trendline. Let’s go through a number of the key sources of concern one by one. percent in 2004 to 54.4 percent in 2021.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The college classroom is a unique space where students are empowered to think critically about the world around them. Lukianhoff & Haidt, 2019), their effects on academic freedom (e.g., However, sometimes the content of our courses involves information that is sensitive, disturbing, or even traumatic. What is a content disclosure?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With the advent of machine learning in the 1980s, statistical models could be trained to learn patterns in text, produce decision trees, or recognize speech and classify text. tools that followed the advent of the World Wide Web. as a tool in research project supervision. Word embedding led to better understanding of context.

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There is a lot going on in the world of HigherEd faculty, so in this article, we’ll break down the difference between tenured and adjunct professors, the role of faculty at an institution, and how the tenure process works. What is an adjunct professor? How does academic tenure work? What is an adjunct professor?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With the advent of machine learning in the 1980s, statistical models could be trained to learn patterns in text, produce decision trees, or recognize speech and classify text. tools that followed the advent of the World Wide Web. as a tool in research project supervision. Word embedding led to better understanding of context.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Most of our 500-plus first-year students were new to the discipline and the course was designed to introduce foundational ideas about what it means to think sociologically and critically about our social worlds. In short, our politics shapes our work as researchers. But isn’t politics as central to our classrooms as it is to our fieldwork?

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Along with civil rights, conservatives are assailing issues involving free speech and expression, education, health care, and gender-neutral bathrooms as well as gender identification processes. Health care, sports participation, curriculum, drag, and forced outing are all under attack.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And it occurred to me that while our culture manages quite well with words that wield bold power—for instance, we defend freedom of all kinds of speech, even the offensive—we grant far less value to words of subtle emotional power. It’s a format that’s simultaneously efficient and inhibiting. Do you agree? Why or why not?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Science fiction is the genre that allows us to imagine the future—not just future technologies, but the future of society and human life. Will it be better culturally, ecologically, economically, ethically, politically and socially or, instead, a dystopian hellscape? Dick’s dystopian 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With more capacity than students and issues like political interference, the decline in public trust, and the threats to academic freedom, the higher education president’s role is more stressful than ever before. Maintaining Academic Independence: Upholding academic freedom in the face of societal and political shifts.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The stated goal of the conference was identifying ways “to restore academic freedom, open inquiry and freedom of speech and expression on campus and in the larger culture and restore the open debate required for new knowledge to flourish. There can be no academic freedom without enforcement.

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HEPI

MARCH 20, 2023

Julian argues a reclassification of universities by the Office for National Statistics is unlikely but, if it were to occur, could result in a suspended sentence in which institutions retain the freedoms they’ve enjoyed pending changes to get them back into the private sector. Universities value their autonomy.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Michigan, says he is a “world-class trombonist” who worked as an adjunct professor and performer for the university since 1999. ” Mattson is alleging violations of his federal constitutional rights to freedom of speech, religion and equal protection.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Has our world changed so dramatically that it’s time to revise the tone and tenor of academic year opening speeches? For years now, decades even, college and university presidents have made predictable, and perhaps rote, speeches welcoming the academic year. Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Previous Year Highlights.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

King’s College London finds 65% believe campuses places of ‘robust debate’ – but growing number disagrees Most UK students say their universities are places of free speech and debate – although a growing number are aware of free speech being restricted on campus, a study published by King’s College London has found.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

As higher ed nears the looming enrollment cliff , colleges and universities looking to drive enrollment growth must identify more pathways for students to obtain a college degree, especially in the case of first-generation students. Dr. DeSanctis is unique. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Young, senior manager of free expression and education at PEN America, a free speech organization. Young, senior manager of free expression and education at PEN America, a free speech organization. It’s clearly in response to the dramatically changing demographic, social, and cultural world of the state and the nation,” he said.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

With a single click on a smartphone, most students can easily turn off campus Wi-Fi and switch to their personal cellular data to continue watching TikTok’s endless stream of content. Universities in Montana and Texas are the latest to implement bans on their campuses.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

But there are three other issues that are equally important yet aren’t front and center on the radar screen. These are issues that need to be addressed if we are to improve the quality of the education our campuses offer. Issue 1: Transparency and accountability. Our current system of institutional accountability is wholly inadequate.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” “One prominent Stanford professor, active in university academic freedom issues, spoke for many, telling us, ‘I can’t be seen on the program with right-wing nutjobs like …’ and named a few of our speakers,” Cochrane added. “At an academic freedom conference.

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HEPI

JULY 31, 2023

In August, we are running chapters from the Anniversary Collection as a blog series. This piece is the Foreword from that collection. I had for some time thought that there was need for such a body – other subjects of public interest like health, foreign affairs, environment and so on had think tanks devoted to them – but not higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

Our response to the classroom event does not disregard or minimize the importance of academic freedom. Academic freedom is very important, but it does not have to come at the expense of care and decency toward others,” they added. The instructor had warned students of her plan.

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HEPI

JANUARY 31, 2023

Unexpectedly for a piece of legislation whose passage through Parliament has been painfully slow , December 2022 saw a rapid series of changes made to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill. The tort represented an escalation by the Government in its methods to tackle a purported free speech ‘crisis’.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 19, 2022

That article contains no mention of the First Amendment, or even of freedom of speech interests more broadly, so we’d like to offer that perspective. As bad as we are at predicting the possible risks of technology, we are certainly worse at imagining the ways they might transform our world for the better. .

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