Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

JULY 9, 2022

I think we need to develop a curriculum that is open to contemporary real world challenges. The First World War, the Great War, wasn’t a World war in July 1914. The Second World War likewise was not a world war in September 1939, although it engulfed the globe in due course. It became one later.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A: There were two moments when world events really intruded on American admissions. One was, after the full horrors of the Holocaust and World War II were assimilated, in the mid- to late 1940s, it became really untenable to keep talking about people in gross, crass ethnic stereotypes. There really is nothing new under the sun.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

It focused on South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel, and the issues each faced. Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. In college, I took a comparative politics class on settler colonialism. And sometimes a frank statement of values is necessary. If so, what did they do?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

But finding a partner to help navigate the world of online program management was no easy task. “That’s absolutely unheard-of in the OPM world,” he said. The former OPM official concurred, saying a common revenue split would be 60 percent for the college and 40 percent for the online program manager.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

” Rabbi Litvin, who trained as a Holocaust educator at Yad VaShem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, runs an annual weeklong Holocaust education program on campus, and he finds non-Jewish students at the University of Kentucky know shockingly little about the history.

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HEPI

MAY 12, 2023

Possibly the first high profile TNE review (or ‘audit’ as it used to be referred to those days) was of TNE operations in Israel in 1999 where bogus degrees of a UK degree awarding body were sold without their knowledge through franchised agreements gone wrong.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Mark Rusling says that a university education is clearly no inoculation against anti-Jewish racism, and Lynne Davies is appalled that Jewish students are being targeted at UK institutions The description of Jewish fear at British universities by an anonymous student at Oxford University is deeply upsetting and yet deeply unsurprising ( Why is antisemitism (..)

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The PIE News

JANUARY 3, 2024

He is Lauder Professor Emeritus and Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of the Wharton Think Tank, which aims to bring the knowledge of the worlds to the school. There is no problem in the world that can be solved with a single discipline. A renaissance person.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 21, 2023

The UK is closing its gap with the US in the latest Soft-Power Index, with the latter retaining top spot having educated 65 world leaders. Since 2017, the last year when the UK boasted having the most serving world leaders as alumni of any country in the world, the US has extended its lead every year after overtaking the UK in 2018.

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University Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

More from UB: How the Israel-Hamas conflict may increase higher ed’s need to supply cybersecurity professionals How did different fields of study fare? Who runs the world? This decline in enrollment snaps a two-year streak of positive enrollment in 2020 (1.8%) and 2021 (8.9%).

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2023

ACLU and Pen America back former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth and say decision ‘raises serious questions’ Leading civil rights organisations have condemned Harvard Kennedy School’s denial of a position to the former head of Human Rights Watch over the organisation’s criticism of Israel.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A year on since Russia invaded Ukraine, we asked academics from different disciplines and backgrounds to share how they are addressing this conflict with students in classrooms in universities across the world. Last year, unfortunately, it also marked the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

Image: The Students for Justice in Palestine organization at the University of Chicago has been protesting teaching by a former deputy director of Israeli Military Intelligence whose “main academic interest,” according to the Israel Institute, “is societal resilience in the context of protracted terrorism against Israel.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

in anthropology and Black world studies from Miami University in Ohio. 7 Israel-Hamas conflict. The senior diversity officer holds an Ed.D. in adult and higher education from the University of South Dakota Vermillion; an M.A. in Afro-American and African diaspora studies and anthropology from Indiana University Bloomington; and a B.A.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

We heard, for example, about the over-dependence of UK universities upon EU students and staff , and the critical role of EU research monies (especially via Horizon 2020 and the European Research Council ) in supporting one of the most research-active higher education systems in the world. Nothing can be the same.

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2024

“They are going to make a difference in the world.” However, one phenomenon causing stress, anxiety and tension on campus the last few months—and to which many leaders have yet to find a sufficient response—is campus protests catalyzed by the Israel-Hamas war. This generation of students is fantastic,” she says.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Dibyesh Anand, deputy vice-chancellor for global engagement and employability at the University of Westminster articulated the current tensions in fair EDI practices on campus, brought into sharp focus by the escalating conflict in Israel and Gaza.

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University Business

DECEMBER 13, 2023

More from UB: AAUP on Florida: Authoritarian control wilting higher education Federal investigation into university antisemitism widen Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, the Department of Education now has 12 open investigations on colleges and universities for alleged Title VI shared ancestry violations. A survey conducted by U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

He’s co-founder and vice chairman of International March of the Living, an educational program that takes participants, including high school students and others, to Poland and Israel to learn about the Holocaust. “Colleges and universities are not immune from what’s going on in the big world,” Bakari said.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 19, 2023

Indeed if the whole world were to consume resources at the rate of the United States, then we’d have used up a whole year’s worth on March 14. This is the day on which we will have used all the resources that earth is able to generate in a year. You don’t have to be a scientist or mathematician to see that this equation doesn’t work.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

StopAntisemitism, a watchdog group founded in 2018, dubbed an assistant business professor its “ Antisemite of the Week ” and a “Professor of Hate” in July, citing his tweeting that “Israel and Ukraine are societal cancers and must be eradicated” and “#FreePalestine by any means necessary!!”—among

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2024

As Afaneh begins reading a speech about the Israel-Gaza war, Chemerinsky and his wife, the law professor Catherine Fisk, quickly cut Afaneh off. One of them shows the woman, Malak Afaneh, as she gives a Ramadan greeting; she is accompanied by a small group of other student protesters. Continue reading.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

First, administrators investigated a professor for displaying an image of the Prophet Muhammad in a history lesson based on the Islamic world. .” San Francisco State University FIRE highlighted two instances related to the California institution that occurred last year.

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University Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When students took to X, formerly Twitter, to criticize UCLA on behalf of professors who advocated for their participation at a pro-Palestine teach-in on the recent Hamas-Israel conflict , the university quickly responded to cut down anyone’s belief that it intentionally endorses such an event. How does this impact higher ed?

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Jewish, Palestinian and Muslim students are reporting harassment and abuse on US university campuses as the Israel-Hamas war continues. Campuses have become a hotbed for tensions, with protests breaking out supporting both sides of the conflict and university leadership under fire for their positions or silence on the war.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

The latter has been nothing short of an embattled phrase, with protesters claiming either that it calls for eradication of Israel or freedom for Palestinians. News & World Report, more than 40% of Americans are unconvinced that systemic racism exists in the U.S. To note, according to a 2022 poll from U.S.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

Protesters into seventh day of hunger strike in support of Palestinians and in effort to demand university divestment A group of students at Yale University were on Friday into the seventh day of a hunger strike in support of Palestinians in Gaza and in a protest to pressure the university to divest from any weapons manufacturing companies potentially (..)

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UW Presidential Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

As a community of people who are deeply engaged in the world beyond our campuses, we are all touched by the events playing out on the world stage, particularly the deadly conflict in Gaza, including the suffering of Palestinian civilians and Israeli hostages. Such acts are not only harmful and hateful, but cowardly.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

The letter was written in November 2023 following the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas, prompting Israel’s attack on Gaza. Continue reading.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

As the death toll mounts in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis worsens, protesters at universities across the US are demanding schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies they say are enabling the conflict.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Erum Salam and Margaret Sullivan report from New York As the Israel-Gaza war grinds on amid a worsening humanitarian crisis, the world’s attention this week was captured by a battle on the campuses of elite US universities.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

The university is to hold virtual classes after protests on campus culminated in the arrest of more than 100 students Over 100 students at Columbia were arrested last week after refusing to leave a pro-Palestine protest encampment set up on the university’s main campus.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Consul Yuval Donio-Gideon objected to course at Bard College but president says institution ‘stood up for academic freedom’ Israel and Hamas at war – latest updates An Israeli diplomat tried to persuade a leading New York college to cancel a course about the growing debate over whether the Jewish state practices a form of apartheid in Palestine.

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we look ahead to 2024 and t he biggest election year the world has ever seen it will interesting to see how universities are positioned politically in the UK and all over the world. Maybe higher education needs to tell its stories and narratives to the wider world in equally accessible and creative ways.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

News & World Report’s longstanding college rankings was called into question as institutions vie to personalize their brand to match students’ needs. The fervor over U.S. Republican-led states have aimed their sights at diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, thanks to a strong charge by Florida Gov.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

Political leaders, organizations, and campus communities are calling on college and university officials to assess and find ways to improve the campus climate and protect students from antisemitism and Islamophobia amid a rise in tensions during the Israel-Hamas war. Antisemitic incident reports in the U.S.

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UW Presidential Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For weeks, our community, like communities around the world, has been deeply affected by the intense violence and conflict in Israel and Gaza. We mourn the thousands of lives lost and the incalculable human suffering.

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