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Public health majors grow by more than 1,000 percent

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Tabitha Edson always knew she wanted to work in health sciences. She earned a nursing assistant certification in high school but decided not to pursue the field at Westminster College, a small private institution in Salt Lake City; she worried that it would limit her job opportunities when she graduated.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This marks an increase of more than 15,000 Asian people in the county since 2010. Jason Oliver Chang “The largest country-of-origin group in Connecticut are South Asians, predominantly from India,” says Chang, who identifies as white and Chinese American. More than 170,000 Asian people reside in the state of Connecticut, according to the U.S.

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A brief history of the ‘honorific’ Oxbridge M.A. degree

HEPI

The Master of Arts degree could fit the description. The third type is the degree awarded by the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin, which are effectively honorific degrees. Teaching began to shift from the universities to the colleges. When is a degree not a degree?

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. They have proliferated in range and subject. The question is whether that affects their ‘value’.

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A partisan tug-of-war over the University of North Carolina

Inside Higher Ed

Art Pope, a member of the Board of Governors since 2020 and a prolific Republican donor , denied that the compelled speech vote was motivated by politics. Of course it’s political; it's always been political,” said Thorp, now editor in chief of Science. ” N.C. Yes, we are.

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Interdisciplinarity

SRHE

Research’, first in the natural sciences, then in all subjects, only slowly became an expectation. Research’, first in the natural sciences, then in all subjects, only slowly became an expectation. We invite further blogs on the topic from other institutional, disciplinary, multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This marks an increase of more than 15,000 Asian people in the county since 2010. Jason Oliver Chang “The largest country-of-origin group in Connecticut are South Asians, predominantly from India,” says Chang, who identifies as white and Chinese American. More than 170,000 Asian people reside in the state of Connecticut, according to the U.S.