Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

According to UCLA , Helen later pursued a long career as an elementary school teacher, while Morgan continued in higher ed, earning several degrees from UCLA, in addition to an M.S.L. from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard University. He gained prominence as a trial and intellectual property lawyer. Though, the Ralph J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

What Murray Sperber described in his bestseller Beer and Circus in 2001 is every bit as true today: the academic enterprise is decentered, and the quality of housing amenities, the robustness of student life programming, and the quality of an institution’s athletic teams are primary drivers of undergraduate enrollment. Dr. Adriel A.

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Liaison International

JANUARY 12, 2023

Number of undergrads pursuing public health degrees skyrockets. Undergraduate public health degrees have surpassed master’s degrees in the same field as the nation’s most popular type of public health degree. For example, the University of Pennsylvania received the most early decision applications in its history.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

It is well-established that neurocognitive variants like dyslexia, ADHD and autism are over-represented in the arts and culture (above 30%, eg RCA 2001 ; Bacon and Bennett (2013 ); Universal Music (2020 )). Now that’s weird!

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Earlier this year, Richard donated his prized 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona, marking the first Ferrari in the automotive restoration program’s 45-year history. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and an honorary doctor of humane letters from McPherson College.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

According to the Center for First-Generation Student Success 2018 survey results, the three most important student success factors driving institutional offerings for first-generation students were retention, completion and degree attainment, and academic performance (Figure 1). College Student Journal , 43(2), 313-324. Robbins, S.,

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

According to the Center for First-Generation Student Success 2018 survey results, the three most important student success factors driving institutional offerings for first-generation students were retention, completion and degree attainment, and academic performance (Figure 1). College Student Journal , 43(2), 313-324. Robbins, S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion ( Palgrave Macmillan ), Robert T. In his early drafts of the Silmarillion story, he played with different ways of getting at the history, including a bizarre sci-fi version where some Oxford professors travel in time to the era of Gnomes in the First Age.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

In its Registration Conditions for the grant of degree-awarding powers the Office for Students adopts a requirement which has been in used since the early 1990s. SRHE member GR Evans is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge. [1] Research selectivity and interdisciplinarity.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

From the end of the nineteenth century Oxford and Cambridge experimented with postgraduate Bachelors degrees awarded on the basis of a piece of original research. Vacancies’ for academic jobs commonly express a preference for a candidate to have a postgraduate degree but do not require it.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Office for Students now grants degree-awarding powers to new providers of higher education but so far these have almost all been confined to powers to award ‘taught degrees’. Titles, status, hierarchy and contracts all have their history and the University’s constitution plays a decisive part. Statutes and Ordinances.

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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. Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. Emeritus, 2015-present.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Perko graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1987 with a degree in history. She earned a master’s degree from the University of Richmond. 2015, Perko was awarded an honorary degree from Methodist University. In 2008, Perko was inducted into CoSIDA’s Academic All-America Hall of Fame.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield Published in February 2023 The only time that I ever worked outside higher education was when I worked for Encyclopædia Britannica. If you are interested, that story is detailed in a blog post I wrote in 2010.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Even US news outlet NPR reported : It is notable that for the first time in British history, none of the four most senior ministerial positions — prime minister, finance minister, foreign secretary and home secretary — have been taken up by a white male. Thirty-two per cent graduated from Oxbridge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“Growing up here, we knew about UCLA, but it seemed so far away,” he says of the institution, roughly 15 miles away from his old neighborhood, that has served as his academic home since 2001. “It While pursuing a master’s degree in education, Howard quickly developed a deep passion for research. “I It was like a lifetime away.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

2017) For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Cornell University Press. Women and Higher Education in American History. Fast and Curious: A History of Shortcuts in American Education. American higher education: A history. Smart (2001). 1991) The American College and University: A History.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

who earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at HBCU institutions. “It History will say we pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps,” says Dr. Kevin James, Morris Brown’s president. Giovanni has received 30 honorary degrees and seven NAACP Image Awards. History-maker Dr. Ruth J. Headline News One year after the Jan.

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