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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

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I’m also saying this as someone who’s curated several, including one on running as an arts and humanities discourse that a 2014 Guardian article said ‘other conferences could take a leaf out of’, for its 8-minute sprint formats and multi-modal approaches including film screening, meditation sessions and run-chats.

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Surviving and thriving in HE professional services

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CUA traced its history back to the Meeting of University Academic Administrative Staff, founded in 1961. These are overseen by the Chief Financial and Operating Officer and variously serving Technology; Estates and Facilities; Human Resources; Research and Enterprise; Planning and Risk; External Relations; student needs etc.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

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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Driving While Black

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

on June 9 near the Delaware Water Gap was caught on video and raises new questions about the history of policing along the busy thoroughfare 25 years after four young men—three Black and one Hispanic—were pulled over and shot by New Jersey state troopers while driving to North Carolina Central University for a basketball competition.

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Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. on historicizing 'The Hobbit'

Inside Higher Ed

Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion ( Palgrave Macmillan ), Robert T. Hobbits are not magical or supernatural; they are, basically, small humans. And when their world goes into upheaval, their stories naturally resonate with human experiences of massive change.

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Will Pandemic-Era Traumas Have Lasting Effects?

Inside Higher Ed

11th, 2001, terrorist attacks—deeply consequential for those who lost loved ones and family breadwinners as a result of the extremists’ strikes and the military aftermath, but a horror that has faded for most others? Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. It is the job.

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