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Exploring the History of Latinos in Baseball

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So, when it came time for him to pick an academic pursuit, the study of Latinos and sports history naturally came to mind. I just wanted to understand what [the history was] behind this,” says Burgos. “I Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Legends Henry and Shirley Frye Honored with Renaming of A&T Building

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has renamed its Academic Classroom Building, one of its most high-profile buildings. In 1959, he became the first African American student to complete study and graduate from the University of North Carolina School of Law and, in 1963, the first African American assistant U.S.

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

HEPI

The second type is the undergraduate qualification awarded by several Scottish universities following a four-year course. 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. Recipients have to be awarded a B.A.

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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess

Higher Education Inquirer

History can be many things. Annual volume of private loans skyrocketed, from $5B in 2001 to over $20B in 2008, when 14 percent of all undergraduates had one. Related links: A Report on the Loan Purchase Programs Created by ECASLA Student Loan Debt Clock America's Student Loan Providers | C-SPAN.org Student Loan History (New America)

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Surviving and thriving in HE professional services

SRHE

The Higher Education and Research Act of 2017 therefore includes what is now a considerable range of higher education providers in England, traditional Universities among them, but also hundreds of alternative providers. By 2016 the Registrar was manager to half the Universitys staff. Oxfords Registrar had a staff of five in 1914.

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Students Increasingly Don’t Remember the 9/11 Attacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, who was vice president of government relations and public affairs for New York University (NYU) on that day, climbed to the roof of Bobst Library when she heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. College seniors were born in the fall of 2001. But some aspects of 9/11 are indelible. Everyone was on edge.”

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Print Encyclopedias, Universities and ‘All the Knowledge in the World’

Inside Higher Ed

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.