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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education.

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Course-Correcting Mid-Semester: A Three Question Feedback Survey

Faculty Focus

2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002). 2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p.

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Course-Correcting Mid-Semester: A Three Question Feedback Survey

Faculty Focus

2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002). 2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

Teaching interdisciplinary research practices has gained attention in higher education, shifting from primarily focusing on modeling interdisciplinary research to explicitly addressing how and why interdisciplinary research should be performed (Szostak, 2007). The Review of Higher Education , 34(1), 61-84. Caspersen, J.,

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Representation Matters: Reflections on Academia’s ‘Leaky Pipeline’

HEPI

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. The good news, however, is that ethnic diversity has been gradually increasing in UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). per cent respectively from the 2002/03 academic year to 2019/20. Email Address.

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Higher ed must maintain research integrity. Here is how

University Business

Without proper mediation, those shortcuts can resurface years later at the highest echelons of academia. ” Leaders accused of cheating will exacerbate higher education’s political divisiveness , says Phillip Magness, senior fellow at the Independent Institute, a think tank.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

Teaching interdisciplinary research practices has gained attention in higher education, shifting from primarily focusing on modeling interdisciplinary research to explicitly addressing how and why interdisciplinary research should be performed (Szostak, 2007). The Review of Higher Education , 34(1), 61-84. Caspersen, J.,