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Doing What’s Right

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If you look at the history of ethics — figuring out what’s the right thing to do, etc. — the longest history is connected to practice of medicine,” Moazam says. “So, CBEC, inaugurated in 2004, is the only bioethics center specific in its focus on bioethics research and education in Pakistan, according to Moazam.

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Is Academic Scholarship Stagnating?

Inside Higher Ed

I should add that neither US News nor the educated public has much understanding of what a first-tier, cutting-edge English or history or sociology department would look like. One might attribute this quiescence in the humanities to an aging professoriate or to shrinking doctoral programs and departments and increasing reliance on adjuncts.

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Conveying Fragility

Inside Higher Ed

” I raised an eyebrow, but it made sense; she was born in 2004, so he had mostly left public life a generation before she was born. She’s wildly bright with a steel-trap memory, but she was also born in 2004. The fad for declaring the “end of history” in 1989 came from that story. (I’ve

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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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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Dr. John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. . — regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009. The Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.

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What is a Chancellor for?

HEPI

This HEPI long read was kindly authored by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. HEPI is hosting events at the Labour Party Conference and, in partnership with the KCL Policy Institute, at the Conservative Party Conference.

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