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After the Election We’ll Need a Strong System of Higher Education More Than Ever

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jamie Merisotis That progress tends to get lost, however, amid legitimate concerns about the cost of education and its efficacy in preparing students for jobs. We get it: Higher education must do better. It’s that we must develop our very human capacities for learning and growth. We simply must commit to use them.

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Humanities majors should pay lower tuition (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. Source: CUPA-HR 2021-22 Survey of Faculty in Higher Education. Full Professor.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. It Isn’t Loving Me Back.”

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. Shifts in demography, the economy and cultural values have far greater influence than the stories that dot the higher ed press. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? How about the defunding of higher education?

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Insight Into Diversity Honors Legacy of DEI Innovator, Former Board Chair

Insight Into Diversity

His sudden departure leaves a void not only in the lives of his loved ones but also in the fields of higher education, social justice, and diversity advocacy. In 2008, he developed the first Editorial Board for Insight Into Diversity magazine, and was selected as the inaugural Board Chair. “He Christopher A.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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Whole-brain Teaching Strategies for the Diverse College Classroom

Faculty Focus

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success?

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