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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Name an area of importance to our future—training for the millions of new workers in technology and other fields, the proper role of artificial intelligence, advances in green energy, our response to climate change, the promise of genetic science. We get it: Higher education must do better. You are already living in an AI age.”

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See which 9 schools are the latest to make college free

University Business

It marks the latest step higher education leaders have taken to answer growing criticisms about affordability. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced it will cover tuition for all students whose families make less than $200,000, the approximate income threshold of 80% of U.S. households.

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Hoke’s Notes – The Plight of Small Colleges

Edu Alliance Journal

At 74, I still have ideas to share and contributions to make in the field of higher education. I aim to address several projects and issues moving forward, such as returning to my work as an international higher education consultant and re-launching two podcast series. Hoke has a B.A. from Urbana University, an M.S.

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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shirley Ann Jackson is the 18th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technological university in the U.S. Jackson also was the recipient of a 2009 John Hope Franklin Award, presented by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Jackson holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D.

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Academic Freedom, Tenure & the U.S. Higher Education System

GlobalHigherEd

Yesterday’s balanced article (‘ Tenure or Bust ‘) by Colleen Flaherty , in Inside Higher Ed , is but the latest of a series of nuanced pieces Ms. Flaherty has produced this year about the unfolding of higher education debates in this Midwest U.S. state of 5.75 million people. more broadly? Kris Olds.

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Pollard to Receive Dr. Dorothy C. Yancy Vanguard Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The award, presented by the Higher Education Leadership Foundation (H.E.L.F.), The Fulbright scholar was the first African American to achieve tenured professor status at Georgia Institute of Technology. Smith in North Carolina, and she accepted the presidency at Shaw University in 2009. The Dr. Dorothy C.

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Shenandoah University’s Device Program Gives Students the Tools to Succeed

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Since 2009, the iMLearning program at Shenandoah University has been giving devices to incoming undergraduate students at the start of their college careers. By standardizing technology across the student body, faculty can more easily deliver lessons and troubleshoot issues.

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