The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

A review of the calibration of the scheme is a way to “avoid political traps now” and give parties maximum room for manoeuvre after the election, noted David Willetts, who was minister for universities and science from 2010 until 2014. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. The reality is very different.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

This area of study offers a variety of career pathways with an interdisciplinary focus, such as criminal justice, social work, law, business, technology, health and sciences, education, and human resources. The demographics of veterans continue to change. While this group is expected to become increasingly diverse, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. Unanswered Questions. So why was Chinese targeted? “Why was Chinese language and culture cut?

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Creative arts (CA-HE), often deemed less valuable than STEM subjects, are particularly threatened ( Puffett 2022 , Redmond 2020 ), evidenced in the closure of departments, and exacerbating the already tense relationship between the CA-HE and HE ( Elkins 2009 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2023

22 August · Episode 169 Navigating President Turnover: Higher Ed Leadership Challenges 25 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Discover the impact of president turnover on higher ed leadership. Explore causes, DEI, governance issues, and retention solutions. Brit” Kirwan of the University System of Maryland.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Drumm McNaughton Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment. Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Non-majors often struggle to connect course content to their lives, making it harder to see the subjects value (Labrov and Singer, 2010). Some may experience anxiety or feel science is irrelevant to their careers (Rice et al. To address these challenges, educators must adopt approaches that make biology accessible and meaningful.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Non-majors often struggle to connect course content to their lives, making it harder to see the subjects value (Labrov and Singer, 2010). Some may experience anxiety or feel science is irrelevant to their careers (Rice et al. To address these challenges, educators must adopt approaches that make biology accessible and meaningful.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

On numerous occasions I’ve been asked, “How do you know that? I read on the internet …” And I’ve heard and overheard, “Did you know (fill in the blank with some crazy conspiracy theory)?” To say I’m frustrated or mad would be an understatement. They willingly participate in propagating lies.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma NPR just pulled the plug on its once stunningly popular Invisibilia podcast, which explored “the invisible forces that shape human behavior.” Historians sometimes describe the social sciences as theory rich but often data poor. They are cultural, demographic, economic, historical, and sociological.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Between 2010 and 2020, the Houston metro area added 1.2 When I recently heard about the new Houston University of Science and Technology, I thought progress was being made. It’s the one to two weeks each year the weather’s perfect. Not so scorching hot and humid it feels like swimming in soup. million new residents, a 20.3

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2024

The power of media, narrative story and the broader humanities have the capacity to convey stories through genres such as drama and comedy in compelling and accessible ways. by Adam Matthews It’s January 2024 and I am sitting down to write up my reflections on the SRHE Conference 2023.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The present is not good … Politically it’s horrible … All the hawks are screaming … —Toni Morrison, from a 2015 interview. As suggested in my last op-ed and implied in the epigraph for this one, it is, now, a time for urgency. While most target K-12 education, an increasing number concern colleges and universities.

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