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Olin College President Steps Down Amid Financial Strain, Latest in String of Higher Ed Leadership Exits

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Barabino, who made history in 2020 as the college's first Black woman president and second president overall, brought distinguished leadership to the science and engineering institution. Once known for its innovative tuition-free model, Olin College began scaling back its generous financial aid programs in 2010.

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Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2010, In 2010, the college converted its football field into a farm. Jakes Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, the first graduate program the school’s history. We believe this project will have a profound impact on student success and well-being, empowering them to focus on their education and future.”

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of López’s examinations centered on media representation of the DREAM Act of 2010. The other, she continues, has to do with the unilateral decision-making being done on what students can learn about their culture, history, and identity. She says she analyzed TV news coverage of the legislation in both Spanish and English.

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AHA: See textbooks, op-eds, gaming as historical scholarship

Inside Higher Ed

It’s a development historians say follows movement—particularly within the field of public history—toward broader recognition. ” He said he has seen “incremental” progress since a 2010 report. Smoak said their work as public historians “simply did not count for promotion and tenure.

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A brief history of the ‘honorific’ Oxbridge M.A. degree

HEPI

degree in Astronomy, Geometry, Metaphysics, History, Greek, Hebrew and Natural Philosophy. in 1793 to 1794 had resided for at least seven terms (there were in those days four terms per year) they tended to either hold college scholarships or be prospective clergymen preparing for ordination. The UK cannot afford to be left behind’. [36]

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Rutgers Webinar Discusses Health Equity, Minority Health, and Medical Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month. Sullivan discussed his latest book, We’ll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity, which chronicles the history and impacts of AMHPS.

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Wonders of the Invisible World

Inside Higher Ed

But history without theory is thin gruel, and social scientists like Brint and Labaree play a crucial role in identifying the conceptual issues that their historian counterparts at times downplay. The volume, like Professor Labaree’s entire body of scholarship is remarkably wide-ranging.

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