Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Bryan Alexander's Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis is among the most anticipated books of the coming year. While we wait for the March 28th, 2023 release date of Bryan's book, we can keep having the conversation (that Bryan is leading) on higher ed and climate change. What are you reading?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On the Other Side of Heaven – 1957 , a fiction piece, received recognition and praise and was later reprinted in the journal Reverie: Midwest African American Literature , in 2011. Entering higher ed and academia, she went on to earn a B.A. The prose was in English, and the dialogue was in Spanish. It just made sense to me.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Wang and his colleague surveyed more than 400 researchers who were approached for the program’s first four cohorts starting in 2011. The findings also suggest that, once they returned home, some YTT scientists struggled to “reintegrate into China’s academia,” causing their research output to slow down.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Corcoran won out against two other presidential prospects with extensive experience in academia. Beginning July 2024, Melissa Gillam will become Boston University’s first Black and female president as she reaches a new milestone in her career in higher education, championing student support and diversity.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The gap between higher education and the workplace will only widen should we overlook our role as educators in developing these personal skills in students. Passive teaching methods, such as rote-memorisation and large-format lectures still dominate academia, despite research calling for more appropriate ways of instruction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

Before 2011, Amy Chua would have described herself as a “mild mannered professor.” Chua, she says, was able to point out to Rabinovich that her curiosity and questions would be a good fit for academia. She was teaching law at Yale University and raising her two daughters. in history after graduating from Yale.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

The competitive landscape in higher education is pushing institutions to not just be another “plain vanilla” entity but to utilize their unique attributes to serve students effectively. Therefore, technology is playing an important role in addressing these broad megatrends and reshaping the landscape of higher education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In this podcast episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Director Camille Dumont of the Center for Career and Professional Development (CCPD) about how she aligned career services with academia at Post University to better prepare students for the workforce. Camille has been at Post University in a variety of capacities since 2011.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. 1930-2011) worked for the U.S. Derrick Albert Bell Jr.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. 1930-2011) worked for the U.S. Derrick Albert Bell Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

But I do believe that at a university that has emerged as a leading voice for free inquiry in higher education, faculty members and other powerful members of the university community should be responsible for advancing free and open debate by exposing our own viewpoints to opposing arguments, especially within the university community.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

billion from private equity billionaire John Doerr, the second-largest donation ever made to an institution of higher education. from Stanford in the 1980s and went on to become one of the leading scholars of climate science history, as well as a fierce advocate for the role of academia in advancing urgent climate solutions.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In Scotland, we had similar moments, especially after the 2011 Scottish Parliamentary elections. There were changes in the composition of university governing bodies through the Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Act 2016. Some of them are about funding, but most of them are not. This led to two major developments.

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SRHE

JULY 21, 2023

by Sam Elkington and Jill Dickinson Wednesday June 14 saw the second instalment of the SRHE ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposia series, delivered in partnership with series co-convenors Professor Sam Elkington and Dr. Jill Dickinson.

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