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$100K Scholarship Could Become Issue in Mayoral Race

Inside Higher Ed

A scholarship worth nearly $100,000 could become an issue in the Los Angeles mayoral race, the Los Angeles Times reported. The scholarship was awarded by the University of Southern California to Representative Karen Bass for a master's degree in social work. The same scholarship was awarded to former L.A.

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$100K Scholarship Could Become Issue in Mayoral Race

Inside Higher Ed

A scholarship worth nearly $100,000 could become an issue in the Los Angeles mayoral race, the Los Angeles Times reported. The scholarship was awarded by the University of Southern California to Representative Karen Bass for a master's degree in social work. The same scholarship was awarded to former L.A. Hide by line?:

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Small College America – Profile College of Wooster

Edu Alliance Journal

March 3, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of the College of Wooster is the fourth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. This endowment supports scholarships, faculty positions, and various institutional initiatives, ensuring the college’s long-term financial health.

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Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Inside Higher Ed

That 2011 guidance enabled the emergence over the last decade of an entire industry of companies known as online program management firms, or OPMs. Those happened virtually on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, with several dozen speakers speeding through the allowed three-minute statements.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts. Brown, 2011, para. 2011, August).

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The dean had an envelope in his hand and gave it to me. “On Feb. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. percent between 2011 and 2021. Our data set includes information on hiring at 391 Ph.D.-granting granting universities. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8