Robbins Revisited, revisited
Wonkhe
OCTOBER 20, 2023
On the tenth anniversary of David Willetts' 2013 Robbins Revisited report, David Kernohan wonders if it still stands up The post Robbins Revisited, revisited appeared first on Wonkhe.
Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur to Depart for American Museum of Natural History
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Sean Decatur will be stepping down from his current role at the end of 2022 to become president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in April 2023. Decatur Decatur has been the school’s president for almost a decade, his tenure having begun in 2013. Dr. Sean M.
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Remembering Dr. Willis Braswell Sheftall Jr.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Economic History. F rom 1999 to 2013, he was the chief academic officer at Morehouse and served as acting president in 2013. Born in in Macon, Georgia, Sheftall became known as an economist with a particular interest in the economics of higher education, local public finance, and U.S.
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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2024
In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. in history. “I He also leads work at Humanities Indicators and holds a Ph.D.
UNC Chancellor Dr. Kevin M. Guskiewicz Appointed President of Michigan State University
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2023
billion research enterprise; created a Campus Safety Commission; and appointed a special commission to look at the UNC’s history with race. In 2013, Time magazine named him one of 18 “innovators and problem-solvers that are inspiring change in America” in 2013.
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$150M Gift to Fund Stem Cell Research at UC San Diego
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
It is the largest single gift in the university’s history and builds upon a $100 million donation Sanford made in 2013. Denny Sanford has committed $150 million to the University of California, San Diego, to fund a new stem cell research institute.
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Study finds true faculty diversity is possible by 2050
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 6, 2022
percentage points each year on average between 2013 and 2020. ” Accounting for time to tenure, the researchers estimate that between 2013 and 2020, 45,309 Ph.D.s Another study from 2019 found faculty diversity increased very little nationwide from 2013 to 2017, with large research institutions showing the least progress of all.
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Dr. Carol Geary Schneider
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 22, 2022
She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a bachelor’s degree in history. in history from Harvard University. Department of Education, and the 2013 Boyer award from the National Association of Colleges and Universities. She studied at the University of London’s Institute for Historical Research and earned a Ph.D.
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After a Successful Tenure, Hauser Prepares to Pass the Torch
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 26, 2024
That’s how Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser became president of Colorado Mountain College (CMC) in 2013. When the job opened up, he nominated her for the role, and the rest is history. If you speak it into the world, it just might happen. She had once told the former president of Metro State University of Denver, Dr. Stephen M.
More than a Century of Black Girl Magic
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 17, 2023
When Cashawn Thompson coined the hashtag #BlackGirlMagic in 2013, she lovingly acknowledged the beauty, labor, daring, and complexity of Black girls and women. To thine own powers appeal,” the NTS operated from 1909-1961 and complemented its vocational curriculum with mandatory courses in Black history and the liberal arts.
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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. history survey course to be delivered in the summer.
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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 24, 2023
To refer to only the humanities “in free fall” since 2013 misreads longer-term trends and makes understanding impossible. I write as a professor emeritus of English and history, who was trained in the humanities and the social sciences in the 1970s. Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
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The Evolution of Compliance For State Authorization of Distance Education
WCET Frontiers
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Summary Releasing today, The History of State Authorization of Distance Education is an extensive review of the origins and evolution of state and federal oversight of consumer protection regulations in higher education. The History of State Authorization of Distance Education paper was commissioned by the State Authorization Network (SAN).
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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 13, 2023
With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Is this diversity newsletter?:
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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Students
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 17, 2024
History at UCLA. Specifically, it was a 2013 keynote speech that Cummings gave for the Black Policy Conference held at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. And I think these spaces that allow children to dream out loud, they’re just so important.”
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The contested rise of ‘institutional autonomy’
HEPI
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The history of ‘institutional autonomy’ The insistence on the importance of institutional autonomy has a long history. The second part will be published tomorrow.
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Leicester – A super diverse-city
HEPI
JANUARY 9, 2023
The Independent declared in 2013 that Leicester was the most multicultural city on the planet – so data a decade later showing Leicester to be the most plural city in the UK came as little surprise. It continues to flourish, promoting social justice and transforming lives.
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Growing college fair serves Native American students, shows a path to higher education
University Business
OCTOBER 22, 2024
The annual Native American College Fair brought in over 1,200 students from across Minnesota and surrounding states to the Minnesota History Center in St. The fair began in 2013, hosting around 50 students and families. Paul on Monday. Since then, it has grown into an event with over 40 colleges represented.
ELICOS facing highest visa rejection rate ever
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
.” Managing director of Lexis Education, Ian Pratt, said that the “ham-fisted and ill-considered ‘reforms’” are reminiscent of the last Labor government between 2007-2013. “It seems we’re off and running again. . So, it’s chaos.”
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Which Side Are You On?
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Labor activism has surged at universities since 2013, adding about 120 new faculty chapters. Perhaps most striking is the formation of 16 graduate student unions and a dozen for postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers between 2013 and 2019—a trend that has persisted since the pandemic struck. And why now?
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The Robbins Review – Lessons for the Future by Professor Huw Morris
HEPI
OCTOBER 22, 2023
As others have shown in the recent past, not least Nick Hillman in his article on the Anderson Report in 1960, many parts of this expansion were already in train (Hillman, 2013). 2022) The Puzzle of Lionel Robbins: How a Neoliberal Economist Expanded Public University Education in 1960s Britain, 20th Century British History , Vol.
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This controversial, for-profit college has received $1.6B in GI Bill funds, the most of any school
University Business
MARCH 22, 2023
The University of Phoenix has continued to receive more GI Bill funding than any other institution of higher learning, despite its history of government scrutiny for misleading military veterans. billion in GI Bill funds from 2013 to 2021 for students who enrolled in online and in-person classes.
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ESOS Bill branded Australia’s “biggest own goal” as submission window closes
The PIE News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Acknowledging its place as a smaller player in international education, one general aviation company that has been a registered training organisation since 2013, described in its submission the impact its indicative cap of just one student per year will have on its business.
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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
jules While the raison d’etre of the syllabi has gone unchanged, aspects of society have evolved, and we find ourselves in the middle of a racial awakening since 2013 and the rise of the global Black Lives Matter Movement. It is important to note that different types of colonialism are at play in different fields of study at any given time.
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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity and the Public Sphere (2013) and Golden Notes , a novel (2016). ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others). He “is the author of The C.S.
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Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our Stories
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 4, 2024
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on June 12, 2013 © Magna Publications. We make history as we move through it and that is the hope.’” All rights reserved. Here’s a great story. A graduate student is attending a lecture given by one of her intellectual heroes, the Brazilian educator and theorist Paulo Freire.
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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 27, 2023
University of La Verne President Dr. Devorah Lieberman is shown with graduating students in 2013. Lieberman is the 18th president of La Verne and the first woman to lead in the university’s history. In May, an unnamed donor committed to the largest gift in the history of the university, $18.1
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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture
SRHE
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
From Leonardo da Vinci (whose trans-disciplinary inventiveness was attributed to his ADHD) to bell hooks (whose professorial role drew on her activism and poetry practice), history has no lack of examples of how creative and neurodivergent processes have produced insights to catalyse social and culture change. Octopuses and Tentacles.
Customer Success Story: SUNY New Paltz
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MAY 3, 2023
Streamlining Professional Learning with SUNY New Paltz Anneliese Kniffin-Savchak joined SUNY New Paltz in 2013 to work in the Organizational Development and Training office of Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion. One thing Anneliese has appreciated about Professional Development and Learning is the course history.
Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our Stories
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 4, 2024
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on June 12, 2013 © Magna Publications. We make history as we move through it and that is the hope.’” All rights reserved. Here’s a great story. A graduate student is attending a lecture given by one of her intellectual heroes, the Brazilian educator and theorist Paulo Freire.
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Four elements of quality campus-based eating disorder treatment
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 6, 2023
And research suggests that the risk is only growing: one 2022 paper based on data from the Healthy Minds Study, a large annual survey of college students, found the prevalence of eating disorder risk increased significantly between 2013 and 2021—from 15 percent to 28 percent.
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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?
SRHE
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
It is well-established that neurocognitive variants like dyslexia, ADHD and autism are over-represented in the arts and culture (above 30%, eg RCA 2001 ; Bacon and Bennett (2013 ); Universal Music (2020 )). Universities, watch and learn. Yes it can be done. So, what does a symposium led by love look like in action?
Creating career-ready graduates
Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.
APRIL 4, 2022
LCCC’s history of serving the community stretches back to 1963 when the need was recognized for a local college to create higher education access and a bridge to gainful employment. In 2018, LCCC made history again as the first community college to deliver an applied bachelor’s degree in MEMS. Lorain County Community College.
Community in the Classroom
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Danielle De La Mare, a former educator, and the creator of the “Self-Compassionate Professor Podcast,” said in a recent interview that “we all deserve to take up space in the world” and that this space allows “for our own gifts to change other people, to impact the work in positive ways (Newbury, 2013).” August 23, 2013.
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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Norton ), cites a 2013 survey from the American Association of Colleges and Universities reporting that 74 percent of employers would recommend a good liberal education to students as the best way to prepare for today’s ever-changing global economy. Fareed Zakaria, in his 2015 work In Defense of a Liberal Education ( W.
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Higher Education Reading List
Susquehanna President's Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
History Kimball, Bruce A.: Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education , expanded edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2013. Whitsett, NC: Credo, 2013. It also lifts up best practices in pedagogy and curricula. New York: College Board, 1995.
Community in the Classroom
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Danielle De La Mare, a former educator, and the creator of the “Self-Compassionate Professor Podcast,” said in a recent interview that “we all deserve to take up space in the world” and that this space allows “for our own gifts to change other people, to impact the work in positive ways (Newbury, 2013).” August 23, 2013.
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How Digital Learning Can Expand Learner Pathways and Increase Enrollment
WCET Frontiers
AUGUST 10, 2023
My History with Online Courses Welcome to the third and final post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. In 2013, even the courses I traditionally taught on campus moved online when my family temporarily relocated abroad during my spouse’s sabbatical year.
Understanding Higher Education’s Enrollment Cliff, Trough and Recovery
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Hungry to learn, I attended the 2013 ACE annual conference. Look back twice as far as you look forward (Don’t use moments in history for support. I focused on learning about strategic planning—the mechanics, trends and prevalent goals of the day, such as sustainability and diversity. Forecast often).
Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 29, 2024
My history as a whole told me that I needed to be in a situation where, if I have the opportunity…to help other people realize their dreams without having to go through all that I went through to get there, then I needed to do that.” He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018.
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About Those Rankings
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Emory University (in 2012), Claremont McKenna College (the same year) and Tulane University (in 2013) have all been previously exposed. As IHE’s coverage notes, there is nothing new about schools getting caught gaming the ratings with incorrect data. News rankings may not be meaningless, but they are certainly without substance.
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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
He said the college’s innovative restructuring plan and progressive history drew him to the job. According to data from the nonprofit Law School Transparency , VLS welcomed a matriculating class of 212 first-year law students in 2010, but by 2013 that number had fallen to 129. Vermont Law School is no different.
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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 9, 2023
The rest is history. He became president of GateWay Community College in MCCCD in 2013. Despite other opportunities available to him, he decided to pursue a degree in mathematics secondary education. The district comprises 10 independently accredited colleges in Arizona serving over 94,000 students. There, Gonzales earned an Ed.D.
A Continued Commitment to Community
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 1, 2023
Due to the program’s success and the employment rates of students who participated in the translation certificate program, in 2013 additional faculty was hired, which allowed for the development of the interpreting certificate and the major in Spanish Translation and Interpreting. We know their intentions. We know their siblings.
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