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Delivering civic value to communities – the impact of UK universities’ social science research

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr. Ed Bridges , Head of Policy & Public Affairs at the Academy of Social Sciences. UK universities have increasingly had to speak the language of ‘impact’, which has become another addition to the sector’s lexicon of buzzwords.

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A sectorwide approach to higher ed's future (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Individual universities cannot be all things to all people and should not rely on small changes at the margins with the hope of squeezing out incremental gains. For example, AU partnered with Martha’s Table and Trinity Washington University on an early childhood education program that meets a new Washington, D.C.,

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Two Tri-C professors sue administrators for retaliation

Inside Higher Ed

Franks in 2014, affirm that “public employees do not surrender their constitutional right to free speech by virtue of being public employees” as long as it’s not a part of their regular job duties on behalf of their employer. He added that a pair of U.S. Supreme Court cases, Garcetti v.

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

University of Arkansas enrollment is booming,” Charles Robinson, interim chancellor at Arkansas, said of the university’s preliminary numbers in a press release. Grawe, the author of Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education and The Agile College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018 and 2021 ).

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Wellesley students want trans men to be allowed to enroll

Inside Higher Ed

" Presently, the university accepts some trans students: specifically, it welcomes trans women and nonbinary students who were assigned female at birth, according to its gender policy. ” It is unclear what the author’s relationship to the university is.

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Most U.S. adults against banning race-based admissions, poll

University Business

Supreme Court is set to rule on two cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina in June which will decide the fate of affirmative action in higher education. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research concluded from its May polling that 63% of U.S. adults believe the U.S. The post Most U.S.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Presented with two cases about race-conscious admissions – one regarding the University of North Carolina and the other involving Harvard University — the conservative-leaning court ruled along partisan lines that the two schools’ affirmative action programs violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. I love this place.