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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

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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With ChatGPT, we must teach students to be editors (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In a 2016 article about Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor to Ernest Hemingway, F. A college history professor declared she would have given what the program spat out in response to an exam prompt “ an F- if that’s possible.” They also know how to go about checking for accuracy in terms of both content and conventions.

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Toward a more inclusive peer-review process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. But I was impressed by how much you do in publishing to build up a book.”

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President moves: New hires, plus retiring leaders being lauded for their pandemic strategy

University Business

However, Riverso does have a background in developing young talent through academia. An avid professor, she taught history at Presbyterian and Mercer University while dean. His most distinguished accomplishment is his recent nine-year tenure as the president and CEO of STV Group Inc.,

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

In sum, we seem to be edging closer to repeating the history of rail privatisation. The Brexit referendum in 2016 gave us a new Prime Minister but by analogy suggested that parts of the HE establishment were ripe for change (No 25 Universities reel after Hexit vote ). Then academia could be a beautiful game. And more teaching.

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A Deeper Study of Higher Education Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

In academia, I've always been enamored with folks who can work the art of leadership in a really clear way, all kinds of models, all kinds of people who've inspired me to think, 'If I could just steal a little of that, a little of that.' He was inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association’s Hall of Fame in 2013.

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Digging Deeper

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kathleen Belew says she studies “the history of the present.” Put another way, she studies the history that shapes issues of the modern day. Belew is in her first year as an associate professor in the department of history at Northwestern University. The group was established amid the 2016 presidential election.

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