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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. It's not always easy.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. Grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it expands on prior work (e.g., This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R. 2023; Topol, 2019).

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Honor and invest in Ukraine through scholarships (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

We educated our campus communities as to what is at stake in Ukraine, facilitated efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian citizens and offered scholarships for Ukrainians interested in pursuing higher education. According to economists, roughly three-quarters of the wealth of most countries is accounted for by human capital.

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University of Utah Prison Education Project Admits First Cohort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hollis Robbins UPEP’s inaugural cohort represents “a bold expression of University of Utah President Taylor Randall’s commitment to unsurpassed social impact in our state and region,” said Dr. Erin Castro, the associate dean and associate professor who co-founded the initiative with 12 undergraduate honors students in 2016.

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Africa-China HE engagement: a one-way road?

LSE Higher Education Blog

Since 2000 it has been structured as part of the Forum on China and Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) agreement which includes many different sectors, projects and partners including economy, trade, agriculture, human resource development, security and climate change among others.

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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. Grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it expands on prior work (e.g., This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R. 2023; Topol, 2019).