Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 22, 2023

He called instead for a new man who was willing to accept pain and discipline and adopt a cold, detached outlook on human life. Pain, like loss, is one of the hallmarks of human existence. Pain is an essential part of the human experience. A chief justification for medically-assisted suicide is to relieve unnecessary suffering.

Humanities 84

Humanities History Organization Policy 84

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It’s an inspirational message from an inspirational woman who will go down in history as one of the most transformative leaders in higher education.

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Humanities History Higher Education Provost 131

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. Like my courses in the United States, I engaged my Qatari students in a critical history of the United States, one that centered the history of race.

Liberal Arts 104

Liberal Arts History Humanities Policy 104

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

In 2017, Walker was given Baylor’s Medal of Service for Contributions to the Professions, Christian Ministry. Walker would go on to serve the public as well, spending 32 years in California’s Department of Mental Health helping patients get assistance to transition back into jobs and the community. In memorializing my father, Rev.

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University History Humanities Department 105

SRHE

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

I’m also saying this as someone who’s curated several, including one on running as an arts and humanities discourse that a 2014 Guardian article said ‘other conferences could take a leaf out of’, for its 8-minute sprint formats and multi-modal approaches including film screening, meditation sessions and run-chats.

Arts And Sciences 98

Arts And Sciences Leadership Inclusivity Higher Education 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2024

Now, instead of regurgitating a number that will not be remembered one minute after it is spoken, the speaker is focusing on the relevance of the tower and its place in history. A point about human diversity might start with an image of a crowd, then of distinct individuals, then of a small number of individuals from different cultures.

Guidance 105

Guidance History Humanities Students 105

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

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. The 18th-century Jaquet-Droz automatamechanical dolls mimicking human actionsfurthered this vision (Riskin, 2016). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R.

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Community College Faculty Faculty Development College 86

SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

The Higher Education and Research Act of 2017 therefore includes what is now a considerable range of higher education providers in England, traditional Universities among them, but also hundreds of alternative providers. CUA traced its history back to the Meeting of University Academic Administrative Staff, founded in 1961.

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Administration Higher Education Leadership University Administration 59

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Dr. Paul Sniegowski Since his appointment as dean in 2017, Sniegowski has been responsible for the direction of Penn’s liberal arts undergraduate curricula, programs and students in academic departments and interdisciplinary programs across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Arts And Sciences 81

Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts Deans Advocate 81

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Hemispheric lateralization is clearly a misconception (Tyng et al, 2017). This does not suggest handholding, developing a psychic sense, or grade inflation.

College 116

College Humanities Postsecondary Education Higher Education 116

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2024

Now, instead of regurgitating a number that will not be remembered one minute after it is spoken, the speaker is focusing on the relevance of the tower and its place in history. A point about human diversity might start with an image of a crowd, then of distinct individuals, then of a small number of individuals from different cultures.

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Guidance History Humanities Students 96

SRHE

MARCH 7, 2025

Yet, as education policy from primary through to higher education continues not only to cut its emphasis on the humanities and creativity, but also eliminate arts and humanities departments altogether, higher education runs a profound risk of further alienating students from the benefits of creative thinking and artistic practice.

Humanities 40

Humanities Higher Education Department Schooling 40

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

civil rights history was made with the Brown v. Board was a “noble cause,” but America just didn't have the “fortitude and endurance" to make sure it actually manifested, said Dr. Stefan Bradley, the Charles Hamilton Houston '15 Professor of Black Studies and History at Amherst College. Seven decades ago, U.S. Dr. Ivory A.

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Education Facilities Schooling History 132

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. ” The Nature Human Behavior paper certainly isn’t the first to warn that that relatively little progress has been made on faculty diversity.

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Faculty Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Achievement 133

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

That was the first such dip since 2017, and experts said at the time that COVID-19 was probably a factor. Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent. In history, degrees conferred fell from 884 to 725. Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicators project at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, said the Ph.D.

Arts And Sciences 98

Arts And Sciences Computer Science Humanities Degree 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Now, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health is recognizing and honoring her with the 2023 ASPPH Early Career Teaching Excellence Award for her most recent work as a clinical associate professor at the Georgia State University School of Public Health, a role she has held since August 2017. “I Armstrong-Mensah holds a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As Christine Saxman and Shelly Tochluk point out on the blog Teaching While White , the Luskin Center for History and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, has a five-part rating system meant to help teachers and parents, among others, identify five stages of indoctrination into white nationalist thought.

College 113

College Higher Education History Humanities 113

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Hemispheric lateralization is clearly a misconception (Tyng et al, 2017). This does not suggest handholding, developing a psychic sense, or grade inflation.

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College Humanities Postsecondary Education Higher Education 98

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

” The database features dashboards with data on MSIs from 2017 to 2021, including information about how many institutions are eligible for MSI status and how many receive federal funding under each MSI category, and enrollment and graduation rates for different types of MSIs.

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Institution Department Of Education Department History 104

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

History chronicles moments where people pushed, pulled, shoved, harassed, bullied or beaten chose fighting over fleeing. The continuum ranges from stories of quiet personal rebellion to ones of explosive cultural and political movements changing the course of history. Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Nadler, Mei-Yan Lu and Michael T.

Humanities 75

Humanities History Organization Faculty 75

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. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

Arts And Sciences 64

Arts And Sciences Leadership Inclusivity History 64

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Black women doing what they love at higher education institutions with deep histories of racial injustice. But] I'm still human. The white supremacist-cis-hetero-patriarchal-capitalist society in which we live denies Black women their humanity. Stay demanding the respect your humanity deserves. Stay doing you.

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Higher Education Humanities Schooling Leadership 89

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Adding Layers With the foundation of a general education core in place, the Legislature turned its attention in 2017 to investing in a set of multi-institutional agreements in popular majors. This 30-credit block of courses satisfies most, if not all, general education requirements and went into effect in fall 2014. And improvement is needed.

Liberal Arts 75

Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Community College Humanities 75

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. It’s important to note that mindsets vary and humans are not always one or the other. Your content will be the driver for each of the principles. A fixed mindset does quite the opposite. Harper One.

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Engineering Model Dean Of Students Empower 124

Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

The AIHC was launched by Kent Smith in 2017. KCU faculty members joined the program that includes mentorship, case presentations, curriculum information, how to take a medical history, a suture clinic, and identity workshops. Everything is waiting to be discovered — whether in the earth, in the sky, or in nature.

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Medical School Arts And Sciences Engineering Computer Science 122

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Dervish has a history of troubling behavior. Patrick Prince, associate provost and head of threat assessment at USC since 2017, said this week that USC has made several other major changes since Tjan’s death. It’s managing them over the long run to ensure they don’t create a future risk.”

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Department Environment Faculty Dean Of Students 109

Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools. This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

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College Community College University Computer Science 76

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts claimed that 28 million Americans (two-thirds women) had read a poem in the last year and CNN proclaims that “Poetry is experiencing a new golden age,” one would have to have a heart of stone not to scoff.

Arts And Sciences 97

Arts And Sciences Schooling History Humanities 97

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. It’s important to note that mindsets vary and humans are not always one or the other. Your content will be the driver for each of the principles. A fixed mindset does quite the opposite. Harper One.

Engineering 98

Engineering Model Dean Of Students Empower 98

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JANUARY 19, 2024

In 2017, it would have been the Sonoma-Napa firestorm that hit Wine Country and burned 6,000 homes, and 42 people died. Dr. Vollendorf’s research focuses on the cultural history of women in Iberia and Latin America during the early modern period (1500-1700).

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Leadership Higher Education Equity Inclusivity 52

University Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

She served as White House deputy chief of staff under President Bill Clinton and the secretary of health and human services under Barack Obama’s administration. Burnett may loom as one of the most prominent figures in the University of Mobile’s 62-year history. Retiring Dr. Lonnie A. Dr. Lonnie A.

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Arts And Sciences Higher Education Administration Academia 52

The Student Affairs Collective

MAY 28, 2020

As a PhD student in History at my university, I feel like student affairs staff are often the ones who are running towards the crisis with life ring in hand, eager to help those in need. Before that, we were dealing with the Thomas Fire (Dec 2017) and Montecito Mudslide (Jan 2018).

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Deans Administration Dean Of Students Humanities 52

SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’.

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Allocate Higher Education Arts And Sciences Degree 52

The Committed Project

JUNE 8, 2017

I’m actually dreading being seen by another human being. She knew my history, but they didn’t. It looked like people were happy to be with each other. My hands start sweating, and my breathing gets more shallow. My hands begin to tremble. I know something’s happening, and no matter what I tell myself, I can’t stop it.

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History Humanities Students Higher Education 40

WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. A 2017 article in U.S. Cutting programs Some schools have chosen to cut programs as a way to shore up finances.

Arts And Sciences 52

Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts College University 52

WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. A 2017 article in U.S. Cutting programs Some schools have chosen to cut programs as a way to shore up finances.

Arts And Sciences 52

Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts College University 52

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

GPT is short for 'generative pre-training transformer,' derived from a 2017 paper called ' Attention Is All You Need ' from researchers at Google. Drew earned an AB in History and Literature from Harvard in 2005, and served as a board member for Cambridge School Volunteers from 2011-2013.

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Technology Higher Education Education Retention 52