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Dr. Ruth J. Simmons Takes Readers ‘Up Home’ in New Memoir

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Dr. Ruth J.

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VCU's canceled beer sheds light on licensing trend

Inside Higher Ed

Colleges have a history of licensing their mascots and logos—including, increasingly, to breweries, which can provide a helpful, if relatively small, revenue stream while also creating excitement around the institution’s brand and strengthening community partnerships. was paused after a few years.

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Employee retires after 70 years

Inside Higher Ed

“We’re talking about a person who, more than anyone else, is the thread that runs through the history of King since the middle of the last century,” President Alexander Whitaker said. “To have that history about the people, institutions and events right outside my door was phenomenal,” he said.

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Wildlife Biology Professor Weaves Indigenous Heritage into Lessons

Insight Into Diversity

Erim Gómez speaks about the negative effects of climate change at a rally against The Dakota Access Pipeline at Washington State University in 2017. He provides an authentic history of wildlife conservation in North America, educating students about such topics as the introduction of invasive species in the U.S.

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Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

Inside Higher Ed

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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Want a job at Cambridge?

SRHE

Under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017) institutions may set their own ‘criteria for the selection, appointment or dismissal of academic staff, or how they are applied’ (s. Titles, status, hierarchy and contracts all have their history and the University’s constitution plays a decisive part. 2(5)(d) and s.2 2 (8) (b) ii.).

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

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. Collage, Can-Do, Curiosity.