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Oil money undermines academic autonomy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

billion gift to fund the Doerr School of Sustainability, its first new school in 70 years. That same month, Columbia University celebrated its Climate School’s first-ever graduating class. That is to say, the industry has mastered the art of exploiting universities’ credibility to serve its own interests.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

Faculty Focus

Ensuring a successful educational experience for our students is akin to the art of culinary development, where thoughtful preparation is fundamental. This parallels the concept of pre-courses, which serve as innovative ingredients and preparatory tools in the educational kitchen.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. They have proliferated in range and subject. The question is whether that affects their ‘value’.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

Faculty Focus

Ensuring a successful educational experience for our students is akin to the art of culinary development, where thoughtful preparation is fundamental. This parallels the concept of pre-courses, which serve as innovative ingredients and preparatory tools in the educational kitchen.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College.

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TGIF time-saver: VP hopeful Tim Walz and his promising track record on education

University Business

Walz, a classroom hero Walz began his working life after college as an international volunteer instructor and then returned to teach at a high school and coach football in his home state. ” As the governor of Minnesota since 2019, Walz has backed historic funding levels for K12 and higher education. .”

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Fighting on Three Fronts

Academe Blog

We can all think of dozens of such ads, and they need to include a defense of the humanities and the social sciences, too, no matter how much easier it is to sell medical and engineering research. The first is between institutions and MAGAs vandalism of higher education, the most acute threat. We also need 30-second TV ads, I think.