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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. Born in 1942, he was an aspirational child who had his life planned out long before high school.

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. Born in 1942, he was an aspirational child who had his life planned out long before high school.

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Presidents Under Pressure: What Higher Ed Can Learn from William C. Powers Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

2019; Havice & Williams, 2005; Hornak & Garza Mitchell, 2016; Martinez & Henkle, 2023; McNaughtan et al., 2019; Perrakis et al., While these trends paint a sobering picture for current leadership pipelines, history offers us a valuable example of presidential resilience under political pressure.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

1979/2019) The Credential Society. 2017) For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Cornell University Press. Women and Higher Education in American History. Fast and Curious: A History of Shortcuts in American Education. American higher education: A history. Princeton University Press.

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To ‘think like a lawyer’: some thoughts on the pedagogy of international law

SRHE

This approach allows law schools to teach practical skills without forcing an artificial separation between legal thought and legal action, following larger trends in pedagogical training outside legal academia. Paolo Amorosa is University Lecturer in International Law at the University of Helsinki.

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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself

Inside Higher Ed

South Royalton’s main claim to fame, however, is that it is home to the Green Mountain State’s only law school. Vermont Law School has doled out juris doctor degrees to students from across New England and beyond since 1972. Vermont Law School is no different. Interest in J.D.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. Geisler last summer.