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Oil money undermines academic autonomy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

An often-underappreciated component of this strategy has been the industry’s rise as a key funder of climate-related research and scholarship worldwide. Sometimes, fossil fuel companies’ routes of influence on scholarship can be very direct. Far more common, however, is influence by more subtle routes.

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The Best Teaching Advice I Have Received

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on December 16, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! What makes some teachers more effective than others? Hey, it’s okay!

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This year, it launched a new center and program to address the acute need for culturally diverse and responsive health professionals: the Health Professions Center and its signature program, the Martin Delany-Pan African Studies Pathway to Medical School Program. . to offer scholarships to DACA students.

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The Best Teaching Advice I Have Received

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on December 16, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! What makes some teachers more effective than others? Hey, it’s okay!

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

University Business

” As the governor of Minnesota since 2019, Walz has backed historic funding levels for K12 and higher education. In the postsecondary realm, Walz approved a $650 million budget, which ignited a last-dollar scholarship program last year affording tuition-free schooling to state residents.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Still University of Graduate Health Studies (ATSU) is a founding partner of the Academic Medicine Consortium of Arizona, a group of medical schools that collaborate to identify and nurture students toward academic medicine. Engaging Middle Schoolers in Health Professions — Michigan Medicine University of Michigan Medical School.

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Fighting on Three Fronts

Academe Blog

“Cuts in funding,’ the report explained, have led to greater reliance on private support, which has augmented the role of wealthy donors, who may seek to restrict or direct scholarship in service of ideology or interest. His book, The Future of Academic Freedom , based in part on posts to this blog, was published in 2019.