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University of Alabama debates general education curriculum, could wipe some English, humanities courses

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Students at the University of Alabama could soon be required to take fewer writing, humanities and history courses as faculty vote on a major change to general education requirements this week. Students also will no longer have to complete a foreign language requirement if they took similar courses in high school. Read more on AL.com.

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Educating the Next Generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Educating the Next Generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Grant Fuels Black Studies Faculty Expansion at the University of Rochester

Insight Into Diversity

Rochester’s Black studies program is designed to integrate various disciplines, including social sciences and humanities, to explore the historical, cultural, psychological, economic, and political aspects of people of African descent in the “Atlantic world,” which includes the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. “Our

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Uoffer Global and Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford collaborate to foster future Chinese leaders through MBA scholarships

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The scholarship will support two partial MBA scholarships each year for academic years 2025/26, 2026/27 and 2027/28. This educational cooperation enhances human resource quality and fosters coordinated economic and social development.

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Visual Documentation of the College Meltdown Needed

Higher Education Inquirer

Images of these closed schools can be used to document an important part of US higher education history. Some schools have been repurposed, others demolished, and others remain in disrepair--as ruins--and relics of a more humane (or at least more human) past. In 2025, UoPX will have just one campus, located in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Here are 5 keys for student success beyond high school

University Business

Recent history shows us that a concerted nationwide effort can improve students’ outcomes, such as the gains made in high school graduation rates over the past 20 years. More from UB : These schools made big moves in 2025 U.S. News rankings The data is clear: not enough students have the opportunity to take that step.