Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. You just can’t convince the American people of that.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: When Julianna Barnes set her sights on a career in academia, she envisioned eventually becoming a vice president of an institution and assumed it would be her pinnacle role in the profession.

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HEPI

MAY 27, 2024

The UK Government’s Green Jobs Taskforce highlights that it is essential for more young people to leave the education system with green skills in order to deliver on a green workforce transformation. Universities are also well-placed to deliver green skills courses to meet the upskilling needs of those already in the workplace.

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HEPI

MAY 19, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Winchester. My qualifications and publications may be evidence to the outside world that I belong in my position here in academia, but that’s very different to feeling I belong. I shouldn’t, but I do.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Passive teaching methods, such as rote-memorisation and large-format lectures still dominate academia, despite research calling for more appropriate ways of instruction. To develop the human skills sought after in the workplace, ‘ being and becoming’ need to be central tenets of a higher education system. How do we do this?

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ACPA

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

And instead, it’s really cool to be part of an office or a collective building or collective dean’s office that has folks who say, no, this could actually really help many people and we should create a larger resource that’s available to all students based on this one person’s questions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Khoury notes that 90% of individuals in academia, especially on residential campuses, lack certain skills that are necessary for adapting to new models of teaching and governance. Final Thoughts This episode shares straight talk about changes required to fix an outdated and struggling higher education system.

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