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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. They don’t want to hear it.”

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Discussion Topics for Book Clubbing ‘After the Ivory Tower Falls’

Inside Higher Ed

” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. Bunch’s thesis that the deep political and cultural divisions that increasingly define the US can be traced to failures of higher education around access, costs, debt, and relevance will make for a fascinating campus conversation.

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Study finds women college leaders of color face more bias

Inside Higher Ed

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. “Serving as chancellor was a natural progression, given my professional history,” she said.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

In sum, we seem to be edging closer to repeating the history of rail privatisation. It may not be Virgin territory, but is higher education on the right track?” (No By January 2019 we had resorted to more football analogies (No 35 Academia: the beautiful game? ): … m ore research is needed. No 13 On the right track? ).

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Autonomy Scorecard

HESA

In Europe there would be a number of countries where the system of promotion in tenure is actually inscribed in law. We have about half of our samples, our sample is 35 higher education systems. And while that system was famous for notions of Lernfreiheit and Lernfreiheit. Is that correct? So let me just end on this.

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Books Reviewed in 2022

Inside Higher Ed

Paul LeBlanc’s Highly Persuasive ‘Students First’ : How might we move to a higher education system based on learning rather than seat time? Bradford DeLong’s ‘Slouching Towards Utopia’ : An economic history of the long 20th century.

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Happy Fiftieth Anniversary: Pell Grant and Title IX

Susquehanna President's Blog

Throughout its history, the Pell Grant has provided a pathway to higher education for more than 80 million students nationwide. Employee Demographics: Like much of academia, early roles for women at Susquehanna were often relegated to administrative support and there were few to no women faculty or administrators.

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