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WEEKEND READING: Matt Goodwin’s ‘Bad Education’ isn’t good scholarship, but does that matter?

HEPI

In my experience , and according to my research , minority groups are far from over-represented in senior levels of university management and governance, and board cultures tend to be driven by corporate principles, not woke ideologies. per cent of university events or speaker invitations were cancelled in 2021-22.

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Higher Education in Crisis: A Rapidly Shifting Landscape

Insight Into Diversity

Academia Needs to Defend Its Societal Value American universities are facing significant challenges, including threats to funding and internal issues like administrative overreach. Public reaction includes criticism of university management and government policies, with calls for a sustainable funding model.

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The Return of Bad Arguments for the Humanities

HESA

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). He then goes on to recite statistics about hundreds of program closures in the humanities right across the United States over the past decade.