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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste After a tough love encounter with science and biology courses, she realized the medical field wasnt her calling. Her pivot from medical school aspirations to a career in health education is now a lesson she shares with young people: life is a journey, not a checklist.

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Oil money undermines academic autonomy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

But if top universities genuinely want to lead, a key roadblock remains: around the nation and the world, leading institutions are structurally unprepared for the fossil fuel industry’s assault on the interests and values of academia. Academia is founded on the premise of truth seeking. Real disclosure is a start.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Throughout 2022, Ball State University has made significant progress on its five-year Inclusive Excellence Plan, which aims to advance broad DEI goals across the university, including campus culture, policies and infrastructure, and recruitment and retention. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York.

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(Podcast) #28- Importance of collaborative effort in supporting international students with Wendy, Cassie and Danielle

ACPA

You’d be surprised that so many organizations do not know policies related to hiring international candidates. And also, I think the reality of academia. And same thing for like the medical school or the school of engineering or the school of management or a business school.

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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

eLiterate

This denial of economic opportunity causes a well-intentioned policy to fail to live up to its economic and humanitarian aspirations. Mr. Hadhad was midway through medical school when he fled Syria. Here’s a guy who was halfway through medical school when he arrived. While the town is the home of St.

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Making Fourth Generation Universities intentional: sounds good but what does it mean? 

HEPI

One former head of a medical school said that he had never been asked what society needed of his institution. Cybersecurity and defence projects which bring together industry and academia, often from multiple institutions, are in ever-increasing demand.

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In a nutshell: Trump’s 5 executive orders targeting higher education

University Business

More from UB: The latest leaders criticizing Trump’s strategy on antisemitism The order also directs the “Attorney General and Secretary of Education to investigate and take action to terminate unlawful discrimination by American higher education institutions, including law schools and medical schools.”