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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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Humanities majors should pay lower tuition (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Instead, American universities have adopted the expedient, but ultimately harmful, practice of keeping tuition fees for all liberal arts degrees essentially equal. What’s behind this decline? This practice, I would argue, amounts to a form of tuition mispricing both in the humanities and in other, well-remunerated fields.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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So Many Poohbahs! Poohbai? Poohbae?

Inside Higher Ed

(I took the term from Howard Cunningham’s fraternal lodge on Happy Days.) The ground rules were that the rule would be permanent, it would have to be public-spirited and making oneself Grand Poohbah for life would be cheating. Once again, my wise and worldly readers stepped up. So many poohbahs! I’m not sure what the plural should be.

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Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed podcast 254 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. R. Todd Benson

The Change Leader, Inc.

Learn how higher ed leaders can turn faculty survey data into strategy, improve shared governance, and increase retention and leadership trust. Faculty surveys are a familiar practice in higher education, but many institutions fall short when it comes to using that data to drive long-term change.

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