Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

“What is worth more,” asked one of the young militants, “art or life? Art or life? Weiss’s Why the Museum Matters ( Yale University Press ) and soon got mixed up with rumination on the book. Instead the emphasis is on the problems inherent in the mission and functioning of any sizable art museum.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” Retractions.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Instead of snapping selfies, a student makes a BookSnap by taking a photo of a passage from a book, article, or other source and adding images and text to interpret and reflect on what they read (Figure 1). Snapchat is probably the most popular social media app among those under 30. For one, learning retention.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Asking readers to imagine Islam anew, as a vast web of interconnected traces seen through the prism of time, the book opens with a networked table of contents. ” In recent years, Brown University Library has expanded its innovation in digital scholarship by pushing beyond the boundaries of the traditional printed monograph.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty. But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. " Sept. 2022), 16-26. 2022), 16-26.

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Coursera blog

MAY 2, 2024

For example, if you are a software developer working in the financial technology sector, your employer may not be open to funding an art history degree. They may, however, consider reimbursing you for master’s programs in cybersecurity, computer science, or related areas. Pick a relevant program and prepare a cost breakdown.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The reliance on traditional museum artifacts—letters, books, paintings and photographs—tended “to force historical material into certain conventional modes” of display that rendered visitors passive and unreflective.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Still, out of the many unforgettable characters I’ve had the enormous privilege of interacting with, one who stands out was the late Peter Marzio, who directed the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for nearly thirty years. Donors invariably took out their check books as he evangelized, drawing on his experience along his road to Damascus.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Ironically, it’s the essay’s major source of satire—the primacy of criticism over the art that it interprets and evaluates—that has, to a surprising extent, been realized. It should be read not only by the English professoriate, but by its counterparts in art and music history, history and philosophy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I intensely admire the objective: to provide accomplished, aspiring undergraduates the best that public higher education can offer—the small, rigorous classes and close personal interactions with faculty associated with liberal arts colleges and the resources and range of opportunities offered by comprehensive and research universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

His book sold, according to the last count that I saw, 353 copies. But most books of poetry by leading poets, with scant exceptions, sell fewer than 100 copies. My dormmate’s book only sold 11 copies before the prize announcement. I can still quote passages on demand.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

It felt … connective, hopeful, powerful,” says Megan Davis, U of I Art + Design program student and graduate research assistant. “A Final products will include a published book, a digital art exhibit, essays and other writings, and visual artwork. It was really moving to see.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

” The result: To discourage students from learning and thinking “critically about the connection between the design of our institutions and the uneven way in which opportunity and resources are meted out in America.” Case in point: Healthcare. Black babies die at twice the rate of white babies. Why is this the case?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size? ” Wait a second.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Limerick is well-known for helping usher in a new era of interest in the American West and reframing narratives about it via her books, including The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, and her public engagement. The committee members also expressed concerns about lack of due process for Limerick.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence. A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence. At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race.

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Ruth Arnold , Director of External Affairs at Study Group. And so it is decided. After weeks of debates and polls, elephant traps and memes, the election is over. Labour wins a majority of 172 seats and shows assurance as it takes the reins of government. It’s been a long wait. No contest.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. I still vividly recall C. This turned into an ongoing debate.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. WVWC is a quintessential small liberal arts college with a population of 1,100 students and a beautiful campus nestled in the heart of central West Virginia. The news has not been good.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

” The 2016 presidential campaign touched off an explosion of books and articles on disinformation, as well as widespread calls to combat misinformation and the supposedly growing contempt for verified facts in today’s posttruth moment. Much of what people claim to know rests on trust and deference.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. When students are actively engaged, they have a tendency to perform better and retain information more efficiently. Signaling is the use of on-screen text or symbols to emphasize vital information (i.e.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

” Mastery of such vocational fields as physical therapy, accounting, marketing, hospitality management and culinary arts ought not “require a uniform four-year program,” the authors claim. Wrote one, “Electives help round out a personal’s exposure to the arts, sciences, etc.,

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In a recent opinion essay in The New York Times , Molly Worthen, a University of North Carolina professor of religious and intellectual history, follows up an earlier defense of lectures (“Lecture Me, Really”) and the study of the Great Books (“Can I Go to Great Books Boot Camp?”), Right on, I say.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A majority of LLCs are centered around academics: prehealth, engineering, business, honors , ROTC or music and performing arts. Called Women in Math, Science and Engineering (WIMSE) and housed at Cawthon Hall, the LLC promotes women’s success in STEM. colleges as innovative examples of creating community in residential living.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! As I viewed and reviewed the drawings that appeared in the newspaper, I learned about a great many jaw-dropping oddities. What you propose is without precedent and therefore dicey. Your ideas may be good in theory, but will be bad in practice.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. Craft also helped establish a diversity office and oversaw the creation or revitalization of the college’s teaching, learning and recreational facilities, as well as centers for integrated science and student success.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. When students are actively engaged, they have a tendency to perform better and retain information more efficiently. Signaling is the use of on-screen text or symbols to emphasize vital information (i.e.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As the noted legal commentator who goes under the banner of Unemployed Northeastern puts it: “Some states are busy banning books, other states are busy educating students. Those comments deserve a detailed response. As some of my correspondents have pointed out: 1. Indeed, they are more segregated today than in the late 1960s.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The application suggested topics as well as books and articles that I hadn’t thought of. It really will make my courses – one on the history of childhood, the other on museums, past, present, and future -- better. I found the results thought-provoking. ” Again, not bad. Impressive.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

I may read fewer novels than when I was younger, but I read much more non-fiction: a seemingly unending torrent of books and articles, editorials, essays, social commentary, blog postings, tweets, and other long and short-form texts. But of all the articles I recently read, two stand out, and both share a common theme: The power of purpose.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

The questions raised by violence are often addressed by courses in fields such as gender studies, but I am arguing they are also the province of the arts, the humanities and the social sciences more broadly. I make this claim well aware of the vast differences between most U.S. Will they do nothing, stay and fight, or leave?

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