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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. is clearly growing. percent between 2011 and 2021.

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

Inside Higher Ed

In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” I’m going to hear about this.”

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it. This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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How do you start a new university?

LSE Higher Education Blog

As the university is reinvented by education entrepreneurs across the world, Bryan Penprase and Noah Pickus consider some of the tricky issues founders face, in this excerpt from The New Global Universities Higher education is a complex environment in which simple solutions often end up dashed on the rocks.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This marks an increase of more than 15,000 Asian people in the county since 2010. Jason Oliver Chang “The largest country-of-origin group in Connecticut are South Asians, predominantly from India,” says Chang, who identifies as white and Chinese American. More than 170,000 Asian people reside in the state of Connecticut, according to the U.S.

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Women's colleges work to maintain their mission

Inside Higher Ed

McGuire was referring to the many changes the university, which was founded as a liberal arts college for women 125 years ago, has undergone in recent decades. Trinity’s College of Arts & Sciences, the institution’s largest program, remains all women.) That’s not the case across the board, however.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. As I outlined recently in my “ e-Literate’s Changing Themes for Changing Times ” post, I am shifting my coverage somewhat. And as it turns out, I know and respect one of the authors.