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AUGUST 13, 2024

The third type is the degree awarded by the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin, which are effectively honorific degrees. Teaching began to shift from the universities to the colleges. At Trinity College, Dublin, founded in 1592, the early M.A. Recipients have to be awarded a B.A.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

history, world history and western civilization. Spielvogel is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at The Pennsylvania State University. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history. in history, and M.A. in art history from The Pennsylvania State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I live my life according to a series of mantras. A second tradition, originally associated with Oxford and Cambridge, emphasized the transmission of culture and character development in a residential college setting. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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JUNE 19, 2024

The argument presented recently on this blog by representatives of Oxford University decrying the linkage of OA to the REF (which is now proposed to apply to long-form publications such as monographs and book chapters) touches on some valid questions about implementation, but we do not find their arguments convincing.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Certainly, K-12 education has the potential to play a key part in this work, but as a longtime college professor, I want to see colleges and universities take a more proactive role. Walmart in 2019, killing 23, were both recently enrolled college students. The perpetrator of the May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. ,

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APRIL 24, 2025

I wanted to take a moment to look back at the history of the projects. A Brief History of the WOW Awards In 2004, our then-Executive Director, Sally Johnstone, introduced the first annual WOW Awards: We started this new award to recognize outstanding efforts in implementing technology in higher education.

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APRIL 20, 2025

Archie Rankin is a History & Politics Student at Queen Mary University of London. The widening gender gap in college enrolment reveals a troubling trend: higher education is now facing what can be described as male flight. In 1979, only 200,000 more women attended college than men; by 2021, that number had surged to 3.1

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. In addition to these cuts, one lecturer was not reappointed.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has written the best article that I’ve read on the recent decision by leading law schools to boycott the US News ratings. College ratings take various forms.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Its a role music has played throughout history, from ancient traditions to the rise of modern media. Music is also fundamental to our personal histories. Back in college, when asked what music I liked, I answered with brutal honesty, even when it worked against me. Consider the early days of radio in the United States.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Hint: Regular readers of this blog will already know the answer. The prompt for this post is generated by friend and colleague Akil Bello, who, apparently while watching college football the weekend after thanksgiving, tweeted this question : The answer is multi-faceted and complex, and likely varies a lot between the states.

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Hanna Lee , Data Analyst – Cayuga Community College Graduate Student Excellence Award This award recognizes a graduate student who has demonstrated a passion for international education and advocates for international populations.

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DECEMBER 15, 2024

In our research at the Social Market Foundation, we found that adults who undertook a degree or diploma level course at a university or college saw their incomes rise by 10 percentage points more over five years on average than those who did not (25% vs 15%). But they need not be.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma NPR just pulled the plug on its once stunningly popular Invisibilia podcast, which explored “the invisible forces that shape human behavior.” Let’s begin with the history of American higher education. As Professor Labaree makes clear, this history is highly distinctive.

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OCTOBER 13, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Sarra Jenkins , Director of Future Pathways at Loughborough Grammar School. Sarra has previously blogged for HEPI on the topics of getting the best fit for students and supporting students to move into higher education. appeared first on HEPI.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Failed searches for college presidents are now commonplace. Given the pay, benefits and prestige, candidates for college presidencies aren’t in short supply. It’s exceedingly rare to see college presidents portrayed as visionaries, change agents or creative thinkers. First, vision.

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Thats when he discovered the Masters of Accounting (iMSA) at the University of Illinois Gies College of Business. The sheer awesomeness of it allthe phenomenal speakers, the alumni connections, and the history of the schoolwas incredible, he said.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Within the Jesuit tradition, there is a concept, “ cura personalis ,” which means to care for the whole person. After all, its roots are religious, and in a liberal society, isn’t there something intrusive and patronizing in imagining that colleges should help students mature?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Remember Bluto’s classic line in Animal House —“Christ. Seven years of college down the drain”? You’ve heard the arguments before, I suspect: “ College Doesn’t Need to Take Four Years.” ” College, say Wall Street Journal contributors Scott L.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The institution has a storied history. In New York City?

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Key Takeaways: AI empowers community colleges to personalize student engagement by tailoring resources and communication to diverse student preferences. Combining AI-driven insights with human empathy ensures ethical, accurate, and meaningful interactions that foster trust and improve the community college student experience.

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APRIL 10, 2025

Reading Time: 6 minutes Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background (current title, professional milestones, professional history, education, research works, hobbies, etc.) In 2001, I was hired as a full-time educator, Practicum Coordinator and Program Director at Century Community and Technical College in White Bear Lake, MN.

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Civics education is all the rage. There are a lot of disagreements, but certain goals are widely shared: To teach students about the history and the workings of the political, judicial and civil institutions upon which democratic self-government rests. But at the college level, we need to move up a notch.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Image: Prospective students be warned: not all college websites are what they say they are. That’s the message the North Carolina attorney general sent when he tweeted about the “so-called, unlicensed King’s College.” ” The site also links to LinkedIn pages, apparently to make the college seem more real.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Annabelle Hutchinson…is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance? Shribman was a recent graduate of Dartmouth College, a prestigious Ivy League college where he received a liberal arts education.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Observed on June 19, Juneteenth marks a significant moment in American history—the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in Texas in 1865. Colleges, like Wayne State University , organize art exhibitions that feature thought-provoking works by African American artists to explore African American culture, history and experiences.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Reading Time: 11 minutes A lot of thought goes into choosing a college or university, particularly as prospective students prepare to begin a new chapter in their lives. By understanding the top factors students consider when choosing a college, you can help your school develop a competitive advantage and attract new prospects. .

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Alice Pettigrew, a researcher at the Institute of Education, University of London. Indeed, as research by Kings College London reports , throughout 2020 and beyond, wider concern over representation of Britain’s colonial past became one of the key battlegrounds within national so-called ‘culture wars’.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? In 2021, Harvard University handed out 39 bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature, 118 in history, and 22 in philosophy.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Are you old enough to remember The Reader’s Diges t’s most popular feature: “The Most Unforgettable Character I Ever Met”? He was a history Ph.D. But let’s not forget: Many more people learn about art or history or nature or science outside of college than inside it.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The history of ‘institutional autonomy’ The insistence on the importance of institutional autonomy has a long history. The second part will be published tomorrow.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I have been fortunate to have a perch on which to write about a host of highly charged issues that matter a great deal to me. Of course, the entire AP-pre-college industry is problematic. Top colleges often ignore AP scores and require students to take a placement test.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. Today’s honors college is the product of a complex history. Honors 1.0.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I lost track of the number of times on Friday I heard someone use the word “refreshing.” ” The context was the “Bringing Community Back to Community Colleges” conference held at Bergen Community College last week. History: 3.6 Physics: 3.4

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MARCH 26, 2025

I’ve been teaching and learning the expansive subject of computer networking for more than 25 years at the community college level. Students can click the arrow at the top right of the screen and see the narrative history to better understand what occurred to get to this point in the packets journey.

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MARCH 19, 2025

by GR Evans This blog was first published in the Oxford Magazine No 475 (Eighth Week, Hilary term, 2025) and is reproduced here with permission of the author and the editor. CUA traced its history back to the Meeting of University Academic Administrative Staff, founded in 1961.

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