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The Unbearable Weight of 1000 Days: Afghan girls and their Stolen Future 

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This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Naimat Zafary, a PhD researcher at the University of Sussex and a former Afghan Chevening Scholar. In 1893, for the first time in modern democratic history, women voted in the national elections in New Zealand. [1] Yet the arc of history does not always bend towards justice. 1] Fleming, A.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A.

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Whither the College or University Presidency

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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Failed searches for college presidents are now commonplace. That vision may be highly ambitious, for example, becoming a Tier 1 research institution and adding a medical school, or more focused: dramatically increasing the number of underrepresented students who enter STEM fields. First, vision.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

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This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The London Medical Schools were clamouring for that right for themselves.) These are studied within ‘Centres’ or ‘Clusters’ of related disciplines. appeared first on HEPI.

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The Post-Pandemic College Campus as a Design Challenge

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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I don’t know whether Outer Space is, as Star Trek tells us, the final frontier, but I know full well that physical space is among campus’ biggest sources of conflict. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. It’s a design challenge of the highest order.

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

” Vedder recently retired from Miami University, which had approximately the same number of students as Stanford – but Stanford as 10 times as many employees, even excluding its medical school. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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What Higher Education Can Learn from a Public Charity Hospital

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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma As psychological anthropologist Nat Kendall-Taylor recently noted , When the College Board revised the draft African American studies curriculum, it removed the word “systemic.” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Time is of the essence.