HEPI

MAY 24, 2023

This blog is written by HEPI’s Bahram Bekhradnia, HEPI’s founder and President. And universities are especially likely to have Woke attitudes and to engage in Woke activity. What is it that Goodwin and others are objecting to?

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Edu Alliance Journal

JANUARY 27, 2025

January 27, 2025 It has been two years since I last wrote a blog post for the Edu Alliance Journal. During that time, I took on the role of President/CEO of the American Association of University Administrators (AAUA) and dedicated myself fully to the organization. Unfortunately, Urbana University didnt survive.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

By Naimat Zafary, a PhD researcher at the University of Sussex and a former Afghan Chevening Scholar. On paper I am a PhD student at the University of Sussex pursuing a thesis and playing my part in academic life. But I think also of my cousin; a third-year medical student, who has faced a blanket ban on women in universities.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Dr Blessing Marandure, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Fair Outcomes Champion on the Decolonising DMU Project at De Montfort University.

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Today's Learner

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. Professor Spielvogel has won five major university-wide teaching awards.

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Inside Higher Ed

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. I had embarked on a senior thesis on Jean Toomer, the recently reclaimed Harlem Renaissance poet and author.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Former University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) Chancellor Dr. Rebecca Blank died Feb. Dr. Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years.

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Today's Learner

JANUARY 31, 2025

The choices are endless Fast forward 30 years, and the same thing happens to me when Im selecting textbooks and primary sources for my United States history survey. There are so many amazing history textbooks. This new fifth edition of Major Problems in American History offers clear direction for students in various ways.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Jolanta Edwards , Director of Strategy at London Higher , and Susanna Kalitowski , Head of Policy at University Alliance. This summer we have been commemorating 75 years of the NHS, the first universal health system in the world to be available to all, free at the point of delivery.

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Today's Learner

MARCH 21, 2025

Music: A force for connection and change Music is our universal language and far beyond mere entertainment its greatest power lies in building community. 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.

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HEPI

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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HEPI

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This blog was co-authored by Martin Betts, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, Australia, and Co-founder of HEDx, Professor Ian Dunn, Provost of Coventry University and Chair of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE) , and Ceri Nursaw, CEO of NCEE.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps you’ve heard of the Kobayashi Maru scenario, a training exercise at Star Trek ’s Starfleet Academy. case in which a British court ordered the University of Bristol to pay damages after an undergraduate with severe anxiety ended her own life in 2018 just before an oral assessment.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.

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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

This blog is provided by Daniel Dipper who graduated from the University of Oxford in 2023, having been the first from his immediate family to go to university thanks to Zero Gravity, The Sutton Trust, and the Social Mobility Foundation. How could a degree in History and Politics be so useful in financial technology?

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HEPI

MAY 13, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Annabel Dukes, Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York. The humanities are the study of the arts, history, language, religion and philosophy. Humanities scholars are specialists at recovering that information. appeared first on HEPI.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Amira Campbell, President of the National Union of Students (NUS). Some readers of this blog may be unfamiliar with the way guarantor requirements discriminate against both these specific groups of students, and in fact, many renters residing here in the UK. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

BY RODOLFO ROSALES Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship recipients have formed a community in which we can share the products of our knowledge, our talents, our research, and our work in the arts, humanities, and sciences—along with many other intellectual accomplishments across the disciplines that have been significant in establishing our footprint (..)

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HEPI

DECEMBER 29, 2024

She previously completed a BA and an MPhil in English at the University of Cambridge and now works as a parliamentary researcher. As a recent graduate of Cambridge, where I spent four years, I understand the urge to herald its unique history and methods of teaching. Famke Veenstra-Ashmorewas an intern at HEPI in the summer of 2024.

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. This seems unlikely given we have more, rather than fewer, universities since Thrun spoke and given the work many institutions have been doing to deepen their local roots.

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

New GenAI content from leading universities Professor Jules White of Vanderbilt University, whos taught over 500,000 learners across 30+ courses , introduced innovative content on harnessing GenAI to automate tasks like meal planning and project management. Enroll here!

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin Published in May 2022 The core questions at the heart of much of the social sciences are about inequality. Might the ideas of what constitutes good institutions come from thinkers based at universities?

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Higher Ed Data Stories

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Hint: Regular readers of this blog will already know the answer. But the question--Why is there a University of North Carolina and a North Carolina State University--is a good one. Other states (Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota, among others) have one university that serves as both a land grant and a flagship.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? Writing as a relic of the 1960s, I ask, must we replicate within universities the status hierarchies that prevail in higher education as a whole? Today’s honors college is the product of a complex history. We might call these models Honors 1.0, Honors 2.0.

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HEPI

JUNE 20, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.

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HEPI

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. has to be a positive.

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HEPI

MARCH 2, 2023

Oxford is, according to some league tables, the best university in the world. By her account, it’s not necessarily the case that it has the best governance of any university in the world and it may be that the previous Vice-Chancellor agreed with her. Here Evans seizes her chance, using internal documents of the University.

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UW Presidential Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Throughout November, we take joy in honoring National Native American Heritage Month , a time to celebrate the many extraordinary accomplishments and contributions that Indigenous people and communities bring to our University and our world.

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ACPA

JANUARY 30, 2025

Laura Vaughn , Doctoral Student & Graduate Assistant – Florida State University Service to the International Community This award recognizes an individual for outstanding service to the international community.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Dr Adrian Gonzalez ( @AGonzalez05 ) Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Director of Learning and Teaching, Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. Table 1: Department of Environment and Geography, University of York fieldtrips up to 2022-2023 What does this total figure equate to?

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Coursera blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Failed searches for college presidents are now commonplace. Selingo argued persuasively that the exemplar for the contemporary university president is the corporate CEO, with all that implies. ” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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SRHE

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. The Oxford and Cambridge Universities Commission which framed the Act of 1923 recommended that the Registrars role be developed.

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Academe Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

POSTED BY THE AAUP The history of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) since its founding in 1915 has coincided with racial upheaval and transformation in the academy at large, from desegregation to current struggles for racial justice.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Annabelle Hutchinson…is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. She has a BA in Classics and Economics from Brown University and an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Oxford. What is the purpose of a university education?

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

This blog is in the form of an audio file by Nicole Cherruault, a journalist at The Times. Nicole holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in History and Politics and an MA in International Journalism from City, University of London. A full transcript is also provided below.

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Inside Higher Ed

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. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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