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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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HEPI

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Alice Pettigrew, a researcher at the Institute of Education, University of London. The letter’s signatories were far from alone in making such an appeal. Of course, this is a deeply contentious issue.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In response to recent data showing a worrying financial outlook for higher education institutions, Professor David Maguire, Vice-Chancellor at the University of East Anglia (UEA), and Dr Alex Bols, Chief of Staff at UEA, argue more Government action is needed to make the sector financially sustainable.

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UW Presidential Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Part of what makes Black history such a compelling lens is the bravery and tenacity with which Black Americans have persevered to overcome staggering obstacles and oppression that were — and are — built into our nation’s systems and structures from its founding and continue to be a source of systemic inequity today.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

and Vanderbilt University By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO Generative AI will unleash the next wave of innovation and productivity. As the fastest-growing technology in human history, it has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. Launch partners include Microsoft, Stanford Online, Google Cloud, AWS, DeepLearning.AI

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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

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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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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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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HEPI

JANUARY 7, 2025

Not for the first time, an interventionist Secretary of State stands ready to help English universities. Not surprisingly, every item in her agenda from regional engagement to business models will place conditions of wide-scale reform upon universities. As nations have found throughout history, autonomy is far from inalienable.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Professor James Ransom, Head of Research at the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). This blog is the fifth in our series on leadership in partnership with NCEE. At NCEE we surveyed higher education leaders and looked at the traits of effective university leaders.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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HEPI

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. Under HERA, powers to register ‘higher education providers’ and grant degree-awarding powers and university title passed to the Office for Students.

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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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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Sir Anthony Seldon was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Buckingham from 2015 to 2020. Universities have woken bolt upright to the fact that they can be, indeed must be, masters of their own futures. Everyone reading this blog knows that. Government now joined in the media and public game of university bashing.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

Nigel Thrift, The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities – The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick takes aim at research universities for being too big, too focused on students and too uninterested in grand ideas. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’

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HEPI

APRIL 27, 2023

This blog by HEPI Director , Nick Hillman, looks at two new books that touch upon higher education and ‘wokeness’, including Matthew Goodwin’s Voice, Values and Virtue. These are reserved for those who either haven’t been to university or who have dropped out of higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe. Consulting firms like McKinsey are part of the fabric of how university strategies are constructed. Published in October 2022. We read about McKinsey for research.

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2023

In the blog below, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, describes the opportunities and challenges this presents. According to the 2021 Census data, it has emerged as the first plural city in the UK where no ethnic group has a majority.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the years since Leon and Rosenzweig’s volume was published, history museums and historic sites have undergone a reckoning of, yes, historic proportions. To attract broader audiences, many history museums embraced emerging technologies, introducing orientation films, dramatic lighting, simulations and interactives.

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