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Why these leaders want to secure the liberal arts in a digital world

University Business

These developments have thrust some higher education leaders to defend the place the humanities hold in the halls of our most prestigious institutions. Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of melding often siloed disciplines of the humanities, arts and social sciences with STEM.

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The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Steven Dean Our tax laws remain outliers on race in their insistence on near total color-blindness. IRS employees are human. One of the few Black tax law professors at a top law school, Dorothy Brown, made a big splash a few years ago with her book, The Whiteness of Wealth. Precisely the opposite is true.

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A dean and her son experience community college (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Thanks to the learning management system grade book, he knew he had an A going into the final exam. Benton is dean of English and reading at Montgomery College, in Maryland, and an adjunct faculty member in George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Elizabeth M.

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Dr. Leah P. Hollis Appointed to Access, Equity, and Inclusion Post at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hollis will become associate dean for access, equity, and inclusion in the Penn State College of Education, effective Aug. I chose Penn State because of the dean and the wonderful colleagues I met during my visit,” Hollis said. “I Dr. Leah P. I see a true commitment to anti-racism and diversity and am thrilled to be part of that.

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East Tennessee State Professor Wins Social Science Scholar Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hicks is a tenured full professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at East Tennessee State University, where he has served as a dean for the Clemmer College of Education and Human Development.

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Pathways to professorship

HEPI

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Roger Watson, Academic Dean, School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China and outgoing President of the National Conference of University Professors. Pathways to professorship is a remarkable book. With two exceptions, these are all women.

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From tutor to teacher: how Illinois’s state tutoring program is building local pathways into teaching

Deans for Impact

I’m learning so much…about how to be a teacher,” says Camryn Swann, NIU senior and aspiring middle school humanities teacher. The post From tutor to teacher: how Illinois’s state tutoring program is building local pathways into teaching appeared first on Deans for Impact.

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