Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will host a series of events as part of its Third Annual Black History Month Festival this year. Black Resistance has taken many forms throughout history. The theme for this year is Black resistance. Then on Feb. And the Carter G.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A number of the book-besotted figures Denise Gigante portrays in Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America ( Yale University Press ) were fine with being called bibliomaniacs, though few were hoarders. But the distinction does not always hold—and anyway, insisting on it too much comes off as defensive.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Two new books model radically different ways of studying the past. By Jacob Mikanowski Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock images Two new books model radically different ways of studying the past.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. In the face of curriculum and book bans and the devaluing of Black history, it is imperative to amplify and uphold African American history.”

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 9, 2024

Two new books take very different approaches to the study of humanity's origins. By Jacob Mikanowski Justin Renteria for The Chronicle Two new books take very different approaches to the study of humanity's origins.

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ACRLog

APRIL 18, 2023

When I took over the class, I focused on recent examples of books that have been targeted by book challenges and bans, since that has been a relentless topic in the news. I selected most of my titles from the past few years of ALA’s Top 10 Most Challenged Books lists.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

So here we bring you a round up of just some of the books first published in 2022 which are worth a look. Peter Hitchens, A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System – This book is not primarily about higher education but is rather about selective schooling, which is a major feeder for selective universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. My generation of academics was the luckiest in history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

So, when it came time for him to pick an academic pursuit, the study of Latinos and sports history naturally came to mind. I just wanted to understand what [the history was] behind this,” says Burgos. “I Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But I want to talk about the war in the context of the final days of Black History Month, and the one historical story I love because it shows Black history is American history is Asian American history. It’s a history lesson and a humanity lesson, that’s always worth repeating. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

Free expression organization PEN America is suing Florida’s Escambia County School District and School Board, alleging that the district’s recent book bans areunconstitutional. Joining PEN are authors, parents, and the largest book publisher in the country: Penguin Random House.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma An unconscious ethnocentrism pervades the teaching of American history. When we teach history, we need to take perspectives and experiences that have been marginalized for far too long and bring them to center stage. In 1994, when the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

“Reed Books” has a nice ring to it, and it might help satisfy the bibliophile in me. Reed Books may thrive in some other universe, but not this one. I’ve been accumulating books for long enough that some of them have accrued meanings entirely separate from what they say. I mean, it could happen, right?

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

How's his book? How's his book? The journalist shaped the conversation around higher ed. By Len Gutkin Illustration by The Chronicle; photo by Mike Lang, USA Today Network The journalist shaped the conversation around higher ed.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Column: Intellectual Affairs Without making any claim to exhaustiveness, here is a brief survey of new and forthcoming books on information technology and digital media published by academic presses this fall. ” Finally, a book that considers the other AI in depth—ailurophile iconography, that is.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

A hugely present issue when I proposed the course in spring of 2022 was the resurgence of book bans occurring in schools and libraries around the country. Our class, “Banned Books and School Policy,” related to education, of course, but also touched on sociology, political science, history, English literature, religion, and public policy.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Although we’re living in a more progressive society, racial discrimination and inequality can be felt by people of colour in the UK to this very day, emphasising the importance of honouring Black History Month. . So, what is Black History Month and why should you care about it? . The importance of Black History Month.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

English professors don’t always have their nose in a book. Lueck is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition at Santa Clara and author of A Shared History: Writing in the High School, College, and University, 1856–1886 (SIU Press, 2020). In today’s Academic Minute, Santa Clara University’s Amy Lueck explains.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

I’m hearing rumbles of book clubbing. ” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. You will have to tell us how your book clubbing conversations go, but the likely answer is “not really.” Published in August of 2022. The answers to all these questions are “yes.”

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The nomination for Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week ago Hakim Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, has been shortlisted for a prestigious history writing prize.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

How the SAT Shaped College Admissions Liam Knox Mon, 09/16/2024 - 03:00 AM Author Nicholas Lemann discusses his new book on standardized testing and common misconceptions about the history and future of admissions exams. Byline(s) Liam Knox

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Margaree Seawright Crosby made history when she became the first African American woman professor to earn tenure at Clemson University’s College of Education. Jackson, selected a book and sat down to read it and was handcuffed and jailed by the local police. Crosby, who was 82, died last week.

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The Berkeley Blog

JUNE 21, 2024

Obasogie, a professor of law and bioethics, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Review of Books to launch a two-year, national conversation on the history of eugenics and the ways it still shapes science, medicine and technology. The post The legacy of eugenics appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has announced its Annual Black History luncheon and theme of African Americans and the Arts for 2024. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has announced its Annual Black History luncheon and theme of African Americans and the Arts for 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Marvin Dulaney The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is set to host its 109th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. It includes a plenary on “Place, Politics, and the Future of Black Pittsburgh History” on Sept. 28 plenary will examine how the arts have manifested in Hollywood and Black histories.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The book is divided across five major themes, and across these themes almost every aspect of the university function within society, obligations to staff and students, how history has shaped the sector today, and what things might look like into the future is covered. No aspect of this book will foster sympathy for university leaders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Academe Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

BY HANK REICHMAN Last week I was scheduled to participate in a Round Table discussion of a recently published book, Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History, edited by Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene, in a session sponsored by the Labor and Working Class History Association at the Organization of American… (..)

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The PIE News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Serious answer – Urdu because it’s got such a history and sounds royal. Book or podcast recommendation for others in the sector? ‘The courage to be disliked’ is one such book that I would recommend to others. If you could learn a language instantly, which would you pick and why?

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Philip Augar is a former banker and the author of several financial history books. This new arm’s-length government body will administer the growth and skills fund, a levy on large employers now extended to other forms of training as well as apprenticeships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The meaning, history and power of celebrity. One of the best books ever written about celebrity culture has a very evocative and apt title: Intimate Strangers. That title captures the paradoxical relationship that exists between celebrities and their audiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Both of my parents made their children aware of African history and geography when we were young,” reflects Brooks, during his most recent excursion to Kenya. Well, to my amazement, there was and is a very long-standing and pronounced African American presence throughout the history of Appalachia.” Those fears have faded. “I

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Developed in consultation with the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise Program will cover tuition, fees, housing, meals, books, and additional educational costs for undergraduates who are registered tribe members. “Frankly, it just felt like the right thing to do,” said Mnookin.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 28, 2024

Part one of a two-part virtual discussion about the new book Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (2024).

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