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“Too good to be true” – the young Africans receiving international scholarships

The PIE News

So when he received a fully-funded scholarship to study over 3,000 miles away at the University of Edinburgh, he couldn’t believe it – and, at first, his family didn’t. “My Ngwambe is one of the nearly 45,000 young Africans who has received a scholarship from the Mastercard Foundation. “I My mum thought it was a scam,” he laughs. “It

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Is Academic Scholarship Stagnating?

Inside Higher Ed

Not by admissions selectivity or even by their contribution to social mobility, but, rather, their impact on the growth of knowledge and technological and scientific advancement? Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements? Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What if we ranked universities not by inputs but by outputs?

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For four years, she served as program coordinator for University of Colorado Boulder’s Colorado Diversity Initiative in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). One is the anti-DEI push being made on the field, including book bans at the K-12 level and the targeting of student resources in higher education.

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

University Business

“No matter how much technology or machines integrate into our culture, we’re all human beings functioning with those machines,” says Jessica Hooten Wilson , the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University’s Seaver College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

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Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

What began in 1996 as an audacious attempt to archive and preserve the World Wide Web has grown into a vast library of books, musical recordings and television shows, all digitized and available online, with a mission to provide “universal access to all knowledge.” In The Librarian’s Book of Lists ( ALA, 2010 ), George M.

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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Fundamentally, I want my scholarship to matter to people's lives and to do that, it's really helpful if I don't lose sight of how people are living.” McMillan Cottom’s second book, THICK: And Other Essays, was published in 2019.

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Committing and Recommitting to Open

ACRLog

This semester I’ve had a few opportunities to think and talk through my librarian and pre-librarian work, and especially my commitment to open scholarship and teaching. In graduate school at New York University in the early 1990s, very little of the research and scholarship I needed access to was digital.