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Iran forces dissenters out of universities

Inside Higher Ed

Meanwhile, the government is taking steps to install regime loyalists in the top ranks of academia, recently appointing the ultra-conservative cleric Abdolhossein Khosrowpanah as secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution—the body responsible for appointing university deans and heads of scholarly academies.

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When my (former) husband, a university dean, would accompany me to meetings, I still felt outnumbered and on the defense. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Even after getting my doctoral degree and could attend the meetings as ‘Dr. Imagine that. Dr. Donna Y.

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Harvard backtracks after allegedly shunning Israel critic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A Harvard University dean says he’s reversing course and offering a fellowship to Kenneth Roth, the former longtime Human Rights Watch executive director who said he was initially rejected over his criticism of Israel. Roth, whose Jewish father fled Nazi Germany as a boy, said Thursday he will accept the John F.