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Review of Peter Burke's "Ignorance: A Global History"

Inside Higher Ed

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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Building a stronger engineering community in Malaysia: The mission of the Board of Engineers Malaysia

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Building a stronger engineering community in Malaysia: The mission of the Board of Engineers Malaysia editor Wed, 04/26/2023 - 01:36 In Malaysia, the development of the nation's infrastructure and economy depends heavily on the engineering sector.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

Kelly Kang, who manages the survey for the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, said the pandemic indeed “appears to be one of the factors in a significant decline in the number of doctorate recipients in 2021.” Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

Inside Higher Ed

“Being in costume on campus as clowns was definitely a lesson learned— not effective.” To spur people to consider the “noise” of a denial-of-service attack, Tanner Upthegrove, a media engineer at Virginia Tech, created Tesseract , an immersive audio experience.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

TCUs have a unique mission, Youngbull said, to not only provide relevant degree programs to their learners but to revitalize and sustain their tribal cultures, history, and languages in a way that permeates into the community. The mission of TCUs is not to replicate settler colonialism, but to reflect and sustain a unique tribal identity.

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The Mindful Learning Framework

Faculty Focus

Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. Review the actual definition: The awareness that emerges through paying attention, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding experience moment by moment (Kabat-Zinn).

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

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An argumentative paper may begin with a definition. A history starts with the historical context necessary to understand the argument. And if the disjointed sentence happens to be a key sentence—like a definition or a thesis statement—the reader’s understanding could warp at precisely the wrong moment. A history of an idea.

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