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Howard University Taps Antiracist Scholar Ibram X. Kendi to Head New Advanced Studies Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I have had my eye on the Mecca my entire career, studying its history and witnessing what Howard means to the culture. His earlier work, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America , won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was recently adapted into an Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary.

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New Study Reveals the Anti-CRT Agenda is Really about Denying Racism and Revising History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Further, the manner in which conservative media embraces the study gives a compelling glimpse at anti-CRT proponents’ operational definition of CRT. Rather, it is evidence that, maybe, more students are being exposed to an honest, non-propagandized version of race relationships and American history. Dr. Ivory A.

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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

Faculty Focus

For instance, students might apply principles of narrative analysis to make sense of a patients medical history in a clinical setting, or students might conduct a historical analysis on a textual document in an attempt to date it for a manuscript library. The ROI of a History Degree. References Association of Experiential Education.

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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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Can Art History Be Taught Without Someone Becoming Angry?

Inside Higher Ed

In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. ” All these responses and more have made me consider the question, “Can art be experienced or art history taught without someone becoming angry?” A chair isn’t art!” And vice versa.

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Flagships and Land Grants: What's the difference?

Higher Ed Data Stories

At least by my definition. But neither of those definitions would put the University of Virginia as the flagship in that state. So my definition of flagship is generally the university that carries the name "University of I understand some people disagree with this.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our American Indian students can still learn about their history, their language, their culture by the curriculum that we offer, and non-Native students can learn about American Indian people. “Some of our tagline is ‘We’re a union of cultures.’ That is something that identifies this institution for over 30 years.