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100 years of social intelligence

Campus Sonar

It seems to me that social intelligenceby his definition, the ability to understand people and act wisely when interacting with them has been the third wheel to mechanical intelligence (understanding physical things) and abstract intelligence (understanding ideas) for the last century in higher education. I offer the following definitions.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. Those are the kinds of organizations that I do best in, and I regret that this was not one of them.” Deanships work when there is alignment between “all stakeholders,” she also said.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. there were protests on campus.

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Spring enrollment steady, just not for all institutions

Inside Higher Ed

percent, according to Clearinghouse data, and, over all, “I think stabilization is still pretty much where we are,” said Doug Shapiro, executive director of the organization's research center. It’s definitely moving in the right direction, but there’s a lot of ground to make up,” Fink said.

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How Two Colleges Are Responding to the Race-Conscious Admissions Ban

Insight Into Diversity

Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. It cuts to the core of our values and motives for doing equity work, work that is too often one step forward and three steps back, so it is definitely taking its toll.

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Why today’s universities need outside counsel for improved investigations

University Business

More from UB: Why liberal arts leaders should know STEM isn’t the enemy Universities under the microscope will undoubtedly need a multifaceted response to these diverse and unpredictable challenges. Each of these brings reputational risk for universities and has the potential to undermine confidence in university leadership.

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(Podcast) #22-How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education? Part I- With Hanna Lee

ACPA

For our new audience today, you should definitely check out Episodes 17 and 18. So in other words, students may find academic learning or communicating with administrators more and more boring and outdated if educational organization keep the way it is. Lixing Li 03:14 This is great, Hanna, you definitely have good points.