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A brief history of the ‘honorific’ Oxbridge M.A. degree

HEPI

When is a degree not a degree? The Master of Arts degree could fit the description. The third type is the degree awarded by the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin, which are effectively honorific degrees. degree, which the M.A. degree will replace.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Now, that’s not all that abnormal for college boards to have people from the business world, religious institutions, or other things, sit on the board, and that often can be very healthy for an institution, but in this case, each one of these appointees are in facthighly ideological, highly political individuals.