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Meet the Authors of New Titles in the Major Problems Anthology Series

Today's Learner

history, world history and western civilization. Spielvogel is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at The Pennsylvania State University. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history. in history, and M.A. in art history from The Pennsylvania State University.

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Lunchtime Reading: Communicating the value of higher education to government in a new political era

HEPI

When you ask the Department for Business and Trade about exports, higher education is clearly one sector where the British offer has the attention of the world. The Prime Minister will personally Chair new ‘mission boards’ to aid cross-department collaboration. We make our own history but not in the times of our own choosing.

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Two Calls to Defend Our Universities

Academe Blog

The government has deployed its Homeland Security Department ICE agents to baselessly revoke student visas in order to arrest and detain international students as punishment for exercising their First Amendment rights. Executive Orders and Dear Colleague letters seek to censor speech and mandate programming at publicly funded universities.

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Autonomy Scorecard

HESA

Not only does it use an active research program to back up it’s public affairs and government relations agendas, it actively tries to use comparative public policy analysis to help its members – who hail from over 40 countries – to pursue reform agendas in their respective states. So that’s the organizational part.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Public Affairs. 2017) For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Cornell University Press. Women and Higher Education in American History. and Kelly Nielson (2021) Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities Hampel, Robert L. American higher education: A history.

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Groups may sue over Biden's debt plan, but they need a plaintiff

Inside Higher Ed

The Biden administration released a legal memo from the Justice Department that outlines its authority to cancel student loan debt through powers listed in the HEROES Act of 2003. Legal action would potentially bring into question Biden’s use of executive authority, which is the first of its kind in history.

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Democratic Protests on Campus: Modeling the Better World We Seek (Annelise Orleck)

Higher Education Inquirer

Politicians heavily funded by Israel’s premier lobbying firm – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – are more than happy to conflate criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism. On May 2, the Los Angeles Police Department broke up an encampment of UCLA student protesters. Louis resulted in 100 arrests.

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