Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. Draw attention to the virtues of human-written prose and prompt students to reflect on how their own cognitive processes surpass AI. Question How Writing Is Taught.

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2023

For a city that was once the richest in the UK and the second richest in Europe, and which had seen settlement by different people since pre-Roman times, Leicester has a history that is as economically rich as it is ethnically diverse. It continues to flourish, promoting social justice and transforming lives.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In a recent opinion essay in The New York Times , Molly Worthen, a University of North Carolina professor of religious and intellectual history, follows up an earlier defense of lectures (“Lecture Me, Really”) and the study of the Great Books (“Can I Go to Great Books Boot Camp?”), Here, I must firmly disagree.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9 , 58 [link]. This does not suggest handholding, developing a psychic sense, or grade inflation. References Ackerman, C.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9 , 58 [link]. This does not suggest handholding, developing a psychic sense, or grade inflation. References Ackerman, C.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Of course, the most important outgrowth of the financial crisis was to accelerate the shift away from traditional humanities fields toward STEM fields. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. In part because of the Great Recession, birth rates fell sharply, as did the number of high school graduates.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

DVM Scholars supports underrepresented, rural, and disadvantaged students through scholarship assistance and structured retention activities throughout their four-year curriculum. CEAT also hosts community council partnership meetings to address the disparity of STEM education in low-income areas.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers. To understand the potential role this model could play, we need to review a little history.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

history,” says Shelley Willingham, chief revenue officer with The Diversity Movement, a business consulting agency. “If If we’re not capable of reaching [and connecting with] that group, that’s putting companies and universities at a competitive disadvantage.” “Right now, we have the most diverse adult population in U.S.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The RAE Panels were made up of established academics in the relevant discipline and by the late 1990s there were complaints that this disadvantaged interdisciplinary researchers. In 2000 Cambridge set up an interdisciplinary Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Interdisciplinary research centres.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 28, 2025

Through a nine-volume book series, collaborative convenings, and a design-thinking model that centers human pain and potential, the ADI is reshaping legal education into something inclusive, accessible, and powerfully human. Designed for practical use, not just theory. Includes activities and reflection prompts in each chapter.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Me : Just visit a medical school and you’ll be amazed by how extensively these professional schools already make use of simulations including virtual cadavers, hearts, and brains as well as surgery simulators -- leaving those plastic toy human anatomy kits that children have played with in the dust. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. SRHE member GR Evans is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge. The Royal Society adopts the same wording.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 1, 2021

I mean, nothing like this has happened before, at least in sort of data tracking history. For instance, there are those that would say the practice can put certain groups of students at a disadvantage. I mean, how do you navigate that I guess is my question. Jimmy Jung: Two thoughts. You’re right. How do we offer this?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2023

During King's "I Have a Dream" speech delivered on the footsteps of the Lincoln Memorial, the iconic civil rights leader spoke of the history of slavery and racial discrimination, focusing on the economic disadvantages placed on Black Americans. The attendees gathered under trees to avoid the humidity and sweltering heat.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 21, 2021

And one thing about enrollment management, if you think about kind of the history of it, I would say that an enrollment management when it was admissions was highly relational. Because I think as humans that’s what we want. All of those are really important elements. What’s been your kind of experience? Mary Napier: Yeah.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Massey, an associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Binghamton University, a State University of New York (SUNY) institution, is leading research on the Gay Men’s Health Crisis History Project. Massey also co-facilitates the Binghamton Human Sexualities Lab with three colleagues.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Emerson further defined the duties of the scholar as: The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances… He is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature. We acknowledge this part of academic history every time we don these robes for formal events.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

“In a number of states in our country, there has been excessive political intrusion by public trustees into the work of universities, attempts to prescribe what books cannot be taught in courses, to insist on particular versions of American history,” he said. “So, So, it is not as simple as saying trustees need to assert themselves.

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