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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

But growth in doctorates awarded is not uniform across areas of study: education and humanities disciplines are experiencing a decline in doctorates awarded, while the number of engineering and agricultural science doctorates grew by more than 30 percent over 10 years. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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How do you start a new university?

LSE Higher Education Blog

To what degree are these new start-ups reflections of a distinctly American approach to the liberal arts, and to what degree do they reflect local traditions and aspirations? The 2020 policy document validated the liberal arts approach within Indian education and urged its broader implementation across the country.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Dannels found that in engineering firms, professionals value communicators who can translate technical jargon to nonspecialists, an essential skill given the growth of cross-sector team projects in the field. Additionally, as strong advocates of the liberal arts tradition, we contend that this core strength of U.S.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

At the same time, it’s worth acknowledging that the document contains some tensions and elisions that are typical of such endeavors. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. Rather, it is a thought piece and discussion starter.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

That vocabulary must be challenging, so that it provokes new thinking, but it must not be overly technical or oriented towards engineering or architectural concerns. We need to build a vocabulary that helps people to discuss the roles of space in practice. What stories can be told of prior students? Julianne : It has!

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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.

And what is most striking about New College is that, as you say, this board engineered coup, if you will, or some have called it a hostile takeover, has allowed the Governor to use New College as the model for what he and his minions would like to see all of higher education become. [00:13:36] gender studies being one of them. [00:18:47]