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Rhodes College Awarded $800,000 for Research on Racial Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. “We Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission.

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

Today's Learner

Duiker, author of Major Problems in World History, Volume I and Volume II , 1e 2025 Major Problems in World History,” 1e is a comprehensive source for documents and secondary essays dealing with a broad sweep of world history. Duiker is Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021.

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Women's colleges work to maintain their mission

Inside Higher Ed

McGuire was referring to the many changes the university, which was founded as a liberal arts college for women 125 years ago, has undergone in recent decades. “They don’t always self-identify, so adding these questions helps us document this information.

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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. This proposal might be called radically conservative in the sense that it is intended to conserve the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.

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President moves: Retiring leaders shine as they conclude 10+ years of service

University Business

While the report documenting Boer’s behavior noted that he did not engage in any sexually explicit communications or physical contact, the board described the conduct as “concerning,” according to a school statement. One of his first tasks will be helping raise money for a $25 million scholarship fund.

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

SRHE

Coming from a US liberal arts background, my initial mental image of a ‘campus’ is very different from the revised version that is in my mind’s eye after studying and working at universities in the UK. Julianne K Viola is a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship (CHERS).