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What’s Really Wrong with the College Rankings

Inside Higher Ed

Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has written the best article that I’ve read on the recent decision by leading law schools to boycott the US News ratings. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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An Apology for the Liberal Arts

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Annabelle Hutchinson…is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance? Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . The addition of 54 new faculty from underrepresented groups means the university has its most diverse group of faculty in its 200-year history.

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

Presidents picking up at new schools John Nicklow While the jazz-playing Dr. Cole takes his talent to New Orleans, civil engineer Dr. John Nicklow is on his way out of The Big Easy to The Sunshine State. Nicklow’s extensive STEM research background is a sensible fit for the school on the “Space Coast.”

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President moves: Resignations and early retirements reigned in July

University Business

said Raymundo Arroyave, professor of Materials Science and Engineering, in a special Faculty Senate meeting. “I The decision follows stark disagreements with the Board of Regents on how to govern its law school after several longtime employees embezzled nearly a million dollars over several years, according to a school email.

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College 2023

Inside Higher Ed

I find it remarkable that leading law schools decided to attack the ranking system by denying U.S. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. The key levers, in my view, must come from outside individual campuses, since that may well be the only way to overcome institutional gridlock.

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Universities on Fire

HESA

So I’m thinking of examples of catastrophic cases like Pakistani campuses being underwater for most of last fall, or to go back in history, like what happened to Tulane after Hurricane Katrina. So for example, you know, just a drive to have more electrical engineering. It depends on part of the culture that you draw from.