Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

And so on … The other thing that keeps me up at night is that recurring dream where I need to take the final for a history class I didn’t realize I was registered for. My younger son studies engineering at a large public university; I’m a dean for liberal arts education at a midsize private university. Q: Your Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

alternatives to traditional lecture and seminar courses that involve more active, immersive, participatory, inquiry- and project-based and experiential learning. Supplement lecture courses and seminars with other learning experiences that feature active and experiential learning. coherent, integrated curricular pathways.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Put the words “universities are” into Google, Haski-Leventhal observes, and the search engine’s AI-powered auto-complete feature types in “dying,” “scams,” and “irrelevant in the digital age.” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Outmoded facilities are overloaded with lecture halls and small fixed-seat classrooms, plus a scattering of seminar rooms, and provide few spaces suitable for active or team-based or technology-enhanced learning. Probably not the multitiered auditorium nor the teacher focused, fixed desk classroom or even a seminar room.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. On the one hand, closures had a positive impact on energy usage. The class meets that need.

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Today's Learner

MAY 8, 2023

Mark Portelli, Release Engineering Manager at Cengage “I was an Electrical Engineering major and studied mostly Science and Math. ” Rebecca Ritchie, Career Sales Leader at Cengage They shape who we become “The most memorable class I took in college was on the History of New England. I’ve never forgotten him.”

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