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Lunchtime Reading: Communicating the value of higher education to government in a new political era

HEPI

Then of course there are ‘events’ which can swipe an administration from the side like an unexpected storm. For higher education, a political affairs reset began long before the polls concluded. Conference speaker invitations and parliamentary events were used to facilitate relationships and a recognition of key issues.

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Museums and College Campuses as Community Hubs and Cultural Centers

Inside Higher Ed

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Offer more community-serving events. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Two Calls to Defend Our Universities

Academe Blog

While current events may seem shockingly unprecedented, there are historical parallels. So far, these events have happened in relative isolation, with little communication and coordinated response across affected or soon-to-be-affected institutions. From these we learn that the future is contingent upon how we respond now.

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Students Increasingly Don’t Remember the 9/11 Attacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, who was vice president of government relations and public affairs for New York University (NYU) on that day, climbed to the roof of Bobst Library when she heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. For them, 9/11 is a historical event, little different from Pearl Harbor. But some aspects of 9/11 are indelible.

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Hamline reviews policies that set off academic freedom dispute

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. Recent events have required us to look deeply into our values. In fact, they still can.” ” Other Points of View.

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Democratic Protests on Campus: Modeling the Better World We Seek (Annelise Orleck)

Higher Education Inquirer

Politicians heavily funded by Israel’s premier lobbying firm – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – are more than happy to conflate criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism. ACLED (the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project) found that 97.4% as they rile up voters in the 2024 election cycle.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.” The public will have an opportunity at that stage to provide another round of input by commenting on those proposed rules.” Harvard’s first Black president Dr. Claudine Gay broke new ground in July and made history at the nation’s oldest higher ed institution.