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

Today's Learner

history, world history and western civilization. Spielvogel is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at The Pennsylvania State University. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history. in history, and M.A. in art history from The Pennsylvania State University.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

A month after she graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in history and global culture, she was hired by her alma mater to do just that. Student affairs administrators at UC Irvine used a one-time grant to create a new position for a food access and security coordinator.

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Record bond measures, higher ed policy on states' ballots

Inside Higher Ed

The ballot measure, known as Proposition 308 , is the result of years of grassroots organizing and backed by a broad coalition of business groups, politicians and immigration advocacy organizations. About 5 percent of the bond would go toward support services such as campus childcare.

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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. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Inquiring minds would like to know.

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Two Calls to Defend Our Universities

Academe Blog

The distinctive mission of the University is to serve society as a center of higher learning, providing long-term societal benefits through transmitting advanced knowledge, discovering new knowledge, and functioning as an active working repository of organized knowledge.

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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. The idea that any one student’s beliefs can trump the honest teaching of art history is a chilling idea indeed.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education. Public Affairs. 2017) For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Cornell University Press. Women and Higher Education in American History. Fast and Curious: A History of Shortcuts in American Education.

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