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AI for everyone – but not everything

HEPI

As Eve Alcock, Director of Public Affairs at QAA, put it: ‘ Where there’s lack of clarity and uncertainty, student anxiety goes up enormously because they want to do what’s right. They want to engage in their assessments and their learning honestly.

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Record bond measures, higher ed policy on states' ballots

Inside Higher Ed

The money would go toward replacing or renovating 45 buildings built before or during the 1970s, improving campus infrastructure and upgrading technology, among other projects. “This is an important investment,” Chris Cervini, the vice chancellor of community and public affairs with ACCD, told the NPR station.

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

HEPI

We need to move more HE communications and public affairs away from the conference panel or Whitehall meeting room and into local business, hospitals, community groups, prisons, startups, factories or schools. We make our own history but not in the times of our own choosing. Didn’t expect to see us here? We need beauty.

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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

Given the opportunity, they will conduct the research leading to breakthroughs in science and technology, new treatments for disease, new forms of creative expression, and new insights about the world we inhabit. These graduates will be leading health care providers, educators, authors, entrepreneurs, and innovators.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

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. and Kelly Nielson (2021) Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities Hampel, Robert L. American higher education: A history.

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

Higher Education Inquirer

Dartmouth’s president is a director of the largest hedge fund on earth, headed by an Israeli tech guru and which invests heavily in Israeli technology. 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.

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