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The University Business Podcast: Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa

University Business

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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Five ways my Humanities degree from a modern university has stood me in good stead

The PIE News

That means a lot of time thinking about, and implementing measures to support the international student experience and how we position the university in a crowded marketplace. Attending seminars has prepared me for work meetings. My performance in seminars was best when I had prepared. Here are a few snippets of them!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

Inside Higher Ed

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. million Andrew W.

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Can Public Universities Scale Honors-Like Experiences for a Larger Number of Undergraduates?

Inside Higher Ed

A special entity offering select undergraduates signature classes, early course registration and exclusive access to internships, research opportunities, social and cultural events, and small, discussion-based seminars. was inspired not by the Oxbridge tutorials but by Columbia University’s great books curriculum.

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Overwhelmed by complaints on campus? What 75+ cabinet leaders learned about responding to grievances on campus at EAB’s Compassionate Leadership Seminar

EAB

What 75+ cabinet leaders learned about responding to grievances on campus at EAB's Compassionate Leadership Seminar Over the past few months, over 75 college and university cabinet leaders have gone through EAB’s Compassionate Leadership Seminar. Megan Adams: First of all, who has been attending this seminar? MA: Really?

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SRHE Digital University: what’s on in 2023

SRHE

by Janja Komljenovic, Katy Jordan, and Jeremy Knox ( SRHE DU Network Co-Convenors) From 2023, the Digital University (DU) network is launching a new strategy to connect its members, collaborators, and friends. Janja Komljenovic is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Higher Education Research and Evaluation at Lancaster University in the UK.