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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Inside Higher Ed

In addition to tracing shifts in development and investment policies, Kimball and Iler make several important arguments that higher education faculty and policy makers ought to reckon with. granted, breadth of programs and funded research (which generally requires a medical school), plus success in revenue sports.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. The London Medical Schools were clamouring for that right for themselves.)

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

eLiterate

This denial of economic opportunity causes a well-intentioned policy to fail to live up to its economic and humanitarian aspirations. Mr. Hadhad was midway through medical school when he fled Syria. Here’s a guy who was halfway through medical school when he arrived. While the town is the home of St.

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Houston is the future; higher ed is stuck in past (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

” The unspoken objective was to demonstrate the value of a liberal arts education in a nation that Freedom House ranks 48th out of 100 (“partly free”) due to limited political rights and civil liberties. A pact for growth, allowing elite colleges “to coordinate their admissions policies.”

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TGIF time-saver: VP hopeful Tim Walz and his promising track record on education

University Business

But Walz is no stranger to America’s education system, having worked hands-on in classrooms and passed progressive policy measures in K12 and higher ed. 2 Performing Arts 65.9 3 Art History 62.3 5 Liberal Arts 56.7 7 Fine Arts 55.5 Read more in our latest coverage here. 4 Leisure and Hospitality 57.6

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Higher Education in Retreat (Gary Roth)

Higher Education Inquirer

Anti-affirmative action backlash took aim at the admissions policies at highly-competitive graduate programs, such as elite law and medical schools, and on prestigious scholarship programs. The backlash, in other words, concentrated on the byways that provided access into the upper levels of society.