higher education

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/14/2020
  

  What's At Stake for Higher Ed in the Election?

  Nathan D.B. Connolly and Harvey Kaye are among scholars asked to explain the stakes of the election for higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  10/8/2020
  

  Two Visions of Higher Education Illuminate the Chasm between Harris and Pence

  by Marybeth Gasman and Adam Laats

  The Vice Presidential candidates' university affiliations--Harris's attendance at Howard and membership in a prominent Black sorority, and Pence's political affinity for Liberty University--show that both HBCUs and Evangelical colleges are important and politically significant parts of the American higher education system.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/2/2020
  

  Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice

  by Michael J. Sandel

  Joe Biden has a secret weapon in his bid for the presidency: He is the first Democratic nominee in 36 years without a degree from an Ivy League university. His campaign may test the pervasive belief that elite academic credentials are a necessity to govern.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/26/2020
  

  Will Covid-19 Revive Faculty Power?

  Will the COVID crisis be the moment that seals the power of trustees, donors and administrators over universities organized like corporations, or will faculty organize to reassert shared governance?

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  8/24/2020
  

  What Is College For?

  by Steven Mintz

  Two new books argue for a robust and engaged humanistic study as indispensable to higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/27/2020
  

  Will Universities Listen to Students About how to End Systemic Racism?

  by Matthew Johnson

  The real story is one of powerful resistance to protest. Universities have shown a deft ability to make reforms that still preserve inequality and exploitation in the face of well-organized student movements.

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• SOURCE: American Prospect
  7/23/2020
  

  Back to School

  by François Furstenberg

  It’s not that university leaders necessarily want to open their campuses with new outbreaks looming in the fall. It’s that their business model leaves them no alternative.

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  7/15/2020
  

  Student Visas (Past Present Podcast, Episode 237)

  The Past Present podcast discusses the recent restrictions on student visas.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  7/8/2020
  

  The Campus Confederate Legacy We’re Not Talking About

  by Taulby Edmondson

  When a fraternity chapter sued him for defamation for remarking that it actively preserved the "Lost Cause" mythology of the Confederacy, the author went to the archives to defend himself. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/1/2020
  

  As Young People Drive Infection Spikes, College Faculty Members Fight For The Right To Teach Remotely

  Many schools are giving students the option to take classes remotely while expecting faculty to teach classes in person.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/19/2020
  

  How to Stop the Cuts

  by Sara Matthiesen

  Historians and other faculty who want to protect their disciplines and their colleagues from budget cuts need to develop maps of power and how it operates in a university.

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• SOURCE: Oxford University Press Blog
  6/17/2020
  

  Black Studies For Everyone

  by Armond R. Towns

  Ongoing protest movements demonstrate that Black Studies is for everybody. The question is: how long will it take for higher education to catch up to such a realization?

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/8/2020
  

  Hundreds of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Face Losing Their Jobs. Their Students Are Upset.

  One Harvard student says that these faculty members "help us grow as people, as thinkers, as learners" and are "integral" to their education.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/5/2020
  

  The Only Way to Save Higher Education Is to Make It Free

  by Claire Bond Potter

  College was already a financial house of cards. Then coronavirus hit.

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• 6/7/2020
  

  The Decline of the Humanities and the Bleach-Drinking Epidemic

  by Lior Sternfeld and Mana Kia

  When Donald Trump hinted that injecting "disinfectants" could cure COVID-19, he was displaying a lack of critical thinking skill that is endemic in a society where learning is valued only in economic, rather than civic, terms.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  6/3/2020
  

  Remote Reflections: Learning in the Time of Corona

  by Sarah Shurts

  Sometimes it is not a matter of making the past more engaging for students, it is a matter of engaging ourselves in the present lives of our students.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/1/2020
  

  ‘The Merit Myth’

  Anthony P. Carnevale, one of the authors of 'The Merit Myth," discusses his new book about how colleges admit and serve students.

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Stop the Machine: Why We Should Resist Online Learning

  by Jonathan Rose

  A history professor argues that, even given the risks of COVID, the intellectual and social missions of higher education will be crippled if in-person education isn't resumed soon. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/4/2020
  

  How the Coronavirus Will — or Should — Transform Graduate Education

  by Dennis M. Hogan and Rithika Ramamurthy

  The polite fiction of graduate school as an apprenticeship for a future academic career, which has been under strain for many years, now faces obliteration.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/5/2020
  

  The ‘Public’ in Public College Could Be Endangered

  State legislatures are likely to respond to falling tax revenues by slashing budgets for public colleges and universities.