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Legends Henry and Shirley Frye Honored with Renaming of A&T Building

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bluford Library Archives at A&T. Supreme Court, in 1983, and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, in 1999, before retiring in 2001. The Fryes — who met as undergraduates at A&T and married Aug. 25, 1956 — have donated their personal archives (professional documents and artifacts) to the F.D. The Justice Henry E.

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Students Increasingly Don’t Remember the 9/11 Attacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, who was vice president of government relations and public affairs for New York University (NYU) on that day, climbed to the roof of Bobst Library when she heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. College seniors were born in the fall of 2001. But some aspects of 9/11 are indelible.

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4 Online Teaching Strategies To Promote Collaboration and Community

The Scholarly Teacher

Kagan (2001) suggests that strategies like this promote both social interaction and accountability in any learning environment. Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 10(3–4), 137– 173. Students construct a written or oral response in the format or mode directed by the instructor. References: Buck, S.

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Famous Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges

Great College Advice

first female on the biology faculty NOTABLE ALUMNI of BOWDOIN COLLEGE, Brunswick, ME William Cohen, Class of 1962, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration 1997-2001 NOTABLE ALUMNI of BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, Lewisburg, PA Kenneth Langone, the CEO of Home Depot NOTABLE ALUMNI of BUTLER UNIVERSITY, Indianapolis, IN Arthur C.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her latest illustrated children’s book, A Library, debuted this fall at the Library of Congress. It recounts her weekly visits to a segregated library during her childhood. Giovanni has received 30 honorary degrees and seven NAACP Image Awards. History-maker Dr. Ruth J.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

After the exercise of 2001 with its 68 Units of Assessment there was growing concern about the fairness of a method of assessment based on disciplinary or subject ‘units’. Project funding was to continue to be sought in the form of grants, including those from Research Councils which were also moved within UKRI.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Author, Understanding Academic Freedom (2021); The Future of Academic Freedom (2019); Censorship and Selection: Issues and Answers for Schools (1988, 1993, 2001); Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905 (1987). Editor (2009-15) and Associate Editor(1982-2009), American Library Association Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom.