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How do we enable transformative university transitions?

SRHE

Using yearly interviews with 40 home, undergraduate full-time students who started their studies in 2013/2014, my research at an English northern red brick university (NRBU) focused on how students understood, and made sense of, their experiences of student life as they moved into, through, and beyond university. I absolutely loved Uni.

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Law school "denaming" sparks donor debacle

Confessions of a Community College Dean

He also donated over $35,000 to the law school—a substantial sum at the time—and gave more to the university throughout his life. Frank Cialone, an attorney who has worked on a number of donor dispute cases in higher education, said he doubted that Smith and his relatives had grounds for a successful lawsuit.

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Is Poetry Dying?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A freshman dormmate won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry nearly a decade ago. The share of adults who said that they had read a poem (not plural) not for school or work, 12 percent in 2017, was nearly a third less than in 1992. His book sold, according to the last count that I saw, 353 copies.

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Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. on historicizing 'The Hobbit'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

That said, this student of Tolkien had at least one salient critical premise: more can be going on in a work of literary fantasy than just make-believe. avoids reductive shortcuts while also presenting Tolkien’s first work of fiction as deeply historical.

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