Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2023

Earlier this summer, Dr. Yohuru Williams and his wife were enjoying what was supposed to be a routine ride on the New Jersey Turnpike. Williams—a prominent Black historian who holds a Distinguished University Chair and is the Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis—had flown into New York City, rented a compact car at LaGuardia airport, and was making his way to his alma mater, the University of Scranton, where he was set to receive an al

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Higher Education Whisperer

AUGUST 13, 2023

ANU Hive in actionGreetings from "The Hive" at the Australian National University, where Dr Sabrina Caldwell, running a workshop on agile development. There are a lot of myths about agile: it is not the same as making it up as you go along. Sabrina emphasized the value to the customer: there is no point building a product quickly, that no one wants.

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Ray Schroeder

AUGUST 13, 2023

A rift has formed at Spartanburg Community College, where some faculty members are in revolt against what they say is a school administration that has been heavy-handed in its approach to governance since new leadership took over three years ago. The school, which has seen a sharp increase in enrollment since President Michael Mikota took over in summer 2020, says it has had to step in to quell discontent that has become a distraction.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2023

Course will use singer’s work as springboard to explore everything from 14th-century texts to Margaret Atwood’s take on The Tempest Much of the syllabus for Elly McCausland’s course at Ghent University reads like a who’s who of English literature, dotted with works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Charlotte Brontë and William Shakespeare. But it’s the inclusion of another prolific writer that has got people talking: the singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.

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Ray Schroeder

AUGUST 13, 2023

Western ended Fiscal Year 2023 on June 30 with a $12 million deficit in its appropriated funds budget. Those funds pay for salaries and other day-to-day expenses. WIU ended the previous fiscal year with a $4.5 million deficit in that fund. “I just want to point out – a few years ago we said $4 million was a five-alarm fire. This is completely unsustainable.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2023

Education minister writes to university employers and union as tens of thousands of students are left without degree results Both sides in a university pay row that has left tens of thousands of students without their degree results have been urged by the government to enter negotiations to settle the dispute. The education minister, Robert Halfon, has written to university employers and the union behind the marking and assessment boycott to say how “deeply concerned” he was about the impact of

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