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Aesthete Explores Equity in Disability Studies, Healthcare Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sabrina Jamal-Eddine During her Bachelor of Science in Nursing studies, Sabrina Jamal-Eddine informed a clinical instructor about her back disability and lifting limitation as well as explaining that she could do everything but except lift a patient. She was taken into an administrative office and questioned why she had applied to a major she wasn’t physically capable of doing.

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Positive Partnership: College and University Create Adult Learner Pathway, Apprenticeships

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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Outrage over UK university’s plan to cut African history course and its professor

The Guardian Higher Education

University of Chichester proposes redundancy for Hakim Adi, first Briton of African heritage to become a professor of history in UK A university has come under fire for proposing to make the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK redundant and cut the course he runs. Prof Hakim Adi, an academic and expert in the history of Africa and the African diaspora is at risk of termination by the University of Chichester, which has suspended all recruitment to

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Student loan debt relief is only a Band-Aid solution - Owen Lavine, EdSource

Ray Schroeder

If we are serious about ensuring education is a human right, then removing the cost barrier should be the modus operandi. It seems the rest of the modernized world has figured it out; it’s time we follow in their footsteps and make college free for all. The Biden administration’s relief program would have expunged roughly $500 billion of the outstanding $1.7 trillion of student loan debt, a fraction of the cost of tuition-free college for all in the United States, which carries a price tag of ar

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If the Tory degree plan is dopey, look who’s selling it | Stewart Lee

The Guardian Higher Education

Those charged with explaining the policy had been sent into the field without any clear idea of what the word ‘good’ actually meant On Monday, as part of their ongoing fabricated culture war, a desperate Conservative government declared an incoherent assault on “rip-off” degrees. But there is no one left in the duffer-stuffed Conservative government clever enough to defend the idiotic soundbite that is “Crackdown on Mickey Mouse degrees!

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Higher Ed Groups ‘Appalled’ at House Budget Cuts - Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed

Ray Schroeder

House Republicans proposed cutting money for Federal Work-Study and a childcare subsidy for parents in college. Those moves have left colleges worried about the impacts. NIH also would be cut. The latest budget proposal from House Republicans would eliminate funding for 60 programs including Federal Work-Study—cuts that have left higher education groups concerned.