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Game Changers and Change Makers: Black Publishers’ Defiant Mark on History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Woodson in 1915, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, Black activism has surfaced in well-known titles such as Invisible Man , by Ralph Ellison, the ROOTS saga by Alex Haley and other notable Black authors such as Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Audre Lorde. The historical significance of Black publishers is astounding.

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Ring The Alarm: A Call to Action for Black Women to Address Wellness in the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Audre Lorde (2017) reminds us that “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare,” and the world needs you in the fight. link] Lorde, A. This is not about perfection, any month is a great month to reflect, revise, and commit yourself to being well. Bambara, T.

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It felt downright pedantic to mention The Hobbit was published in 1937, or that most of The Lord of the Rings was written before the end of World War II. Also, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are clearly novelistic in form, even if they deal with “epic” or “romantic” ideas. What are your thoughts?

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Irregulation: is the Office for Students fit for purpose?

SRHE

by Rob Cuthbert, SRHE News Editor The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has decided to investigate the OfS. Sometimes if you are attacked from all sides you might be in the right place, but the OfS will struggle to argue that case: consider those three questions from the Lords Committee.

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Must do better:  making the Office for Students accountable

SRHE

by GR Evans The House of Lords Committee on Industry and Regulators pulls no punches in Must do better. The student interest’ in which it was set up is described as ‘defined by the OfS in line with the political priorities of Ministers rather than the priorities of students’.

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Why the Term ‘Friendraising’ Makes Me Cross

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Forgive me, Mr. Burnett, but I want to scream, “Dear Lord, please make it stop,” every time I hear it or its iterations (friendraisers, friendraising events, etc.). Donors may also act politically to protect an employee by threatening to withdraw support or wage war to terminate the supervisor.

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Famous Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges

Great College Advice

Osborne, class of 1966, producer of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Love (CEO of eTapestry) NOTABLE ALUMNI of CARLETON COLLEGE, Northfield, MN Peter Tork, musician, member rock band “The Monkees” Thorstein Veblen, class of 1880, American economist and author of The Theory of the Leisure Class.

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