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Why It’s Imperative that Africa Study Abroad Opportunities Thrive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Beyond my own experience, research in the A cademy of Management Journal has highlighted that executives' foreign work opportunities “predicted the creativity ratings of their [work] collections” when evaluated for breadth, depth and cultural distance.

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Duke University graduate students win union election in a landslide

University Business

If the results are certified, PhD students who work at Duke as teaching assistants and researchers will form the largest graduate student union at a private university in the South. The final vote count on Tuesday was 1,000 votes for the union to 131 against.

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2022 Delphi Award Winners Share Practices to Support Part-Time Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At Dominican, adjunct faculty progress through a tiered promotion system based on “credit points,” where one-point equals one credit course unit, said Carol Aiono Tucker, faculty affairs and institutional research board process coordinator at Dominican.

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Adjusting for societal impact, this college ranking features 7 public schools in its top 20

University Business

Washington Monthly’s university rankings are distinguished for holding public universities in such high regard to prestigious private universities; seven colleges in this top 20 are state institutions. 281 $1,758 15 3 19 2 Stanford University (Calif.) 130 $355 6 2 169 3 Mass.

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Apply to US Universities from Brazil

Great College Advice

Some private universities offer a wide range of degree programs, including Bachelor’s, Masters, and doctorates. Or they can study engineering at more specialized public universities like the Colorado School of Mines or the Illinois Institute of Technology. These include Harvard , Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia.

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This Alabama university is suing a state official after it was denied a lifeline

University Business

Birmingham-Southern College is suing the state treasurer after denying it a loan program that lawmakers promised would help save the university from going under, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday. million of which was in Jefferson County where the school is located, according to an economic impact study by Economic Research Services.

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How to build more flexible academic pathways for the changing college student

University Business

Looking at students through the lifelong lens, Butler+ is the private university’s answer to the new wave of continuous learning modalities catching fire across the country, offering a wide array of credential types for various career pathways while erasing the friction points typical for adult learners. .