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Retired Navy Vice Admiral to Lead Texas Southern

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He was the head of the Naval Legal Service Command, legal counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and commander of NATO Rule of Law Field Support, Afghanistan. I have worked with him on some of the most complex issues in the world. He served under six U.S. The sky is the limit.”

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The city and area hold a large population of people from places such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, along with more recent refugees from Afghanistan and Syria, according to Dr. Jason Oliver Chang, director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut.

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Helping Afghan women back into higher ed

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“Maybe there is a complacency that’s kicking in with respect to Afghanistan, now that we’re more than a year beyond August 2021,” he said. “We also know with the emergence of Ukraine, Afghanistan was already becoming old news soon after it began. He said that while U.S. It was a privilege to teach them.”

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Flushing Queens NYC

Student Housing Works

Home Quick Fact: Flushing is the most diverse & dynamic community in the United States Two-thirds of Flushing’s population is Asian American, including residents with roots in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, India and Afghanistan. New World Mall 136-20 Roosevelt Ave.

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‘Being a girl is a heavy crime’: Afghan women in despair over university ban

The Guardian Higher Education

Taliban prohibit female higher education indefinitely amid international condemnation It was late evening in Kabul, and Sabra*, a fourth-year medical student, saw a WhatsApp message appear on her phone. In a university chat group for 38 classmates, a friend had shared a news report suggesting the Taliban had banned women from higher education.

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Radical proposals in leader’s conference speech

SRHE

We already lead the world in tuition fee levels for public universities, and we can also be world-leading by slashing student numbers, which will differentiate us from every one of our major competitors, indeed, probably the whole world (apart from Afghanistan). Just the best education system in the Western world.

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Our Favorite Global Reads: AIFS Abroad Staff Picks

AIFS Abroad

Like most international educators, we don’t just love to travel, we also love to read about the world. Especially in the last few years, without ready access to seeing the world in person, most of us have turned to the next best thing. Beautiful World, Where Are You? Here are some of their recommendations: Fiction.