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WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to serve in key roles:
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WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to serve in key roles:
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Today, President Biden announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to serve in key roles:
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Today, President Biden announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to serve in key roles:
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When I went back to college in my late 40s, I remember walking through the libraries at Meredith and Duke talking to the books.
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When I went back to college in my late 40s, I remember walking through the libraries at Meredith and Duke talking to the books.
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If you had told me 55 years ago that public education would sink to the depths that it has, I never would have believed you.
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If you had told me 55 years ago that public education would sink to the depths that it has, I never would have believed you.
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Schools teaching students violence is acceptable
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Schools teaching students violence is acceptable
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A professor who was suspended from teaching after he criticized students who mistakenly claimed racism after seeing the names of students of color written on a white board has been cleared to return to teaching next semester.
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A professor who was suspended from teaching after he criticized students who mistakenly claimed racism after seeing the names of students of color written on a white board has been cleared to return to teaching next semester.
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In an astounding case from Coastal Carolina University (CCU), an innocent list on a whiteboard may have doomed a theater professor for not being sufficiently outraged along with angry students who misread the situation.
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In an astounding case from Coastal Carolina University (CCU), an innocent list on a whiteboard may have doomed a theater professor for not being sufficiently outraged along with angry students who misread the situation.
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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has begun the process of revising state science and health standards
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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has begun the process of revising state science and health standards
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Event leads to oral history project remembering Black farming families in eastern NC
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Event leads to oral history project remembering Black farming families in eastern NC
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Thales College, a new undergraduate institution launching this fall in Wake Forest, N.C., is eagerly preparing to open its doors to its inaugural class.
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Thales College, a new undergraduate institution launching this fall in Wake Forest, N.C., is eagerly preparing to open its doors to its inaugural class.
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The institutions of the West have lost much of their power to conserve the past for future generations.
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The institutions of the West have lost much of their power to conserve the past for future generations.
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Soon, high school graduates will be making monumental decisions that will determine their future quality of life. These decisions include whether to attend college; if so, where; and finally, what degree program to pursue.
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Soon, high school graduates will be making monumental decisions that will determine their future quality of life. These decisions include whether to attend college; if so, where; and finally, what degree program to pursue.
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A new college is opening its doors to students in the fall of 2023. In Costa Mesa, California, Hildegard College is offering students the chance to take their faith and combine it with rigorous academics focused on the liberal arts.
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A new college is opening its doors to students in the fall of 2023. In Costa Mesa, California, Hildegard College is offering students the chance to take their faith and combine it with rigorous academics focused on the liberal arts.
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Community college is often seen as a cheaper alternative to traditional four-year undergraduate degree programs, providing students with a widely-accessible means to pursue a postsecondary education without being burdened by tens of thousands of dollars (or more) in student loan debt.
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Community college is often seen as a cheaper alternative to traditional four-year undergraduate degree programs, providing students with a widely-accessible means to pursue a postsecondary education without being burdened by tens of thousands of dollars (or more) in student loan debt.
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The Supreme Court may ban affirmative action, but even if it does, many race, sex, and ideology-conscious “diversity” policies and programs will still remain on college campuses.
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The Supreme Court may ban affirmative action, but even if it does, many race, sex, and ideology-conscious “diversity” policies and programs will still remain on college campuses.
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During the years I taught college English, I had a ringside seat watching a new breed of Jacobins seize control of a university English department, then extend their reach throughout the humanities.
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During the years I taught college English, I had a ringside seat watching a new breed of Jacobins seize control of a university English department, then extend their reach throughout the humanities.
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The past decade has ushered in dramatic growth in the number of postsecondary degree options available to US students.
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The past decade has ushered in dramatic growth in the number of postsecondary degree options available to US students.
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U.S. Poet Laureate impacts students, public while at ECU
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U.S. Poet Laureate impacts students, public while at ECU
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On February 25, Wyoming’s state senate passed a budget amendment to end funding for the University of Wyoming’s Gender and Women’s Studies program.
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On February 25, Wyoming’s state senate passed a budget amendment to end funding for the University of Wyoming’s Gender and Women’s Studies program.
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Brody most diverse medical school in N.C.; education ranked high
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Brody most diverse medical school in N.C.; education ranked high
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Preston Cooper, a researcher at The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity studying the economics of higher education, recently published a wide-ranging analysis of almost 14,000 U.S. graduate degree programs.
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Preston Cooper, a researcher at The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity studying the economics of higher education, recently published a wide-ranging analysis of almost 14,000 U.S. graduate degree programs.
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As if landing a college teaching position wasn’t already difficult enough, the powers-that-be have placed another obstacle in job-seekers’ path: the so-called “Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” better known as the “diversity statement” or “DEI statement.”
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As if landing a college teaching position wasn’t already difficult enough, the powers-that-be have placed another obstacle in job-seekers’ path: the so-called “Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” better known as the “diversity statement” or “DEI statement.”
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In 1985, Roosevelt Montás arrived in the United States aged twelve, speaking no English, accustomed to life in a rural mountain village of the Dominican Republic where he had passed his boyhood—a village with one shared telephone.
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In 1985, Roosevelt Montás arrived in the United States aged twelve, speaking no English, accustomed to life in a rural mountain village of the Dominican Republic where he had passed his boyhood—a village with one shared telephone.
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In 2019, the Society for Classical Studies, a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization, held a rather memorable conference in San Diego.
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In 2019, the Society for Classical Studies, a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization, held a rather memorable conference in San Diego.
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A research brief from curriculum publisher Amplify shows that elementary school students continue to lag behind in literacy almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A research brief from curriculum publisher Amplify shows that elementary school students continue to lag behind in literacy almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Veritas. Lux et veritas. Veritas vos liberabit. Truth. Light and truth. Truth will set you free.
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Veritas. Lux et veritas. Veritas vos liberabit. Truth. Light and truth. Truth will set you free.
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper recognized North Carolina’s African American leaders and organizations in the science, technology, engineering and math fields for their critical work.
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper recognized North Carolina’s African American leaders and organizations in the science, technology, engineering and math fields for their critical work.
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Given the enormity of the public and private investment in US higher education, of course we should evaluate its effectiveness. But, how?
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Given the enormity of the public and private investment in US higher education, of course we should evaluate its effectiveness. But, how?
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Last year, Forbes published a headline, “Americans rank a Google internship over a Harvard degree.” It seems higher education is quickly losing hold of its value proposition as the best way to prepare for a job or advance in one’s career.
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Last year, Forbes published a headline, “Americans rank a Google internship over a Harvard degree.” It seems higher education is quickly losing hold of its value proposition as the best way to prepare for a job or advance in one’s career.
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"Almost all students cite getting a better job as a primary reason for attending college,” writes Preston Cooper in the opening paragraph of his new study
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"Almost all students cite getting a better job as a primary reason for attending college,” writes Preston Cooper in the opening paragraph of his new study
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From the 1960s until quite recently, the conventional wisdom in America was that going to college and earning a degree was a very good investment.
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From the 1960s until quite recently, the conventional wisdom in America was that going to college and earning a degree was a very good investment.
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When the University of Georgia announced that “student success” would be heavily weighted in future tenure decisions, it opened the door to the possibility of a long-overdue change in college curricula.
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When the University of Georgia announced that “student success” would be heavily weighted in future tenure decisions, it opened the door to the possibility of a long-overdue change in college curricula.
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Oldest African American town in U.S. preserves history amidst environmental calamities
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Oldest African American town in U.S. preserves history amidst environmental calamities
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Imagine a room full of fresh-faced humanities graduate students tasked with answering this timeless question: “Why read literature?”
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Imagine a room full of fresh-faced humanities graduate students tasked with answering this timeless question: “Why read literature?”