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The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future
By Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt In January of 2015, Arthur and Scott met for the first time at a small restaurant in New York’s West Village. Arthur was seeking a research assistant to help with a new book on the future of higher education, and...
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Infusing Empathy and Social Justice into the Classroom
In the latest issue of the journal Hispania , Dr. Deanna Mihaly details the innovative ways she promotes intercultural competence with empathy in her Spanish classroom at Virginia State University. Hispania is published by the American Association...
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Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin
By Lisa T. Sarasohn Let’s be perfectly clear: I despise bugs, even the supposedly socially useful ones, like bees or spiders. And I particularly don’t like the nefarious ones that I feature in my book, Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social...
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New study reveals how "reverse transfer" students fare at community colleges
The latest issue of The Review of Higher Education includes a notable paper from City University of New York (CUNY) researcher Vivian Yuen Ting Liu. Dr. Liu analyzed eight years of data about students who transferred to two-year colleges. The...
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Banned Books Week 2021: Books Unite Us, Censorship Divides Us
Banned Books Week (September 26 – October 2) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. Banned...
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The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation
By Lucy Maddox For anyone who sets out to write a history, the result of finishing such a project has to include a sense of incompleteness. There’s much the writer simply cannot know, but there’s also much the writer can’t include because it’s not...
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