[ad_1] The word versatile has appeared in 199 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 27 in the Opinion essay “The Newest Immigrants Will Change American Spanish. That’s a Good Thing” by Ilan Stavans: Spanish speakers across the Caribbean exclaim “¡Qué vaina!” when describing an annoyance, a situation or a predicament. But …
[ad_1] University of Southern California When competitive colleges are asked about legacy admissions, they generally say that legacy applicants (those who are the children or relatives of alumni) meet the required academic qualifications for acceptance. Most admissions officers say these students are exceptionally qualified. But three private universities in California acknowledged to the state that …
[ad_1] Last week I passed along an observation from a reader about the seeming absence of business acumen among academic leaders and the consequent gaps in shared governance. Karen Novick, an associate dean at Rutgers, offered the following response, which deserves to be quoted at length. Most Popular Stories Most Popular The question you asked, …
[ad_1] International students are legion in the student bodies of colleges and universities in the United States; according to the Institute of International Education, their number now stands at more than a million. Such students are an important feature of American higher education institutions. It means all students are exposed to a kaleidoscope of cultures …
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[ad_1] Carlotta Berry always wanted her daughter, a rising high school sophomore, to attend a historically Black college or university. She said that dream has only intensified since the U.S. Supreme Court recently barred affirmative action in college admissions. Berry, a professor of engineering who lives with her family near Indianapolis, and other Black parents …
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[ad_1] The former University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism director, who’s also a veteran New York Times editor, turned down Texas A&M University’s offer to revive its journalism school after A&M changed its tenure offer to an at-will contract, The Texas Tribune reported Tuesday. Kathleen McElroy, who remains a UT Austin professor, is …
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[ad_1] Pennsylvania has a numbers problem. With nearly 250 colleges and universities, including over 40 public institutions, Pennsylvania has the fourth most higher education institutions of any state, after California, Texas and New York. It is home to four public multicampus institutions—Pennsylvania State University, the University of Pittsburgh, Temple University and the Pennsylvania State System …
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[ad_1] Northwestern University fired its head football coach, Pat Fitzgerald, on Monday following the release of allegations of sexualized hazing in the program. The decision came after the university released a summary of an independent investigation of allegations made anonymously by a student athlete in November 2022, and just two days after the university announced …
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[ad_1] An experiment to encourage more women undergraduates to study economics produced mixed results but succeeded in bringing awareness to the gender disparities in the field, according to a new working paper published by the National Board of Economic Research. Dubbed the Undergraduate Women in Economics (or UWE, pronounced like the word “you”) challenge, the …
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[ad_1] When It Gets Hot in the Kitchen: Academic Minute Doug Lederman Wed, 07/12/2023 – 12:00 AM [ad_2] Source link
