Education

[ad_1] Seven nursing professors have recently quit their jobs at Henderson State University to protest budget cuts, THV News reported. The Arkansas university has declared financial exigency. “Change is hard, and on a college campus where the majority of changes are people, there’s an understandable reaction,” Chancellor Chuck Ambrose said. “Fear, anxiety, hurt, and sometimes …

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[ad_1] George Mason University’s law school, the Antonin Scalia School of Law, has emerged as a prominent conservative law school. An article in The New York Times explores the law school’s connections to Supreme Court justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Brett M. Kavanaugh. “The documents [from an open records request] show how Scalia …

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[ad_1] I was asked recently whether distance education, in the context of community colleges, is “cost-effective.” It’s one of those seemingly simple questions that becomes less simple as you dig into it. At the course level, the major expense for either in-person or online classes is faculty labor. The colleges with which I work pay …

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[ad_1] This semester I have been deep in thought about the role that information policy—or the absence of it—plays in contemporary politics. While the course I am teaching at the Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University covers many important academic issues and there is a subtext: technology in the context of public policy. …

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[ad_1] I am not a dancer. Just ask anyone who has ever seen my awkward and embarrassing moves on a dance floor. Yet I consider dance the most important, yet understudied and undertaught, performance art and form of physical cultural expression. There are obvious reasons why dance doesn’t receive the scholarly respect it deserves. Apart …

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[ad_1] Navarro College is facing a federal lawsuit from a woman who says the head cheerleading coach tried to cover up a sexual assault, NBC Dallas reported. The cheerleading team was made famous by the Netflix documentary Cheer. The suit charges that a male cheerleader sexually assaulted a female cheerleader in the fall of 2021. …

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[ad_1] The College Board announced on April 24 that it will make changes in the controversial new offering in African American studies. The current “framework” released for a full pilot in the next year has been widely criticized by scholars in the field for giving short shrift to many topics in the modern period. Conservatives, led …

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[ad_1] Guest Post by David Eubanks, Furman University I am not proud of the fact that early in my career I thought giving Fs in Calculus 1 made me a good teacher: every zero plopped into the course average signaled the rigors of college math. Now that my role has changed to institutional research, I …

“F” grades don’t necessarily mean what we say. There’s better alternatives. Read More »

[ad_1] Navarro College, is facing a federal lawsuit by a woman who says the head cheerleading coach tried to cover up a sexual assault, NBC Dallas reported. The cheerleading team was made famous by the Netflix documentary Cheer. The suit charges that a male cheerleader sexually assaulted a female cheerleader in the fall of 2021. …

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[ad_1] Follow-up stories are not the news media’s forte. Headlines blare, innovations are hyped, then silence ensues. Think of the classic mysteries that remain unsolved. Inquiring minds want to know whatever happened to Judge Crater or Jimmy Hoffa, or to the artworks taken in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist. Then there are somewhat more …

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