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    From Amanda Goodalls Socrates in the Boardroom : Why Research Universities Should be Led by Top Scholars ( pdf of Chapter 1 ): The reasons why presidents should be able scholars are fourfold: Scholars are more credible leaders. A president who is a researcher will gain greater respect from academic ...
    3 days ago
  • Management wisdom from Harvard President


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    In this interview , Prof. Drew Gilpin Faust addresses lots of questions on management and leadership. Heres the section where she talks about the importance of communication: There’s one alum who was an expert in turnarounds, and so I asked him, “What should I do?” He said, “One lesson about change in any ...
    1 week ago
  • Robert Zimmer: What is Academic Freedom for?


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    Robert Zimmer is President, The University of Chicago. Here are some excerpts from his talk at a recent conference on What is Academic Freedom for? I will summarize the principles of the Kalven report, adding a few embellishments for emphasis. First, the focus on rigorous, intense, and open inquiry carried ...
    1 week ago
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    Featured link: Pankaj Jalote (Director, IIIT-Delhi) in the Economic Times : Whos afraid of foreign universities? An old article (from 2006) in Business Week by Nandini Lakshman: Will foreign universities come to India? Sticking to the theme of foreign universities, heres one about Australias experience ...
    1 week ago
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    Raymond Tallis: Does Evolution Explain Our Behaviour? : "Does evolution explain our behaviour? The short answer is: No. And you may well concur with that answer but ‘out there’ there is an increasing constituency of thinkers claiming quite otherwise. [...] Tom Chivers in The London Telegraph : Internet rules ...
    2 weeks ago
  • When men become a minority in a high-prestige field ...


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    ... it is viewed as A Seriously Bad Thing -- something that should be corrected. For example, by changing admissions requirement to include performance in tests in which men have an advantage. Heres something from Ireland that should sound very, very familiar: In medical courses, women were three times more likely ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Womens dominance in higher ed?


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    It dawned in the West two or three decades ago -- women outnumber men in universities and colleges there, by as much as (or higher than) 2 to 1. In some countries, women are a minority only in sciences (especially physical sciences) and engineering -- but the trends appear to favor a female majority soon. These ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Pakistans reform experiments in higher ed


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    Sidebar : Im not sure how many of these links to Nature.com will work for you without subscription; the last two will definitely work from this story at ScieDev.Net -- go to the bottom of that story for the links. * * * The Nature opinion piece (by Athar Osama, Adil Najam, Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, Syed Zulfiqar ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Be Honest About Your Web Goals


    Mike McCreadyAuthority Authority: 112
    I came across a campaign website for Lakehead University and at the very top of the website is the call-to-action, ‘Enter to win an Apple MacBook.’  At first glance all it appears that I need to do is supply an e-mail address.  Upon submitting, I needed to provide more personal information like birth date, ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Out-of-State Public Universities–A Good Idea?


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    Today’s issue of Inside Higher Ed has an article about public universities eager to boost revenues –and head count–by recruiting out-of-state students. Many public universities are facing deep budget cuts, and some are hoping to make up their revenue shortfalls by recruiting out-of-state students.   The ...
    3 weeks ago
  • AASHE Awards For Four Higher Ed Institutions


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    New York University, University of New Hampshire, Furman University, and Butte College were recognized for campus sustainability efforts. by AnneTFM
    4 weeks ago

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