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AAC&U Awards Frederic W. Ness Book Award

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Ness Book Award from The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The annual award is given to a book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education. Published by Harvard University Press, the book discusses practices of U.S. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Dr. Jarvis R.

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Humanity in Healthcare Emphasized in Youth Career Pathways Partnership

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So much that in my last conversation with her on the night of January 16, 2021; she told me that she wanted to write a book on “humanity in healthcare”; adding that “they ought to treat folk humanely”. She expressed confusion and tremendous frustration with regards to the way that she was being treated. to 1:00 p.m.

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The Missed Opportunity: Student Affairs and Human Resources Collaboration to [Re]engage College Communities

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Jonelle Knox When I reviewed the question posed to me about [re]engaging the college community, I started thinking about a missed opportunity that many colleges and university leaders are not taking advantage of; the collaboration of student affairs and human resources to create [re]engagement activities. They need to have fun!

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Universal Write Publications Marks 20-Year Milestone

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Universal Write Publications (UWP) was founded in 2004 by Dr. Ayo Sekai and has flourished from a passion project publishing fiction and children’s books into a respected publisher of rigorous, peer-reviewed academic literature.

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A Scholarship in Telling Stories in the African Diaspora

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Through the Voices of Men: South African Men and HIV (Linus Learning, 2011) was inspired by research on the proliferation of HIV cases and is part of a book series that includes Dual Pandemics: HIV and the Coronavirus in Several Kenyan Communities (Linus Learning, 2024). Tales of Koehler Hollow is a fascinating read which I highly recommend.”

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The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities

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IRS employees are human. An explosive Dutch scandal involving an algorithm taught by tax authorities that being poor or having two nationalities made taxpayers more likely to engage in fraud highlights the risk of discrimination by humans and robots alike. It would be naïve to ignore the possibility that they do the same.

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After the Election We’ll Need a Strong System of Higher Education More Than Ever

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The key to thriving in a tech-mediated world is to recognize the distinction between tasks that can be easily automated and the work that only humans can do—work characterized by creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking. It’s that we must develop our very human capacities for learning and growth.