More schools are deciding to scrap the tradition of naming a valedictorian – just as students from diverse backgrounds are becoming the first of their background to win the honor.
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Recent blackface scandals that involve college yearbooks have overshadowed how yearbooks also chronicled important turning points in the history of US higher education, a historian argues.
In the information age, advertising is no longer needed to inform consumers.That means its primary role is to manipulate.
Post-World War II California built an unrivalled system of higher education combining access, affordability and choice. Then a contraction of the vision came in the 1980s.
Recent elections in Latin America have suggested a retreat from left-wing politics and populist leaders. But results from Ecuador’s 2017 presidential election suggest otherwise.
This Tuesday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. Gender biases continue and women’s voices are missing from expert discussions.
If we can understand how and when changes in the brain start to happen in people with Down syndrome, we may be able find ways to slow or prevent Alzheimer’s disease for everyone.
If you want a desirable ambassadorship, becoming a Foreign Service Officer and earning the relevant degrees – in other words, accumulating experience – might not be the best plan of action.
Every 67 seconds someone in the United States is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and new estimates suggest that it may be the third leading cause of death of older people. Alzheimer’s disease is associated…
Fans of J R R Tolkien must wonder why there is any controversy associated with the recent publication of his 1926 translation of Beowulf. For them anything new from Tolkien is welcome. But imagine if Tolkien’s…
Researchers have been able to restore mobility in paralysed rats using a technique called deep brain stimulation. This involved delivering electrical impulses to an area of the brain called the mesencephalic…
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Professor and director emeritus, Institute for Rural Journalism, University of Kentucky
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Ph.D. Candidate and Instructor in Geography, University of Kentucky
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Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies, University of Kentucky
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Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, University of Kentucky
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Professor of Sociology, University of Kentucky
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Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky
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Visiting Professor of Politics at Centre College, University of Kentucky
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University Research Professor, University of Kentucky
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Professor of Social Work, University of Kentucky
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Clinical Research Manager, University of Kentucky
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PhD Candidate in Economics, University of Kentucky
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Clinical Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology, University of Kentucky
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky
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Assistant Professor of Law, University of Kentucky
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky
