Let’s say you want the perfect mix of friends and strangers at your next party. Mathematicians have been working on a version of this problem for nearly a century, and the answer is complicated.
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About 44 million Americans are still paying off student loan debt. But it didn’t always used to be this way. As the perceived purpose of a college education changed, so too did the way we pay for it.
Solar radiation management might be able to reduce some of the risks of global warming while countries get their emissions under control.
Most university presidents in the US are still white, male and over the age of 60. But as they retire, is there an opportunity to reshape college leadership and, with it, higher education itself?
To post or not to post? Colleges and employers are increasingly checking social media to get a sense of their candidates. Here’s what you should (and shouldn’t) post in order to secure your future.
If universities work together they are more likely to find creative solutions to problems. Collaboration will allow them to benefit from the global academic community’s collective wisdom.
Global economic realities shouldn’t deter African universities from continuing to push for massification. But they must do so armed with knowledge, lessons from elsewhere and strong funding models.
Here’s why disagreement about affirmative action will not end any time soon. Coming up next is a lawsuit brought by Asian-Americans challenging Harvard’s race-conscious policy.
When the first universities opened in Europe, some 800 years ago, students literally borrowed from a chest and used their books as collateral.
State support for public research universities declined by 28 percent between 2003 and 2013. So, why does it matter?
At the root of today’s racial troubles on campuses is the past, when most American universities were intimately connected to slave trade and slavery. Harvard, Princeton, Brown were no exception.
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Professor of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice, University of Colorado Boulder
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Post Doctoral Fellow, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Dean and Professor of Higher and International Education, Executive Director of SUNY's Strategic, Academic, and Innovative Leadership (SAIL) Institute, and Co-Director of the Cross-Border Education Research Team, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago
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Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
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Lecturer at Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professeur en management & théories des organisations, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
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Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Brandeis University
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Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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