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Effect of Institutional Autonomy on Academic Freedom in Higher Education Institutions in Ghana

SRHE

Zulu, C (2016) Gender equity and equality in higher education leadership: Whats social justice and substantive equality got to do with it? Nokkala, T., & Bacevic, J. University autonomy, agenda setting and the construction of agency: The case of the European university association in the European higher education area. Tricker, R.

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President’s corner: Trust is the bedrock of progress at High Point University

University Business

Qubein’s rise to the highest ranks of higher education despite his lack of administrative experience seems as farfetched as HPU managing to continually improve enrollment since his tenure began in 2005, surviving the blows of the 2007-08 Great Recession and the pandemic. “I believe in this work.

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Belmont plans to hire Jewish faculty for the first time

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Shaul Kelner, associate professor of sociology and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt University, said the move to recruit Jewish faculty seems consistent with the trajectory of the university since it cut off its affiliation with the Tennessee Baptist Convention in 2007.

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Fun and games – nurturing students’ ‘being’

SRHE

In our changing world, with elevated awareness of issues such as climate change, sustainability, social justice and EDI, this tendency towards the personal skills should come as no surprise. This is because the skills required to address such issues are often human-centred.

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DEI Blog: Third Time’s a Charm

College for Creative Study

My ADHD Transfer Story When I began college as a photography major at Columbia College Chicago in 2007, I was incredibly excited. It was in this liminal space that I fostered my passion for social justice that led to me being one of the founding members of Occupy Detroit – the ultimate focus of my senior thesis.

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Protecting Tribal Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Carpenter and her law students are visiting reservations and together with NARF doing workshops about the United Nations Declaration (passed in 2007). In addition to Native students, he encourages non-Native people with a commitment to social justice to get into the field.

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The College Classroom as an Arena of Contention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Those are just a few of the words that two Fox News critics used in 2007 to describe Rupert Murdock’s agenda-driven rightwing propaganda machine in their riotously funny, profanity-laced takedown, Fair and Balanced My Ass! Outlandish. Mendacious, malevolent, misleading. Dishonest, disingenuous, deceitful. Skewed, slanted, shoddy.

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