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Dr. Paula D. McClain

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

McClain is professor of political science and professor of public policy and dean of the graduate school and vice provost for graduate education, having moved to Duke from the University of Virginia in 2000. Westview Press published the fifth edition of her book, “ Can We All Get Along?”:

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HBCUs: Catalysts for Economic Empowerment and Community Growth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those we interviewed for our book HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities underscored the importance of a reciprocal relationship between HBCUs and their local communities. Esters is the Dean of the Graduate School and Vice President of Graduate Education at The Pennsylvania State University.

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ChatGPT and AI in post-graduate education

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Jane teaches both poetry and fiction, focussing on concrete poetry and artists’ books, Surrealism, visual art and poetry, digital art/poetry, writing speculative fiction, and interdisciplinary studies. With Shore Poets, she facilitates poetry readings and music in Edinburgh.

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Preparing Students for Future Work Using Narrative Approaches

The Scholarly Teacher

Atria Books. Introduction The world of work continues to change. Harvard Business Review Press. Kellerman, G. & Seligman, M. Tomorrowmind: Thriving at work with resilience, creativity, and connection—Now and in an uncertain future. McGowan, H. & Shipley, C. Stebleton, M.

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered. If so, how does it differ from linguistics?

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Many of my own students regard reading a book as too much of an effort. To be sure, as Robert Kelchen, an expert on higher ed finance and head of the University of Tennessee’s Education Leadership and Policy Studies department, notes : “undergraduate education is only a part of what” even public flagships do.

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From Past to Present: New Book Explores the Importance of HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But the book is not merely an exercise in nostalgia. Whenever I give a talk and share my educational journey, I like to open by saying that I bleed orange and green, but I am also a die-hard Aggie,” writes Esters, who is now dean of the Graduate School and the vice provost for graduate education at The Pennsylvania State University. “To

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