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Age Consciousness, Age Segregation, and Age Denigration

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In 1904, he popularized a new age category in a book entitled Adolescence. At the same time, age became a crucial legal category, defining when one could work, drink, smoke, marry, enter the military, and even have sexual relations. Stanley Hall. At first, age categories were largely applied to the young.

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Higher Education Inquirer - Untitled Article

Higher Education Inquirer

Department of Veterans Affairs and National Science Foundation. Healthy Minds Study This research database houses data collected as part of the Healthy Minds Study, an annual survey that asks college students about their mental health and their school environment, including campus safety, peer support and mental health services.

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Can Cheating on Steroids in Colleges and Universities be Stopped?

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

I Googled the name of my accounting ethics textbook to see what came up and there was Chegg offering answers even to separate questions in my book.  Santos allegedly scammed a disabled homeless military veteran out of thousands in donations intended to keep his dying service pooch alive.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Books Alexander, Bryan (2020). Bold Type Books. Pocket Books. Thomas Dunne Books. Basic Books. Encounter Books. [Editor's Note: Please let us know of any additions or corrections.] Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Johns Hopkins Press. Alexander, Bryan (2023). Universities on Fire. Bennett, W.

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Higher Education Inquirer - Untitled Article

Higher Education Inquirer

The big question isnt whether the Department of Education is going to go away -- I think the big question is what its going to do, says education historian Jonathan Zimmerman , a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who wrote the books Whose America? Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Wrestling with Public Education: Linda McMahon’s Nomination as Secretary of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Although we have witnessed how grievance politics can lead to book bans and the abolition of curricula dedicated to African American history/culture , t he parallels between McMahons professional background and the educational challenges facing the country are tenuous at best. Kennedy Jr., Dr. James B.