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VUU Webinar Discusses NSF Funding and STEM Research at HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Such programs include the Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Initiative , the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program ; and the HBCU Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), now in its 25th year. “At At Lincoln University, HBCU researchers are creating a sustainability curriculum around food studies and social media engagement,” Moore said. “At

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

If literary scholarship isn’t progressive in a scientific or medical sense, then, he suggests, it might take alternate forms, for example, through alternate formats that extend beyond the book or scholarly essay or modes that speak to public audiences outside the academy. Addressing the ongoing crisis of graduate education.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Future of English Departments Faced with sharply falling numbers of majors, many English departments are downplaying the traditional canon and pre-1800 (and sometimes pre-1900) literature and instead emphasizing Creative Writing, communication, media studies, global English language literature, and non-Western literature.