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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
KendraWrites
I feel like the depth and breadth of this @highcountrynews story is getting lost in the Covid stuff, but especially if you've attended a land grant university (I've attended two
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Kevin R. McClure
kevinrmcclure
When we inevitably trace innocent deaths in the community back to universities like Texas Tech, I fully hope presidents like this are held to account.https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-24/coronavirus-surging-college-towns-wo
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U.S. Surgeon General
Surgeon_General
A short #coronavirus thread:U.S. #COVID19 cases are rapidly rising, w/ 50% of all States in red or orange zone. Cases don’t tell the whole story, but we could also hit
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Carrie Brown
Brizzyc
The framing here is interesting: Professors worried about going back are a "problem" for universities.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/coronavirus-college-professors.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20200703 People wit
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David J. Trowbridge
DTrowbridge7
Ten minutes of grading papers will reassure anyone who fears that universities are indoctrinating students that they are vastly overestimating our influence. For my birthday weekend, I wrote detailed feedback
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Tom Ellis
ProfTomEllis
I'm sorry but this year it should be called "Lobby Universities, Funders and Governments To Actually Give a Damn About Postdocs Week" here's why... While we all
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Agbontaen Eseosa
_ehsosa
I had a discussion this morning with my family and a very important question came up; Can you mention one sector in Nigeria that is thriving today because of the
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Sam Freedman
Samfr
Worth taking a step back from the specific exam fiasco this year and look at why we put so much emphasis on high-stakes exams in the English system (not uniquely
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Chamath Palihapitiya
chamath
This pandemic will hopefully mark the end of the perversion of higher education. Since the 1980s, kids and parents have been forced to play a series of stupid finite games
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Meraj Hasan
_merajhasan
A brief appraisal of the arguments of proponents of Student Unions in Pakistan.#StudentsSolidarityMarch1. “Banning Unions makes universities unsafe”There is zero campus violence in universities such as NUST, PIEAS, Bahria, NDU
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Martin Austermuhle
maustermuhle
This is dumb. I attended Penn State and Georgetown as an international student, getting 2 degrees from 1997-2004. I paid full tuition, spare one year of scholarships, at both. After
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Helen King (Classics, History of Medicine, C of E)
fluff35
I don't usually write threads. But this seemed to merit one. The Open University is getting a lot of publicity right now and among the comments on various news stories
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Melanee Thomas
MelaneeLThomas
This is an example of the begging the question fallacy. Tuition fees in Alberta aren't that low, and the only reason why they're lower than some now is because the
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George Siemens
gsiemens
What is the longer-term impact of Covid-19 on higher education? Three possible scenarios, obviously shaped by the duration and re-emergence of the virus: 1/11 Scenario 1 (least likely): Return to
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Osman Faruqi
oz_f
Folks, let me explain how by cutting funding to the humanities and increasing student fees the government is actually creating incentives for unis to enroll *more* arts students.(For my sins
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Alec Calac
ajcalac
Excited for my first-ever solo workshop today, "University Land Grant Status in Medical School Admissions" at @NIHB1 #TPHS2021! @ANAMS1975 @AAIPDocs Beyond a land acknowledgment, I am glad that @UCSDMedSchool supports
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