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Contested Spaces: Infrastructural Citizenship in the City
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November 4, 2015

Contested Spaces: Infrastructural Citizenship in the City

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Diplomacy or Destroyers: Uncle Sam’s Freedom of Navigation Choice
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November 3, 2015

Diplomacy or Destroyers: Uncle Sam’s Freedom of Navigation Choice

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What Connects English Language Testing, Tours and Education Markets?
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October 27, 2015

What Connects English Language Testing, Tours and Education Markets?

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Suffragette – More than a Feminist Movie
International Debate
October 26, 2015

Suffragette – More than a Feminist Movie

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Bringing Foundational Research in from the Cold

Bringing Foundational Research in from the Cold

Just as the ice on a frozen pond may prevent us from seeing the richness in the underlying water, so may the calcifications of the most recent research blind us to what classic theorists actually said and wrote. So argue three academics in a new article about the legacy of Kurt Lewin’s change management theory.

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What Will Happen to the Cosmopolitans?

What Will Happen to the Cosmopolitans?

Despite what he calls the poisonously xenophobic tone of politics and public debates in Britain, our Daniel Nehring still finds it a colorfully multicultural and sometimes, in some places, cosmopolitan society. One place he’d especially like to protect that virtue is in British universities.

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Xavier’s Social Science College Loses Social Science in Name

Xavier’s Social Science College Loses Social Science in Name

Xavier University, a venerable Jesuit university in Cincinnati, Ohio serving more than 6,500 students, has renamed its existing College of Social Sciences, […]

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Tracking the Gender Gap in Assigned Readings

Tracking the Gender Gap in Assigned Readings

New research looking at international relations courses finds that male professors assign more readings by males — and much of it their own work — than do female professors. And this does a disservice to students, argues Jeff Colgan.

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Building Metrics That Help, Not Hurt, Science

Building Metrics That Help, Not Hurt, Science

Rather than expecting people to stop utilizing metrics altogether, we would be better off focusing on making sure the metrics are effective and accurate, argues Brett Buttliere.

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Japan’s Ministry of Education Downsizing the Liberal Arts?

Japan’s Ministry of Education Downsizing the Liberal Arts?

Have japan’s national universities been ordered — or coerced — into dismantling their humanities and social science programs or not? Jeff Kingston of Temple University Japan walks us through an answer tangled up in patriotism, politics and the nation’s ailing academy.

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Development Experts Seek Help from Social Scientists

Development Experts Seek Help from Social Scientists

Social scientists must team up to help achieve the global development agenda and help measure progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, attendees of the World Social Science Forum were told.

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What’s Distinctive About Britain’s New Corporate Universities?

What’s Distinctive About Britain’s New Corporate Universities?

British universities are changing at rapid pace, notes Daniel Nehring in the first of a new series of article on the so-called corporate university. The consequences of these changes are cause of concern for many academics, who worry about their working conditions and the future of academic freedom.

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