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Teaching Black Lives Matter Tenets to Shape Humanizing Research and Methods Pedagogy
Higher Education Reform
February 4, 2021

Teaching Black Lives Matter Tenets to Shape Humanizing Research and Methods Pedagogy

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How Can We Strengthen the Academic Pipeline?
Higher Education Reform
February 1, 2021

How Can We Strengthen the Academic Pipeline?

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Does the Cost Point  Influence Your Idea of the Larger Point of University Itself?
Research
January 22, 2021

Does the Cost Point Influence Your Idea of the Larger Point of University Itself?

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What I Have Learned from Social Science
Interdisciplinarity
January 1, 2021

What I Have Learned from Social Science

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Watch the Event: Reimagining Higher Education

Watch the Event: Reimagining Higher Education

Reimagining Higher Education is the second event in the Reimagining Social Institutions series of online forums sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and SAGE Publishing.

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Readying for a New Normal: Higher Ed Teaching and Learning after COVID

Readying for a New Normal: Higher Ed Teaching and Learning after COVID

Kiren Shoman, the editorial director for SAGE Publishing, discusses what SAGE has learned from the higher ed sector as it reflects on how the pandemic response has affected teaching and what it expects once the new normal arrives.

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To Better Serve Students and Future Workforces, We Must Diversify the Syllabi

To Better Serve Students and Future Workforces, We Must Diversify the Syllabi

Ellen Hutti and Jenine Harris have quantified the extent to which female authors are represented in assigned course readings. In this blog post, they emphasize that more equal exposure to experts with whom they can identify will better serve our students and foster the growth, diversity and potential of this future workforce. They also present one repository currently being built for readings by underrepresented authors that are Black, Indigenous or people of color.

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Video and Audio Resources on Structural Racism

Video and Audio Resources on Structural Racism

Free webinar: Having conversations about race in the classroom Professor of criminal justice Stephanie A. Jirard offers suggestions on how to approach […]

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What is a Social Science Essay?

What is a Social Science Essay?

We present this article, adapted from a chapter of ‘Good Essay Writing: A Social Sciences Guide,’ as a resource for Academic Writing Month.

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Teaching Students Quants is Hard Enough. Now I Have to Do It on MS Teams!

Teaching Students Quants is Hard Enough. Now I Have to Do It on MS Teams!

We have spent the best part of a decade trying, testing and honing techniques to engage and enthuse our undergrads with quantitative data analysis, explains Julie Scott Jones. Then a global pandemic arrived.

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Watch Online Conversation on ‘Reimagining Schools’

Watch Online Conversation on ‘Reimagining Schools’

Given the turmoil that 2020 has brought to the world, can we “move beyond analysis to impact”? That was a question that animated the debut online event for the “Reimagining Social Institutions” series – “Reimagining Schools.”

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Universities Have Invested in Online Learning, Providing Students with Value for Money

Universities Have Invested in Online Learning, Providing Students with Value for Money

There is no doubt that student experience as a whole will not be the same if universities move entirely online. But we must not assume that online teaching is automatically inferior to face-to-face teaching.

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