How to Look After Yourself in Higher Education
Personal insights from a range of higher education voices on how they preserve their own well-being.
The former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and current president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences makes the case for more humanities studies and argues that science shouldn't be leveraged in geopolitics
Nicholas Dirks is a higher education leader, historian, former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and the current president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences.
In this interview he explains why interdisciplinarity might be harder to achieve than some might think, how to communicate the public good of science to various audiences, and if science should be leveraged in geopolitics.
Personal insights from a range of higher education voices on how they preserve their own well-being.
Learn what contributes to quality research across an institution and how that work should be kept secure
Hear three US academic experts discuss what role assessment should play in higher education and how it can be improved.
Interdisciplinary thinking is crucial to addressing complex questions but how should it work in practice? Two leading academic proponents of cross-disciplinary working draw on their own groundbreaking scholarship to explain.
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