A political newcomer, Daniel Noboa, M.P.S. ’22, has won the presidency of Ecuador. As a student at GW’s Graduate School of Political Management within the College of Professional Studies, Noboa studied political communication and strategic governance. Noboa is the heir to one of Ecuador’s richest families. His father, Álvaro Noboa, was an unsuccessful presidential candidate … Read more
GLOBAL Last month’s United Nations report on Transforming Education, which highlighted the lack of progress towards SDG 4, the Sustainable Development Goal associated with access to education, should come as no surprise where the access to tertiary education component of this goal is concerned. We undertook research with over 300 organisations across the world in … Read more
UNITED STATES-GLOBAL The Synthetic University: How higher education can benefit from shared solutions and save itself, by James L Shulman, is published by Princeton University Press, 2023. ISBN 9780691190990. James L Shulman, the vice president and chief operating officer for the American Council of Learned Societies, can tell a good story, actually, several of them. … Read more
NIGER-BURKINA FASO-FRANCE Students in Burkina Faso and Niger, who have been blocked from studying in France through that country’s withdrawal of visa facilities, are being urged to consider alternative higher education options for the upcoming academic year. With the French government standing firm over its closure of consular services in these countries, as well as … Read more
Franklin & Marshall College earned the highest score of the three Lancaster County colleges ranked in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges lists. The local colleges saw a mix of improvement and decline compared to their counterparts in the north and across the nation. Franklin & Marshall College ranked 35 out of … Read more
FRANCE-AFRICA France has suspended student mobility with Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso and told new students from those countries who were about to start studies in France that they may not come after all. Current scholarship students without valid visas will also not be able to travel to France. The French government has cited security … Read more
Two colleges in Illinois are among the top 15 Best Colleges in the nation, with several others in the state and in the Midwest among the top 50, according to a new study from U.S. News & World Report. The list, titled “2024 Best Colleges,” released Monday by U.S. News & World Report, ranks 1,500 … Read more
GLOBAL A core role of universities is to produce quality graduates for the economy and society, with the knowledge and skills they need to secure a job and to succeed. In today’s world of climate chaos and global challenges, the imperative that graduates also make a positive contribution to the world has driven a global … Read more
GSEHD alumna Melvina Noel, Ed.D.’00, has published a book titled “Chef Edna: Queen of Southern Cooking, Edna Lewis.” Noel’s work is a warm and inviting picture book portrait of African American culinary legend Edna Lewis. The chef grew up in Freetown, Virginia and carried her roots to New York, where she became a celebrated chef who … Read more
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Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Most of our fall fellows are Texans, by birth or by choice, and are motivated to make their communities stronger through journalism. Many said they chose The Texas Tribune because our mission to … Read more