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Inside Higher Education

• Denmark tries to shift enrollments away from urban areas January 21, 2022
  Image: Academics working in Denmark’s biggest urban centers fear widespread job cuts as a government drive to redistribute student places to smaller cities and towns reaches its endgame. Universities have been forced to draw up plans to cut their enrollments in Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen and Odense by 10 percent by 2030 under a decentralization plan unveiled by […]
  Ben Upton for Times Higher Education
• NCAA adopts new constitution, policies for trans athletes January 21, 2022
  Image: A new NCAA constitution is now in place despite the objections of some members who voted against the proposal Thursday. They dissented for a variety of reasons, including that too much money and power are concentrated in the hands of Division I schools, to the detriment of others. The vote to approve a new constitution passed […]
  Josh Moody
• Jordan Peterson retires from U of Toronto January 21, 2022
  Image: Controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson resigned from his tenured professorship at the University of Toronto, he said this week. Peterson, 59, wrote in an op-ed in Canada’s National Post that he’d always imagined working in academe until he died. Now he doesn’t want to be there anymore, and the place doesn’t want him, he says. Peterson […]
  Colleen Flaherty
• Thunderbird to offer online business program in 40 languages January 21, 2022
  Image: The Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University plans to launch a new global management and entrepreneurship online certificate program that will offer five free online business courses in 40 languages worldwide and aims to reach 100 million learners by 2030, 70 percent of them women. The program was announced by the university Thursday and […]
  Suzanne Smalley