As the Netherlands-set Netflix series shows, initiation rituals lie at the heart of secret societies“Have you ever wondered how a country as small as the Netherlands became so rich and powerful?” The question is posed in the first episode of Ares, the first Dutch original series made for Netflix, released earlier this month. The show draws on the mysterious world of student fraternities, telling the story of undergraduates Rosa and

Sunderland University is offering only career-focused courses to its next student cohortSunderland University wants to become more “career-focused”. So it is to shut down all its language, politics and history courses and promote instead degrees that “align with particular employment sectors”. It’s an illustration of what happens when universities turn into businesses, and their ethos is defined by the market. It’s also symbolic of the divisions that now rend Britain’s

After a national search for a new dean of libraries, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has appointed Kasia Gonnerman to the position, starting April 1. Kasia Gonnerman Currently the director of Vanderbilt University’s Central Library, Gonnerman joins UAB’s library at a time when more than $2 million has been invested in its collections, resources and personnel, including an additional $498,000 dedicated to physical renovations. In addition, within the

The University of Kentucky’s Martin Luther King Center is hosting its first Men of Color Symposium, in collaboration with the university’s Office for Institutional Diversity and the Office of Student and Academic Life. The free, daylong symposium will be held on Thursday, Feb. 6 and will be open to students and professionals on and off campus. Ja’Mahl McDaniel, associate director of the Martin Luther King Center, described the symposium as

In the wake of a presidential search beset with political meddling, a consultant tells trustees they “swung and missed in a very high-profile way.â€

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Institutions nationwide expect enrollment declines, but the Golden State is struggling to meet demand. Freeing up seats is a start, observers say.

“4 out of 3 people have trouble with fractions.” Unknown Organizations compensate for too many projects by slicing and dicing people between projects. The figuring out and management of all these fractional people is a colossal waste of time. Assigning percentages of people’s time to projects is a sign that there are too many non-prioritized projects. Projects that fully allocate the needed resources to get desired outcomes, like working software,

Growing up on the Cattaraugus reservation, Dr. Naomi Lee was used to being surrounded by people who shared similar backgrounds and experiences to hers. However, upon leaving the reservation for college at Rochester Institute of Technology, Lee struggled with her identity. Dr. Naomi Lee “But as a student, that self-identity and not understanding why I was different from the other students at my university, it was really a struggle at