Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

Students 98

Students Faculty Higher Education Engineering 98

SRHE

MARCH 28, 2024

by Samantha Wilkinson Feedback has been heralded the most significant single influence on student learning and achievement ( Gibbs and Simpson, 2004 ). I toyed with the idea of keeping mistakes in, thinking they would make me appear more human. Prior to this, she was a Lecturer in Human Geography at the same institution.

Environment 98

Environment Students Humanities Academia 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Arts And Sciences 131

Arts And Sciences Technology Advise Faculty 131

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress.

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Scholarship Leadership Advocate History 119

SRHE

JANUARY 26, 2024

I addressed the ways in which administrative staff and professional services staff are included within academic research, as a representation of their human capital, roles and responsibilities, the ‘minions of management’ that Dopson & McNay discuss leads to an absence of voice and authority.

Inclusivity 89

Inclusivity Administration Environment Higher Education 89

Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. Lafer, Gordon (2004). The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy. [Editor's Note: Please let us know of any additions or corrections.] Books Alexander, Bryan (2020). Selingo, J.

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History Higher Education Academia Law School 52