Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans. Throughout the report, “Exploring the Educational Experiences of Black and Hispanic PhDs in STEM,” it is clear that Black, and to some extent Hispanic, students have very different experiences than their white and Asian counterparts.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). Lucie Wheeler is a Research Assistant in education. She blogs here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

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University Business

MARCH 9, 2023

An unexpected 2% decline in K12 enrollment is putting a kink in the higher education pipeline, spreading the ramifications from kindergarten up into the halls of academia. “Higher education planners and policymakers are grappling with the lingering impacts of COVID-19 on college enrollment,” the authors of the report warn.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Interdisciplinary Studies: Breaking Boundaries for Comprehensive Learning Interdisciplinary studies, as an approach to education, research, and problem-solving, break down traditional boundaries between academic fields, encouraging collaboration and integration of knowledge from diverse areas. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012). 2017; Liu et al.,

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. Clover, D.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education. Integrating the arts into STEM (“STEAM”) has been in discussion since at least 2010, when the Rhode Island School of Design helped pioneer it. More from UB: Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Interdisciplinary Studies: Breaking Boundaries for Comprehensive Learning Interdisciplinary studies, as an approach to education, research, and problem-solving, break down traditional boundaries between academic fields, encouraging collaboration and integration of knowledge from diverse areas. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012). 2017; Liu et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Established in 2010 as a key pillar of Beijing’s Thousand Talents Program, the Young Thousand Talents (YTT) initiative seeks to recruit science and technology experts from abroad, especially among Chinese expatriates.

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SRHE

MARCH 28, 2024

Despite written feedback being the norm in Higher Education, the literature highlights the benefit of audio feedback. Whilst there is a growing body of literature evaluating audio feedback from the perspective of students, the experiences of academics providing audio feedback have been explored less ( Ekinsmyth, 2010 ).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. Clover, D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

We often don’t allow ourselves these moments of connection because connection requires vulnerability and vulnerability goes against everything we’ve been taught about expertise, authority, and credibility in academia. Social Psychology of Education, 14, 319-330. International Journal of Education Research 10, no. Huddy, Shannon.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. It Isn’t Loving Me Back.” ” It’s a tough read.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

What confirmed that his mentors — Latino college advisors, speaking from the pain of personal experience — had given him some bad advice were the happenings he witnessed in 2010 at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference. And it wasn’t that we were fighting society or academia.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: When Julianna Barnes set her sights on a career in academia, she envisioned eventually becoming a vice president of an institution and assumed it would be her pinnacle role in the profession. ” An American Association of Community Colleges analysis of an upcoming report by the American Council on Education shows that 36.6

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SRHE

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the REF puts it we should be “illustrating the benefits research delivers beyond academia, including how it brings tangible changes to aspects of society and life, and the public value it delivers”. Educational research is about improving the opportunities and outcomes for those in education. by Finley Lawson.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 20, 2023

Higher education has long been regarded as a pathway to success and the “middle class,” promising personal and professional growth opportunities. Clark Kerr’s California Experiment exacerbated this in the 1960s, transforming higher education in California and the United States.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

We often don’t allow ourselves these moments of connection because connection requires vulnerability and vulnerability goes against everything we’ve been taught about expertise, authority, and credibility in academia. Social Psychology of Education, 14, 319-330. International Journal of Education Research 10, no. Huddy, Shannon.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

12 December · Episode 185 AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education 49 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” He said he has seen “incremental” progress since a 2010 report. The most valued coin of the realm remains not just the book—especially for early and midcareer scholars—but a particular kind of book known only in academia and scholarly publishing as a ‘monograph.’”

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

by Sam Elkington and Jill Dickinson Wednesday September 13 th was the final instalment of the three-part SRHE ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposia series, delivered in partnership with series co-convenors Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

No question, the vast bulk of English literature students will not become the next David McCullough or, less ambitiously, make their livings in academia dissecting the finer points of the Bronte sisters for graduate students or the readers of obscure journals. (Perhaps that’s part of why the number of U.S. New tools.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The benefit of the SRHE and its Blog has been in providing a sense of community for those who have to and do think about the purpose, the benefits and the travails of higher education. It is the stuff of academia. Help is needed to understand the forces and values which are changing the nature of academia and what counts as knowledge.

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SRHE

JUNE 9, 2023

The first was in the form of a statement explaining why plenty of information was provided (‘in order to demystify the admissions process, as part of our commitment to enhancing inclusivity in doctoral education’). Her research interests broadly concern equity in higher education, feminisms in academia and inclusive pedagogies.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The gap between higher education and the workplace will only widen should we overlook our role as educators in developing these personal skills in students. Passive teaching methods, such as rote-memorisation and large-format lectures still dominate academia, despite research calling for more appropriate ways of instruction.

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ACRLog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There are the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education , the Medical Library Association’s specialized Professional Competencies ,as well as the Reference and User Services Association’s Professional Competencies for Reference and User Services Librarians , but not profession-wide competencies.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2025

OBITUARY Claire Sorrel Callender By Simon Marginson * Professor Claire Callender OBE, who held joint professorships at UCL Institute of Education and Birkbeck, University of London, died at home amid her family on Tuesday, 15 April, after the cancer which developed in one lung and was in remission had moved to the other.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 3, 2023

Roberto 'Cintli' Rodriguez – award-winning Chicano activist, writer, and educator – died Monday, The Tucson Sentinel reported. Dr. Roberto Rodriguez Rodriguez, who was once a staff writer for Black Issues In Higher Education and later Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, died of heart failure in Teotihuacan, Mexico.

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SRHE

JANUARY 26, 2024

In particular, understanding access, participation and inclusion for those who align with the different protected characteristics (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) has been of interest to academic research, given various political movements to widen access to higher education.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

This remarkable achievement sent shockwaves throughout the education sector, especially among teachers in schools and colleges. Perhaps it is not surprising that the educational sector is not best prepared for such an innovation. Consequently, education and learning were due for a revolution.

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JULY 9, 2023

This remarkable achievement sent shockwaves throughout the education sector, especially among teachers in schools and colleges. Perhaps it is not surprising that the educational sector is not best prepared for such an innovation. Consequently, education and learning were due for a revolution.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

SRHE News is now 50 issues old, covering a momentous 12 years for higher education worldwide, but especially in the UK, and even more especially in England – an opportunity to reflect on what we thought and how we felt as it happened, and whether things seem different now. No 4 The English experiment ).

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HESA

APRIL 13, 2023

This week’s guest on The World of Higher Education podcast is Enora Bennetot Pruvot, Deputy Director Governance, Funding & Public Policy Development at the European University Association and she joins me today from Brussels to talk about the EUA’s recently-released University Autonomy Scorecard, of which she was a co-author.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

by Erika Kalocsányiová and Rania Hassan Promoting sustainability literacy in higher education is crucial for deepening students’ pro-environmental behaviour and mindset ( Buckler & Creech, 2014 ; UNESCO, 1997 ), while also fostering social transformation by embedding sustainability at the core of the student experience.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2025

April 8, 2025 · Episode 254 Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education 36 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. Faculty surveys are a familiar practice in higher education, but many institutions fall short when it comes to using that data to drive long-term change.

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