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Navigating chronic illness in academia: An early career perspective

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Rebecca Williams is a Lecturer in Environmental Law at Edinburgh Napier University. Previously she was a Teaching Fellow and the Interim Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance at the University of Strathclyde. By Rebecca Williams. in 2020/21. of undergraduates have a known disability.

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Germany reaches record high with 380k international students

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In the winter semester 2023/24, some 379,900 international students were enrolled at German universities, an increase of 3% compared to the previous year, according to newly published data from DAAD. Since 2010, Germany has experienced steady growth in the number of incoming international students. .

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Restoring academic values: a key for university effectiveness

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Of particular concern in this article is how the academic role interacts with other stakeholders, especially the government regulators and university corporate leaders. , takes a systemic perspective to consider a range of roles needed for HE to function effectively in the more accountable HE environment of today (Kenny, 2025).

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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Also, graduates of such schools are not likely to receive offers for positions in academia. “If

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You’ll Never Walk Alone: The Power of Showing Up

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Caelin is the Performing Arts Librarian at Arizona State University Library. She earned her Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Year Was 2010 I have wanted to be a librarian since I was 21. One colleague, Anali, said, Youre on our team.

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Core-Skills Based or Task-Focused Academic Librarianship?

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Charlotte Higgins, Greek Myths: A New Retelling I read an interesting column in University Affairs that argues work in academia is often task-focused. In the forecourt of his temple were inscribed the words ‘Know yourself’, since it was only with self-knowledge that a human could unravel the confusing tangle of the priestess’s words.

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Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

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Two notable exceptions, both in the US context, are Peter Magolda’s (2016) ethnography of cleaners on two university campuses, The Lives of Campus Custodians , and Verónica Caridad Rabelo and Ramaswami Mahalingam’s ( 2019 ) article, reporting on a mixed-method study of cleaners conducted in a single institution. She blogs here.