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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This increase, while notable, also highlights the persistent challenges that remain in achieving true gender equity at the highest levels of academia. Her meteoric rise is particularly noteworthy given the historical barriers faced by women of color in academia. in the majority white college town in the Mountain region.

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Invisible labour: visible activism

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Shining a light on invisible labour Despite the increase in womens participation in the workforce and in academia, there is still a significant gender pay gap and to compound the issue, this gap widened in 2021 and 2022 in 20/33 OECD countries. How we uncovered the invisible Our research has two stages.

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Effect of Institutional Autonomy on Academic Freedom in Higher Education Institutions in Ghana

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The incorporation of corporate governance into academia introduces a set of values and priorities that can restrict the traditional autonomy and academic freedom that define a self-governing profession. Perspectives: Nicol, D. Nokkala, T., & Bacevic, J.

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women comprise the majority of English majors – they earned nearly 69% of all English bachelor’s degrees in 2014 – but are generally paid less, according to the report. It is also valuable to get input from people outside of academia, such as from career services centers, about employment trends, the report noted. “[The

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Changing the Face of Nursing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the summer of 2014, Crystal Jackson was working as a manager of nurse education in Ferguson, Missouri. This paucity is mirrored in academia, where only 19.2% Michael Brown, a Black teenager, had been fatally shot by a white police officer, and the city was on fire. Such nurses represent just 19.4% 14-18 at Vanderbilt.

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The Components of the Imagination: Practical Applications of an Innovative but Underused Tool 

Faculty Focus

Cropley’s (2014, 634) analysis of how teachers view creativity, he found that educators’ “evocation of ‘more creativity’ has been limited to rhetorical flourishes in policy documents and/or relegated to the borderlands of the visual and performing arts.” References Cropley, Arthur J. Neglect of Creativity in Education: A Moral Issue.”

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Walking down the road to Kingdom Come: some steps away from a Higher Education Funding Crisis?

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First raised in the Times Higher in October 2014 as a possible response to the political bind Labour and the Liberal Democrats found themselves on tuition fees, with wider recent coverage (see, for example, Palmer et al (2023)), student loan forgiveness costs “look highly affordable compared with some other workforce policies and interventions”.