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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

W Kim Lee and Dr. Carolyn Stefanco hen the American Council on Education launched its Moving the Needle initiative over a decade ago to raise awareness about gender parity in higher education or lack thereof only 23% of college presidents or chancellors were women. in the majority white college town in the Mountain region.

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

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By Mohammed Bashiru and Professor Cai Yonghong Introduction The idea of institutional autonomy in higher education institutions (HEIs) naturally comes up when discussing academic freedom. How does institutional autonomy influence academic freedom in higher education institutions in Ghana?

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Invisible labour: visible activism

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We concluded that this form of emotional labour was a form of wife work, work that is essential to the running of the home (aka Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)) yet often undervalued and the person carries the mental load. How we uncovered the invisible Our research has two stages.

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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

Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. But for women, that number falls to around $61,000.

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

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John Cater is the longest-serving Vice-Chancellor in UK higher education, having been in post since 1993. And every cost in higher education has increased, except the tuition fee. It is fair that those who have benefitted from higher education should contribute, when earning above a threshold, to the cost of that education.

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

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Despite the light-hearted nature of the strip, it serves well as a caricature of education that addresses a real issue – the imagination, quite possibly humankind’s strongest tool, is often limited by mundane teaching practices that mostly measure a student’s ability to memorize. Neglect of Creativity in Education: A Moral Issue.”

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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.