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Despite Increased Visibility, Asian Americans Continue to Face Barriers in Academia

Insight Into Diversity

But I would say those are the exceptions, not the rules,” says Nicholas Hartlep, PhD, the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education at Berea College, whose research focuses on race and equity — particularly concerning the experiences of Asian Americans — in academia. This article was published in our January/February 2024 issue.

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supporters of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) welcomed Howard University's announcement late last week of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Cole "cannot do."

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Bridging borders in knowledge: the internationalisation of Chinese social sciences

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In a recent study published in Policy Reviews in Higher Education , we analyzed 8,962 publications by the top 500 most productive China-affiliated scholars in Economics, Education, and Political Science between 2016 and 2020. He has extensively published on academic knowledge production in communication studies and beyond.

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The Impact of Non-Evaluative Feedback and Mindfulness in Writing

Faculty Focus

The Role of Feedback Feedback is powerful as it can motivate or discourage students from learning (Ferris, 2018; Macklin, 2016). Within academia, the most common feedback approaches, whether summative or formative, are often guided by criticism because assessment traditionally focuses on what is missing or incorrect. Random House, NY.

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How Universities and Governments interact: the scope and limits of regulation and influence

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This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. There are always interesting ‘moments’ in the relationship between incoming governments and universities. Universities however retained their autonomy. This led to two major developments.

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

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For instance, institutional autonomy and academic freedom are widely acknowledged as essential for the optimization of university operations in most African nations. Universities offer the necessary space for the exercise of academic freedom, and thus, institutional autonomy is necessary for its preservation.

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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. As an undergraduate at an R1, major public research university, I struggled to find a sense of belonging on campus.