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Dominican University VP builds hope for first-gen students

Inside Higher Ed

This time, I was fortunate to have an adviser, coaches and a myriad of mentors who didn’t allow me to retrench into my skewed perceptions of myself. This past fall, we welcomed the largest first-year class in our history—at a time when college enrollment is dropping nationwide. But I was lucky.

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Which Side Are You On?

Inside Higher Ed

Perhaps most striking is the formation of 16 graduate student unions and a dozen for postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers between 2013 and 2019—a trend that has persisted since the pandemic struck. Academia is a calling. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

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In sum, we seem to be edging closer to repeating the history of rail privatisation. By January 2019 we had resorted to more football analogies (No 35 Academia: the beautiful game? ): … m ore research is needed. Then academia could be a beautiful game. No 13 On the right track? ). And more teaching.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist.” .