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Buried Alive: The (Un) told Stories of Black Women in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The April 2021 killing of Daunte Wright and the March 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor, both at the hands of police officers, have ignited new waves of protests and calls for reform. Finally, we join Black women within academia in their call for structural change, no longer are we asking for reformation; we want a revolution.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D. In New York City?

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English majors earn similar salary earnings, life quality than other degree holders, report

University Business

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. The majority of data was pulled from records between 2018 and 2021. For example, the rate was 2.13% for humanities degree holders, 2.0%

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The Program Went On As Planned

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. It is important to note that, despite the presumed or actual shortcomings of his two-year presidential stint, Wingard was, in 2021, Temple’s first Black president since its founding in 1884. Dr. Crystal A.

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From Likes to Learning: Enhancing Classroom Culture through Social Media Engagement   

Faculty Focus

Particularly interesting is the notable increase in social media interaction among everyone, including undergraduate students, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as documented in a March 2021 Vox article. Social media reflects the spectrum of human emotion and can be a powerful educational tool.

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From Likes to Learning: Enhancing Classroom Culture through Social Media Engagement   

Faculty Focus

Particularly interesting is the notable increase in social media interaction among everyone, including undergraduate students, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as documented in a March 2021 Vox article. Social media reflects the spectrum of human emotion and can be a powerful educational tool.

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My Marking Life: The Role of Emotional Labour in delivering Audio Feedback to HE Students

SRHE

Whilst the affectual impact of feedback on students has been well documented in the literature ( eg McFarlane and Wakeman, 2011 ), there is little in the academic literature on the affectual impact of the feedback process on markers ( Henderson-Brooks, 2021 ). Prior to this, she was a Lecturer in Human Geography at the same institution.