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Taking Physics to the People - Dr. Christina Love

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

2022-2025, received funding of $541,879 from the National Science Foundation over three years. The whole idea of citizen science fits into Loves goal of sharing scientific research and knowledge with those outside of the field and even outside of academia. The research project, IceCube Data Analysis in the U.S. Loves Ph.D.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Throughout 2022, Ball State University has made significant progress on its five-year Inclusive Excellence Plan, which aims to advance broad DEI goals across the university, including campus culture, policies and infrastructure, and recruitment and retention. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York.

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Germany reaches record high with 380k international students

The PIE News

The rise in first-year international students is particularly significant, with nearly 114,700 beginning their studies in Germany in the 2022 academic year – another record for the country. Since 2010, Germany has experienced steady growth in the number of incoming international students.

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Invisible labour: visible activism

SRHE

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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Emotional labour in the ivory tower: highlighting the experiences of academics of colour

HEPI

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In this blog, my aim is to bring together a few exemplars of experiences by people of colour within academia. Emotional labour has several meanings, and inevitably some are context dependent. Get our updates via email.

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The Black Woman’s Burden: Battling Inertia in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Malaklou hosts events like "Evening with an Activist" at the bell hooks center, where students can learn tangible ways to make a difference outside of academia. She said this lesson is deliberate and acknowledges academia and graduate school can be “violent, especially for scholars of color, women, and queer folks of color.”

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The College of Saint Rose to Close Permanently at the End of School Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the school had 118 full-time faculty and 107 part-time faculty in Fall 2022. The school had 2,200 undergrads in 2020, but only about 1,800 in 2022. “We As for the students, their fates remain unknown.

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