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Understanding Academic Exile After the 2024 Election

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s a label that marks us as “unwelcome” and our scholarship as “controversial.” And while it’s incredibly unsettling, I believe there’s a powerful irony here – when we’re pressured and marginalized, our scholarship often grows stronger and more urgent. Our voices not only tell untold stories but demand new ways of thinking.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. A Project Belonging survey was conducted in spring 2024 that gathered data from 881 Latinx students about belonging, engagement and self-confidence. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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Open Access: It’s Not Just a Nice Thing to Do

ACRLog

Editor’s Note: Please join us in welcoming Brianna Calomino, Digital Projects Librarian at the University of Calgary, as a new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger for the 2024-2025 year here at ACRLog. It takes down the ivory towers of academia, bringing publicly funded research back to the public. motto in academia.

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Austrade awards students across India at SAEC 2024

The PIE News

SAEC 2024, which saw participation from 33 student teams across prominent institutions in India, had students working in multidisciplinary teams to build tech-enabled solutions to solve real-world problems on one of the two themes – global net zero goals and artificial intelligence. Runner-ups bagged scholarships and cash prizes.

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Searching for the Optimal Class Design to Maximize Learning

Faculty Focus

Reflecting on my years in academia, I find myself increasingly drawn to the challenge of designing the optimal classone that not only engages students but also maximizes student learning. Enhancing learning through the scholarship of teaching and learning: The challenges and joys of juggling. References McKinney, K. Sweller, J.,

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Invisible labour: visible activism

SRHE

Therefore, at the 2024 SRHE conference we delivered our paper on Invisible Labour: Visible Activism and argued that it is only such activism that will help to end the inequities in HEIs. *we Therefore, there is a pressing need for activism to ensure equitable recognition and valuation of women’s contributions within academia.

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Security, assurance & a pathway to professional life – the UK’s Graduate Route

The PIE News

In 2016, I received a scholarship of £9,000 to pursue my undergraduate studies at Coventry University. While this scholarship eased some of the financial burden, it was clear that I would still need to secure additional funding to cover the remaining tuition fees. Fast forward to 2021, and I found myself facing a pivotal decision.