‘Unrelenting demands and stressors’: College leaders discuss mental health in academia
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 28, 2023
Johns Hopkins University held its workplace well-being summit Tuesday, focusing on graduate students and faculty.
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Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Academia Broke Me Sarah Bray Mon, 09/16/2024 - 03:00 AM Becoming an academic editor gave me my life back, writes Paulina S. Cossette, who shares the many benefits of pursuing it and other alternatives. Byline(s) Paulina S.
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Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2024
Thrive Beyond Academia Sarah Bray Mon, 08/12/2024 - 03:00 AM Amy Braun describes how honing existing skillsets through experiential learning transforms such students into industry-ready professionals. Helping Humanities Ph.D.s Byline(s) Amy Braun
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 14, 2022
The way parents and carers come together and support each other is very good news for academia. The post Can parents and carers networks help make academia more humane? Mark Gatto and Ana Lopes have done the research. appeared first on Wonkhe.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 20, 2024
Guest Post: AI Meets Academia—Navigating the New Terrain johnw@mcsweeneys.net Thu, 06/20/2024 - 03:00 AM James Bennett on how he’s using AI to help translate the ways of academia to students. Byline(s) John Warner
HEPI
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
This blog is part of a series HEPI is running with the British Academy on the changing face of academia. . With administrative, teaching and research pressures mounting in academia generally, large proportions of academics report feeling overworked and emotionally drained. Career Progression. What Works and What Would Help.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
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Insight Into Diversity
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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.
Campus Technology
APRIL 16, 2024
Skyrocketing costs of training AI foundation models have made it difficult for academia and government to keep up with industry in AI research and development, according to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).
LSE Higher Education Blog
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Such figures may not only be former academics but those working beyond academia with a diversity and richness of experiences. But these academic leaders do not commit to this action blindly or passively.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
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Such insights underscore the imperative to prioritize holistic support structures within academia to foster student well-being and academic success. The prevailing narrative of academia glorifies productivity and resilience while overlooking the human aspect of our experiences. Regrettably, my journey mirrors that of numerous Ph.D.
Today's Learner
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
ChatGPT in academia: Is the future artificial? Thinking about the pros of ChatGPT in academia Research Assistance: ChatGPT may help academics locate relevant research papers, summarize publications, or provide quick information on a variety of topics, possibly saving them time and energy in the process of information retrieval.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 22, 2023
The hashtag, which continues to grow each day and has turned into an independent Twitter account, has spotlighted the ways academia has persistently excluded and alienated Black academics (at all levels; across all genders). Brandy Jones is a Ph.D.
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 25, 2023
Why Reading ‘Unscripted’ Will Make You Happy You Chose Academia Featured Image at Top of Article Redstone Cover.jpg joshua.m.kim@d… Wed, 04/26/2023 - 12:01 AM
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
According to the report, faculty of color can be subject to several “taxes” in academia. We need to look at the system-level influences and structures that make it difficult for faculty of color to thrive in academia." It's not going to be fixed or solved by trying to address it on one level.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The tech industry might be able to outspend and outhire academia. But Itegbeyogene Patrick Ezekiel explains that universities have research strengths in artificial intelligence that business cant always match
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 5, 2024
Even within the supposedly safe confines of academia, we are not immune to these oppressive practices. The presence of such signs serves as a constant reminder of the systemic racism that treats people from diverse cultural backgrounds and people of color as second-class citizens.
Academe Blog
JANUARY 24, 2023
BY MICHAEL SCHWALBE Years ago, I was speaking with a colleague about one of the paradoxes of university life: tenured faculty enjoy more job security than almost any other occupational group in US society, yet they are often afraid to fight for their interests as a group. My colleague accounted for this lack of collective…
University Business
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Unfortunately for the world of academia, these are not isolated incidents. The post Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. As the news broke, another prominent researcher at Harvard University, lauded for her research on dishonesty, was placed on administrative leave for her allegedly fraudulent research. What can we do?
Wonkhe
JANUARY 18, 2023
Inequity in access to research funding drives disadvantage throughout academia. Tanita Casci and Jenny Gladstone see the need for action at every level The post Equitable research funding requires concerted action appeared first on Wonkhe.
Campus Technology
JUNE 30, 2023
Much can be learned from embracing artificial intelligence in the teaching and learning process. Here, two professors share their experiences using ChatGPT freely in the classroom.
The Berkeley Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2024
The NSF grant will fund training at eight universities across the West Coast aimed at bridging the “valley of death” between academia and entrepreneurship. The post Berkeley to lead “Innovation Hub” helping turn basic research into innovative businesses appeared first on Berkeley News.
The Berkeley Blog
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Some of the best jobs in academia are to be a professor of Cooperative Extension at Berkeley. The Cooperative Extension is one of the greatest inventions of the American educational system, designed to transfer knowledge to and learn from the experience of practitioners in agriculture and industry.
LSE Higher Education Blog
JUNE 14, 2024
Sam Illingworth talks to Jennie Blake, Kirsten Jack, Martin Kratz and Mala Radhakrishnan about how they use poetry in their learning and teaching
HEPI
OCTOBER 30, 2022
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2023
I am aging faster in academia. It is no secret that women scholars of color die earlier in academia and are less likely to be in leadership positions in upper administration in higher education institutions. Tricia Hersey, author of Rest is Resistance, reminds us academia is the headquarters for grind culture. This is 35.
Inside Higher Ed
JULY 8, 2024
Mentoring relationships in academia have long been a focus of research studies, which have been investigating and shedding light on the ways mentoring impacts graduate students’ and postdocs’ trajectories.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 13, 2023
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.”
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
It's been something that has sustained me in academia, the service work that I do,” said Dr. Melva Treviño Peña, an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island. “To Scholarly research should be made accessible and legible for people not in academia, the scholars agreed. "My
Educause
OCTOBER 24, 2022
The landscape of admin rights across academia looks much the same today as it did five years ago. While many institutions still grant admin rights to all employees, no questions asked, others are looking to strengthen their policies.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 2, 2024
However, this is not about President Gay’s specific case; it is about the larger canvas it paints – a chilling tableau where anti-Blackness and misogyny find fertile ground even in the progressive halls of academia. Where whispers can become weapons, and accusations, however baseless, can topple giants.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
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Yet, we have used only the tools of academia to defend academia to non-academics who are attacking academia. We need to build a Love-based academia. One that does not fret over who says what when, but rather how our students feel in an academia that has shunned them for so long. We know this.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 24, 2024
A common exhortation from today’s leadership gurus in academia and popular media is to “be authentic” or your “true self” at work. Being true to ourselves is a barometer of well-being, but what if aspects of our true selves are counterproductive for us or our institution? Gunsalus, Nicholas C. Burbules and Thomas Byrne offer some answers.
SRHE
JULY 19, 2024
Just about everyone in academia is dealing with some aspect of their lives which affects how they do their work. Addressing Inequalities: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated existing inequalities in academia. By participating in this research, you can play a crucial role in shaping the future of academia.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 11, 2023
The answer is a function of careful political calculation on the part of those posing the question, but also a deeper and more troubling confusion about the role of academia in polarized America and the expec
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 14, 2024
The results reflected problems that Black academics have always known to plague academia: institutional racism and insufficient support for Black ECAs that create barriers to job security and career advancement for Black academics. There’s kind of Black academics in particular exiting academia at various stages. think tank.
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University Business
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However, academia hasn’t caught up with these current technological advances, including AI. The urgency for academia and higher education institutions to recognize the rapid changes in the job market and the need for immediate adaptation is pressing. It’s an in-depth, deep-rooted one that requires many perspectives.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 24, 2023
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 23, 2024
In addition, research shows that whites are significantly more likely to occupy higher-ranking roles in academia than African Americans, Asian Americans and other races and ethnic groups. For instance, nationwide, only about 6% of faculty are Black, just over 5% are Hispanic or Latino and only about 1% are Native American.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
As Black male scholars deeply invested in education reform, we believe it is essential to reshape the narrative surrounding Black males, especially in academia. Despite their aspirations and drive to excel, Black males in academia frequently navigate hostile environments that question their qualifications and intellect (Smith et al.,
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
The wide-ranging survey also queried higher ed IT leaders and administrators on the potential uses — and abuses — of the latest text-generating GPT 3 tools and looked at what colleges and universities have done in the first few months since the world got a glimpse of OpenAI's ChatGPT and fretted over its potential misuse in academia.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
But if the many doomsday projections actually come to fruition, losing Twitter will be a sad day for academia. In a frequently alienating world of academia, that is huge. In addition to aiding in research discovery, Academic Twitter has become a go-to resource for locating job postings, both in academia and beyond.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
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