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Navigating chronic illness in academia: An early career perspective

HEPI

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.

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Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do?

University Business

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. Unfortunately for the world of academia, these are not isolated incidents. The post Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril.

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Silenced Voices: Confronting Linguistic Discrimination and Cultural Erasure in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even within the supposedly safe confines of academia, we are not immune to these oppressive practices. Administrators and faculty members are responsible for confronting these unjust behaviors head-on. They are warriors in the truest sense, battling against unimaginable odds.

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Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

SRHE

A first set of findings from the project relates to how organisational, administrative and scholarly processes work in ways which render this group invisible. Finally, we conducted 20 interviews with ancillary staff, recruited through a diversity of routes and with a diversity of backgrounds and roles.

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Unmasking the complexities of academic work

SRHE

Understanding the source of academic work unhappiness is important: unhappy academics lead to unhappy students and stressed-out administrators. Just about everyone in academia is dealing with some aspect of their lives which affects how they do their work. Some are neurodiverse, with neurodiverse teenagers at home.

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Have You Told Yourself, “I Love You,” Today?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

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Poll: Majority of Higher Ed Leaders Optimistic About Generative AI

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

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.

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