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An Advocate for Equitable Health - Dr. Sabina Khan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Augustine for Health Sciences; Dr. Djora Soetman, Harvard T.H. As a professor, she prepares health science students to address systemic inequities through empathy, understanding occupational injustices, and recognizing how power dynamics shape healthcare outcomes.

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Taking Physics to the People - Dr. Christina Love

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Loves current focus is a web-based citizen science project called Name That Neutrino that she and her students created in 2023, seeking a multitude of volunteers to participate in the process. Through the research, she was able to demonstrate the utility of citizen science for classifying neutrino events in the IceCube detector.

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A Pioneer for Change - Dr. Brittany Williams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in Interdisciplinary Arts from Hampshire College; M.A. Williams credits her ability to pivot, her eagerness to study entirely new subjects, to her attendance at a small liberal arts college for her undergraduate degreeHampshire Collegein Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Italian unis set to strengthen TNE initiatives in India

The PIE News

Italy sees significant opportunities in such initiatives but we are currently [looking] at legal aspects to work out a little more recognition, Ledda told The PIE News, when asked about the possibility of Italian universities having an institutional presence in India.

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End use of nondisparagement clauses in academia (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

These kinds of gag orders may be common in corporate America, but they should raise red flags for anyone in academia. Gag orders on college campuses are all the rage right now, as Republican legislators seek to ban the discussion of critical race theory and other “divisive concepts” that offend conservative sensibilities.

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You’ll Never Walk Alone: The Power of Showing Up

ACRLog

Caelin is the Performing Arts Librarian at Arizona State University Library. She earned her Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. People often ask what made me want to be a librarian. The work shared at this past conference demonstrates this beautifully.

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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

University Business

Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. Integrating the arts into STEM (“STEAM”) has been in discussion since at least 2010, when the Rhode Island School of Design helped pioneer it. But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education.