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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.

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Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Dies at 67

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years. Blank Center for Campus History and a professorship in her honor. UWM recently named the Rebecca M.

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Empowering educators: Academic convergence with industry for enhanced student employability

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly written by Veronica Omeni, Principal Consultant at QS Quacquarelli Symonds. These experiences provide academics with an updated understanding of employer needs, foster opportunities for industry-relevant research, secure funding, and establish improved links between academia and businesses.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The institution has a storied history.

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Discussion Topics for Book Clubbing ‘After the Ivory Tower Falls’

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It by Will Bunch. ” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. Published in August of 2022. I’m hearing rumbles of book clubbing.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? Like most underrepresented scholars, I consider these students my own, and mentoring them is a privilege and a blessing.

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Working-Class and working in higher education: possibilities and pedagogies

SRHE

by Carli Rowell This blog reports on presentations and discussion at an SRHE event on 1 February 2023. The talk addressed some key emerging findings shaping working-class doctoral researcher experiences of getting in and getting on in UK academia.