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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hall was so enamored of her cluster that she produced a short film about it, documenting how the relationships that she and the other professors had formed helped them navigate being people of color in academia. After she told him, he said, “Hmmm… the school has definitely changed.” It definitely helped me stay in the role.”

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Leave Me Alone

HESA

Recently, I was somewhat surprised to discover the sheer variety of definitions of the term “collegiality” that are found in major online dictionaries. A second definition focus on collegiality as a relationship. Note that three out of four of those definitions focus on co-operation, that is, the idea of working together.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The college’s dean, Dr. David E. The presentations spark interest and possibly ignite a passion for learning more, which is how he found his career in academia. I tell young graduate students if you’re going to become an academic, you have to definitely be published earlier than when I went to school,” he says.

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Generative AI & the Evolution of Academic Librarianship

ACRLog

Near the end of August, my dean notified the library faculty of a course offered through ALA’s eLearning platform. I first introduced the university’s academic integrity policy, including definitions of cheating and plagiarism. The course was titled Exploring AI with Critical Information Literacy and taught by Sarah Morris.

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Culture wars: contemplations of ‘class’ from an academic caught in between

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Winchester. If we don’t feel we fit into these restrictive definitions, then we may feel like certain opportunities are closed off to us, or that we don’t ‘belong’. And so I rally against things I don’t ‘get’.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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One approach is for higher administration, deans, and faculty to commit to an interdisciplinary agenda and review course syllabi for evidence of interdisciplinary focus. Definitions of interdisciplinary research: Toward graduate-level interdisciplinary learning outcomes. References Borrego, M., & Newswander, L.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

One approach is for higher administration, deans, and faculty to commit to an interdisciplinary agenda and review course syllabi for evidence of interdisciplinary focus. Definitions of interdisciplinary research: Toward graduate-level interdisciplinary learning outcomes. References Borrego, M., & Newswander, L.