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Racial and Gender Inequities Found in Field of Educational Measurement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Racial and gender inequities still plague the field of educational measurement, from professional rank to salary, across academia, industry, and leadership roles. Rodriguez said he hopes to learn more about these written responses, particularly as they relate to leadership positions both in academia and the industry.

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Clusterluck: A Spark of Black Joy in the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s a perfect rejoinder to the grim tone of just seconds earlier and an eloquent statement of the film’s purpose: to offer an alternative to the negativity that can pervade discussion of the Black experience in academia and to reflect the beauty that can grow when faculty of color are supported and support each other. It’s spectacular.”

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Scholars Respond to the Death of a University Administrator

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many Black women also suffer intersectional discrimination out in the world, which can lead to trauma, mental health challenges, and “racial battle fatigue,” even before they step foot into academia. Rather, schools can still do better to support their people and create more welcoming and equitable environments," he added.

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Assessing individual research performance

HEPI

These ideas have been naïvely imported into academia where individual performance, especially regarding research, is assessed by means of volume and metrics. Also, unlike sales, recruitment or production, numbers can be gamed, and it is glaringly obvious in some sectors of academia and in some countries in Europe that this happens.

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Black and Hispanic Students Far Less Likely to Receive Race-Matched Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. That means making sure that people get tenure and stay in academia. For non-tenure track positions, it means paying a reasonable wage and giving a reasonable workload and a pleasant work environment.”

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Dr. Karen Carey

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Karen Carey was appointed chancellor in November 2020 after serving as provost and dean of graduate studies since June 2016. Carey came to UAS from California State University Channel Islands in Ventura, California, where she served as dean of Arts & Sciences. She earned her Ph.D.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

We put all students in the same learning environment and expect that one learning environment will lead to the same outcome for all students. I wonder sometimes if the work we see students submit that maybe isn’t as awesome as we’d like, if it’s because of the way we’ve set up the learning environment.