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How to develop a high impact research paper: the case of feedback literacy

LSE Higher Education Blog

Rejections are ubiquitous in academia, and represent an opportunity to reflect, revise, and move forward The article was rejected by the first target journal with the negative reviewer finding it reliant on creative synthesis by the authors as opposed to using more clearly defined processes of systematic review methodology.

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Burnout and Work-Work Balance

Inside Higher Ed

In my book Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022), I dive deep into my personal experience and share those of other women from across academia with the goal of shedding light and providing language for us to have open conversations about this workplace phenomenon.

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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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Hong Kong launches new graduate visa

The PIE News

” “Building a sustainable and liveable Hong Kong will definitely facilitate the University of Hong Kong and other local universities to attract international talents, enhance the overall competitiveness of Hong Kong academia and build a strong pool of talent for the region and the country,” the statement added.

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Hearing the voices of care-experienced academics

SRHE

Definitive numbers do not yet exist, but it is estimated there are at least 5,000 care-experienced students in UK universities at any given time. Indeed, one of our participants had recently left academia and another was thinking seriously about doing so.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gaston Gayles directly addressed the toxicity of the constantly productive, highly competitive environment in academia. When that’s in place, they feel student success is definitely impacted—the students feel like they belong and can thrive there, and they have multiple people checking in on them,” said Youngblood.

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First time attendee at ACRL 2023: Getting there can be enough 

ACRLog

March has gone by so fast, and that’s definitely in part because of the ACRL 2023 conference. Maybe you expected this post to be more of a conference report, and I will definitely shout out some of the work I saw later, but I start with this to normalize the mental health struggles that can come with conference attendance.