Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Malaklou hosts events like "Evening with an Activist" at the bell hooks center, where students can learn tangible ways to make a difference outside of academia. She said this lesson is deliberate and acknowledges academia and graduate school can be “violent, especially for scholars of color, women, and queer folks of color.”

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University Business

OCTOBER 24, 2024

No corner is free from this specter—not even the hallowed halls of academia. In July 2024, the Justice Department announced that the University of Maryland paid $500,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the FCA by failing to disclose funding from Chinese companies. Where there is money, there is fraud.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

It's been something that has sustained me in academia, the service work that I do,” said Dr. Melva Treviño Peña, an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island. “To Scholarly research should be made accessible and legible for people not in academia, the scholars agreed. "My I will pass the torch to you.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

The three presidents to step down demonstrate a variety of reasons for making a change: to reengage in academia, pursue other professional opportunities or make way for new leadership during trying times. In July 2025, he will depart for a one-year sabbatical and return to the life of academia.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But if the many doomsday projections actually come to fruition, losing Twitter will be a sad day for academia. In a frequently alienating world of academia, that is huge. In addition to aiding in research discovery, Academic Twitter has become a go-to resource for locating job postings, both in academia and beyond.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

Despite questions around the value of an English degree, graduates who earned one were found to possess similar rates of life satisfaction, peak salary earnings and unemployment rates to non-English degree graduates, according to a recent report by the Association of Departments of English (ADE), a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The results reflected problems that Black academics have always known to plague academia: institutional racism and insufficient support for Black ECAs that create barriers to job security and career advancement for Black academics. There’s kind of Black academics in particular exiting academia at various stages. think tank.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As Black male scholars deeply invested in education reform, we believe it is essential to reshape the narrative surrounding Black males, especially in academia. Despite their aspirations and drive to excel, Black males in academia frequently navigate hostile environments that question their qualifications and intellect (Smith et al.,

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SRHE

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Patterns of collaboration Collaboration offers another perspective of Chinese academia’s strengths and limitations. The “international in format but national in essence” approach underscores a broader challenge for Chinese academia. Her research focuses on tertiary education and the research on research.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

I’ve not heard institutional status as an argument to invest in the English department (at least not since I started working in academia), so maybe my friends in the humanities have found a champion in Cowen. Third, Cowen worries that the best and brightest choose any career path as long as it is not academia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

It is also valuable to get input from people outside of academia, such as from career services centers, about employment trends, the report noted. “[The in English. “[It This is urgently needed in English and across the humanities.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 14, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Much of the conversation swirling around academia this summer is about leaving academia. ” What might be the conditions that encourage and enable us to remain in academia for decades and decades? Growing up, I never heard my dad talk about university and department politics. 4 - Work Less.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reports of scholars being retired early or dismissed indicate that the Iranian government has ordered a cleansing of academia in the wake of protests that have gripped the country since September. Demonstrations were triggered by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, who was accused of wearing her hijab “improperly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Recommendations: · Pre-work: University should provide departments with an anonymous, structured evaluation forms (with decision criteria and clear rubrics, just as is used to facilitate fairness in student grading) to rate the candidate both quantitatively and qualitatively. Committee members often arrive unprepared.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Outside of academia, Walker was founding president of the Center for Faith, Justice and Reconciliation; senior fellow for Religious Freedom at the Freedom Forum Institute; and member of the U.S.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

A year ago, in August 2022, several UM faculty within the Department of Writing and Rhetoric began piloting AI-powered assistants in first-year writing courses. Our department developed an AI Working Group to explore what affordance GPT-3 powered writing assistants, research assistants, and reading assistants, could offer students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

To do this work, she’s looking outside of UMD to learn new techniques that even people in her own lab are not familiar with, says Ramirez’s dissertation advisor, Dr. Katharina Maisel, an assistant professor in UMD’s Fischell Department of Bioengineering. Maisel calls the fifth year Ph.D. Grad school is so difficult.

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HEPI

APRIL 23, 2024

Obtaining funding certainly is a major distraction in some corners of academia. Pathways to professorship is more than a book, it is a major development within academia and should be on the shelves of every university library, human resources department and on the shelf of any junior academic who aspires to the title.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Preparing STEM-focused professionals to see the world through technological, human, societal, and cultural lenses is distinctive, especially when so brilliantly coupled with WPI’s research and innovation ecosystem.” Wang is a materials scientist – she holds seven U.S. patents – with experience as a leader in multiple fields.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

His mission is to transition the long-time program into a department. Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

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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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The initiative allows faculty to engage with each other across departments for career mentorship, work-life balance advice, discussions on racial and sexual identity, and more. The goal is to ensure members do not feel siloed in their specific department or unit and have a sense of belonging on campus. Sharon Inkelas. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

He is now an assistant professor in the department of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology at The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus. He envisioned a career working at a pet store or with the state wildlife department. “It’s one of my earliest memories, seeing a bat hanging somewhere and wanting to touch it.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

Prior to Emory, she served in various roles at Harvard, including director of graduate studies and chair of the admissions committee for the Department of African and African American Studies; interim chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion; and member of the provost’s academic leadership forum.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Two prominent efforts to diversify music in academia are the new University of Arkansas’ (UA) Arkansas Center for Black Music and the creation of the George Walker Center for Equity and Inclusion in Music at the University of Rochester’s (UR) Eastman School of Music (Eastman). This article was published in our June 2023 issue.

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The PIE News

MARCH 6, 2023

“Whether you’re looking for a general postgraduate degree or a more specialist qualification, we have a solution for you that will not only deliver exceptional educational results but will also set you apart from other candidates on the employment market or in academia,” states some of the promotional messages for the recruitment drives.

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Cisco blogs - Education

AUGUST 14, 2022

Australia has incredible talent across academia and industry, and one of my great career passions has been working with others to realise their combined potential. To-date, ten universities and a host of industry groups such as Woodside Energy, Cisco, BAE and Optus, as well as government departments, have come together to share in this goal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

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.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 9, 2022

My Dad fully retired from academia as he was approaching 80. Faculty on the tenure track may also assume administrative roles, such as department chair and school or university-wide leadership posts. A lack of legible next steps may push many alt-acs to pursue jobs outside academia. What about an alternative academic?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia. Are students being serviced in an efficient manner or are they struggling to understand which department to go to next? However, there is an oversight that continues to happen.

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SRHE

JULY 16, 2024

Most were women and aged between 30 and 44, with the majority based in social science departments. Indeed, one of our participants had recently left academia and another was thinking seriously about doing so. Around one-third had purposively chosen public visibility, often as part of an advocacy role within academia and wider society.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In honor of this year’s Black History Month theme, “Black Resistance,” designated by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), INSIGHT examines the role that higher education has played in Black activism and how academia can support anti-racism by empowering students and faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

It's a new attempt to tackle an old problem: the paucity of minorities in STEM departments. Since this is rooted at the institutional level in the provost’s [office], [it] adds an incentive for departments to really vie for extremely qualified diverse candidates. of STEM faculty are from minoritized backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

He is currently chair and professor in the Department of Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies at University of Saint Joseph Connecticut. I was fascinated by that." Cheah proceeded to make Asian American studies part of his career, primarily focusing his scholarship on race and religion. racial discourses," said Kim. "It

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2024

But look outside academia, and there is a world with a robust collection of data that informs the intervention process. But a more recent guide has been published by the FBI through a collaboration with the CIA and DoD (Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, and Department of Defense, respectively).

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The PIE News

JULY 9, 2024

The statutory body, which operates under India’s Department of Higher Education, has also established 116 Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centres throughout the country, which provide various teacher training programs. The existing HRDCs & PMMMNMTTs shall cohesively work to train the teachers.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2024

But look outside academia, and there is a world with a robust collection of data that informs the intervention process. But a more recent guide has been published by the FBI through a collaboration with the CIA and DoD (Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, and Department of Defense, respectively).

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