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Women in Leadership: Empowering Change across Generations and Cultures

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Their growing presence in academia and cultures enables them to harness collective power and create environments where women of all backgrounds feel seen and valued. These efforts illustrate how womens leadership is reshaping academia into more forward-thinking spaces, and reflecting and the communities they serve.

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Bridging borders in knowledge: the internationalisation of Chinese social sciences

SRHE

In contrast, Education often highlights region-specific practices that may resonate less with a global audience, while Political Science is constrained by political sensitivities and limited opportunities for broad international collaboration. Her research focuses on tertiary education and the research on research.

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The Black Woman’s Burden: Battling Inertia in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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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.

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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. They’re there to provide access to higher education to their communities.” Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci, a Ph.D.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. Department of Education.” By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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Turnitin's solution to AI cheating raises faculty concerns

Inside Higher Ed

The technology comes out, and of course ed tech wants to come out with the detection, and then GPT is going to update in another few months,” said Michael Mindzak, an assistant professor in the department of educational studies at Brock University. “So [Turnitin’s AI detector] is not really a solution.

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