Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

As a faculty member, I've always been either the only Black person in my entire college or in my department. We're sharing our scholarship but we're also sharing little bits of who we are as humans. Amidst the stressors of academia and social media, the panelists spoke about finding joy and taking breaks from being online. "In

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. in philosophy. in English. “[It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Dr. Corey D.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. Third, Cowen worries that the best and brightest choose any career path as long as it is not academia.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In November I helped with two major outreach initiatives, a conference and a multi-day medical humanities event series, neither of which would have had any hope of success if they had fallen on the shoulders of one individual as opposed to a team. Culture of Personality So, whats with this dissidence?

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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

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

JUNE 20, 2024

The problem Ramirez’s doctoral research is looking into has to do with structural changes to lymph nodes in the human body and how such changes relate to the functionality of the overall immune system. She was fortunate to have found a doctoral research department that does well in trying to bring different cultural backgrounds onto campus.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). He then goes on to recite statistics about hundreds of program closures in the humanities right across the United States over the past decade.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

For example, if AI tools are used without human oversight to aid in recruitment or admissions, they may reproduce biases that disadvantage certain student groups, though the understanding of algorithmic discrimination is fragmented and requires further dedicated research.

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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. The hands-on agenda encouraged active experimentation with tools like ChatGPT to imagine curricular integration in disciplines from sciences to humanities.

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University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Without proper mediation, those shortcuts can resurface years later at the highest echelons of academia. “It’s really hard to know what happened in a lot of these cases,” says Julia Strand, professor and chair of Carleton College’s psychology department. Part of that is due to the barrage of scandals.”

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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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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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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Will Asimov’s rules of robotics apply with regard to their potential sentience?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. They were hiring three. Dr. Robin L.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Will Asimov’s rules of robotics apply with regard to their potential sentience?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

“She is diligent, self-disciplined, and self-motivated,” said Dr. Nishika Edwards, educational research program coordinator at the University of South Carolina’s School of Medicine, Greenville, in the department of biomedical sciences. We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.”

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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

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

“She is diligent, self-disciplined, and self-motivated,” said Dr. Nishika Edwards, educational research program coordinator at the University of South Carolina’s School of Medicine, Greenville, in the department of biomedical sciences. We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.”

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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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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Students will use it: Get over it As a member of his school’s professional sales department, Lawrence believes it’s his responsibility to expose his students to any tool that maximizes student success. “Human writers draw from our experience, judgment, and intuition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

These outstanding scholars represent the future of academia and serve as an inspiration to students and faculty members. Diverse editors select honorees from a pool of candidates recommended by various scholars, department chairs, university public information officers, and others.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I Those are places where we find hope, where we find a safe haven to sustain our work and to navigate academia.” She describes him as a “genuinely amazing human being” who “cares about everyone.”

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In the report, ‘Rights Protection: How the UK should respond to the PRC’s overseas influence’ , Andrew Chubb calls on policymakers to recognise the difference between issues of national security, human rights and academic freedom.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

He also acknowledged that his impatience for change, developed during his years in industry, had to be balanced with the collaborative culture of academia. From Georgia Tech, I actually went into industry and worked for about 10 years before I realized that there’s a better career in academia. Initially, when I first got my PhD.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

Curricula Wooster offers over 50 academic programs in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and arts. Distinguished Alumni Network Wooster graduates excel in various fields, including academia, business, public service, and the arts. Notably, more than 85% of students receive financial aid, with an average award of $50,000.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors. As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I Those are places where we find hope, where we find a safe haven to sustain our work and to navigate academia.” She describes him as a “genuinely amazing human being” who “cares about everyone.”

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

When you ask the Department for Business and Trade about exports, higher education is clearly one sector where the British offer has the attention of the world. The Prime Minister will personally Chair new ‘mission boards’ to aid cross-department collaboration. And so we joined forces. Millions of us share this experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. RPI’s athletic department largely competes in Division III, but it had a men’s ice hockey team that competed Division I. The Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” That question has been asked more frequently, and more frantically, since the March release of the fourth evolution of ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence that has demonstrated an uncanny talent for imitating human language and thought. The newest model has already aced the Arizona bar exam and passed a Wharton M.B.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” “More and more we are trying to express the value of the humanities to communities,” he said. The most valued coin of the realm remains not just the book—especially for early and midcareer scholars—but a particular kind of book known only in academia and scholarly publishing as a ‘monograph.’”

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. My favorite term is 'a thousand flowers blooming,' because what you can do in academia which works out really well is that you can literally start a lot of things going.

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