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Let’s look outside academia for university leaders

LSE Higher Education Blog

The recruitment of university leaders, or more specifically vice-chancellors and their equivalent, is an opaque process. But what is currently known is that recruiting to such positions, especially from outside the UK, is hard. Reasons are manifold. One is remunerative. Main image: Lisa Marie Theck on Unsplash

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Worthy of More: Systemic Failures Women of Color Face in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Colleagues praised my energy, students gravitated to my classes, and I was recruited for every diversity committee imaginable. At first, it felt affirmingproof that I belonged in academia. The Burden of Excellence In academia, excellence isnt just expected of women of colorits demanded. But over time, the shine dulled.

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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This increase, while notable, also highlights the persistent challenges that remain in achieving true gender equity at the highest levels of academia. Her meteoric rise is particularly noteworthy given the historical barriers faced by women of color in academia. in the majority white college town in the Mountain region.

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Fraud in academia: How can universities avoid costly litigation?

University Business

No corner is free from this specter—not even the hallowed halls of academia. Though healthcare fraud is the largest type of FCA fraud, this article focuses on non-healthcare fraud in higher education: research and grant fraud, unlawful recruiting, failure to disclose ties to foreign governments, and cybersecurity failure fraud.

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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. We are very intentional in how we recruit, retai Dr. Jose Fierro n and support completion to our diverse student body,” says Dr. Jose Fierro, president. “We

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Invisible labour: visible activism

SRHE

Shining a light on invisible labour Despite the increase in womens participation in the workforce and in academia, there is still a significant gender pay gap and to compound the issue, this gap widened in 2021 and 2022 in 20/33 OECD countries. Importantly, a significant component of wife work is emotional labour.

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Ireland universities in African drive

The PIE News

Top universities and colleges in Ireland are using the two-year post-study working opportunity for international students as a major selling point to attracting African students, in a recruitment campaign targeting Anglophone countries on the continent.