Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Jacinta Saffold In a world where academia often overlooks the nuanced narratives of Black women, the Black Womens Studies Association (BWSA) is spearheading a movement that seeks to center the lived experiences of Black women across disciplines, identities, and generations. That commitment to community-building is central to their ethos.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This comes alongside cultural and social isolation and tokenism that these professors may feel as a result of being the only one of their racial-ethnic background in their department, the report stated. According to the report, faculty of color can be subject to several “taxes” in academia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Although Howard-Baptiste initially planned to pursue a career in the sports and fitness industry, inspired by her years as a high school volleyball player and intramural athlete in college, she eventually decided to go into academia. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

My research specialism lies in feedback for student learning in higher education, a modest niche within a Cinderella sub-field: higher education pedagogic research. Rejections are ubiquitous in academia, and represent an opportunity to reflect, revise, and move forward.

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MARCH 16, 2025

Because the steady decline of German learners in the UK, of students pursuing German at the university level, the closure of language departments and the ongoing threat of further closures is a cause for concern. Why are we shouting out for German?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

million students. I understand firsthand the challenges students face because I have lived them. These experiences have given me a unique lens through which I approach leadership, prioritizing equity, access, and the holistic well-being of our students. The average service for Black female CEOs is 2.65

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2025

Students gain foundational knowledge in physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, information technology, and materials science, paired with practical internships in Taiwans vibrant semiconductor workforce. Students gain invaluable real-world experience and a competitive edge in the job market.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. There must be deliberate and continuous assessment to identify and implement strategies that improve Latino student achievement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Along lines or race and ethnicity, Black and Latino graduates in the humanities typically earn less than their white counterparts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia.

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Academe Blog

APRIL 18, 2025

BY ALLISON GAINER As faculty, we often find ourselves balancing pedagogy, policy, and student support. For students with disabilities, that support sometimes includes service dogs. Joey Ramp, a neuroscientist and former PhD student, experienced this firsthand. These working animals are not pets or conveniences.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2024

Given suspicions that a student has cheated in a course, one of the most common recommendations is that an instructor meets with the student to discuss those suspicions. Guilty or innocent, no student wants to be accused of cheating. For faculty, the interviewee would be the student. No one wants this meeting.

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University Business

OCTOBER 24, 2024

No corner is free from this specter—not even the hallowed halls of academia. million settlement resolved allegations that Education Management unlawfully recruited students by paying admissions personnel based purely on the number of students they enrolled. Where there is money, there is fraud.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2024

Given suspicions that a student has cheated in a course, one of the most common recommendations is that an instructor meets with the student to discuss those suspicions. Guilty or innocent, no student wants to be accused of cheating. For faculty, the interviewee would be the student. No one wants this meeting.

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SRHE

JANUARY 22, 2025

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. How we uncovered the invisible Our research has two stages.

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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 The work that we're doing is what allows other students and people who come after us to be here." I'm not going to be an academic forever,” said Dr. Renae D.

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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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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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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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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

There are various stories in higher education news about what impact AI will have on students, instructors, and the education field at large. I really enjoyed learning about these initiatives and student reflections on AI in higher education. The goal of this training was to help prepare faculty for the fall semester.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

UAW members say that these adjustments address a worsening housing affordability crisis: according to union survey data, 92 percent of graduate student workers and 61 percent of postdocs are “rent burdened,” meaning that they spend more than 30 percent of their gross income, the federal affordability threshold, on housing.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

According to the 2024 AI Landscape Study released by Educause a nonprofit association whose focus is on advancing the use of technology and data to impact success in higher education colleges are increasingly integrating AI to enhance student experiences, improve administrative efficiency, and influence teaching methodologies.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 30, 2025

colleges and universities have increasingly adopted surveillance technologies, often in ways that blur the lines between student safety, security, and governmental overreach. On-Campus Surveillance Many campuses are equipped with thousands of security cameras, often without students' knowledge of the exact extent of their monitoring.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

It didn’t help that the editor who fired me was only slightly older than most of my students. That being said, what does this mean for teaching students to write well? I posit that what we will be focused on is helping students become good editors. ” After all, I had been so dutiful about my research and my writing.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And though I dont have the stats to back this statement up, I think anyone would be hard-pressed to find an academic department that doesnt lean on words like teamwork, relational, or collaborative in their guiding documents. Serving our students, faculty, and staff is a group effort.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. With respect to service, women and minorities face a ‘Diversity tax,’ wherein they are called to increased service/support for community members (including students) from under-served groups. Moreno at al.

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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. “He

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 7, 2024

Moving forward, they will be asked to detail their plans to “strengthen academic communities” and foster a “learning environment in which students are encouraged to ask questions and share their ideas.” The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard’s largest division, includes 40 academic departments and over 10,000 students.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 2, 2025

The Reality of Institutional Transformation While change has always been part of academia, the current rate of transformation is undermining the viability of institutions that once seemed unassailable. Faculty, staff, and students dont want to be informed after decisions are madethey want a voice before decisions are finalized.

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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

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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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

To ensure music students gain a more inclusive education, universities are beginning to expand their areas of study. Arkansas Center for Black Music Founded earlier this year, the Arkansas Center for Black Music is a collaboration between the UA Department of Music and the African and African American Studies program.

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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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The PIE News

MARCH 6, 2023

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.

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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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