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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.
HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In this blog, my aim is to bring together a few exemplars of experiences by people of colour within academia. Emotional labour has several meanings, and inevitably some are context dependent.
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.”
No corner is free from this specter—not even the hallowed halls of academia. academia and the Chinese Communist Party are glaring national security risks.” Once meaningful policies are established and documented, mandatory, yearly training on the policies and the real cost of violations must follow.
Try to avoid casual conversations with them, and if you have them document what was said and by whom. 6) If you think you may want — ever — to go out on your own, outside academia, then start an LLC immediately. I don’t care how much you think they are or want them to be. They are not.
This time of year, at my university, and perhaps at yours as well, we are preparing to submit documentation for our annual performance reviews. As I get my activity reports ready for my first cycle in this process, I cant shake an idea surrounding the nature of academic evaluation. Culture of Personality So, whats with this dissidence?
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HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. The progressive drop in ethnic diversity as you move up the seniority ladder is a well-documented and persistent problem in academia. Who did you say sent you?’ … I remember being asked this question very clearly.
“It went downhill after the [Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act] documents were submitted due to my severe depression and anxiety. This is all documented and emails sent.” She also noted in the email about receiving a poor professional evaluation from Moseley.
They are also often absent from staff directories, university websites and policy documents. Many start their shift once academic and professional staff have left the premises. When ancillary staff have a dedicated workspace, it is often hidden from view.
They help document learning. Most institutions accept some third-party serviced electronic documents, but the majority consume that digital delivery in an analog fashion. This is what AACRAO members do. They help create the bridges that connect one pathway to another.
A green card system would ameliorate the issues with work visas, such as the cost and uncertainty of visa applications and document authentication, and the power imbalance with an employer which sometimes results in late salary payments and difficulty in switching jobs,” Weeks added.
He has written an important book that highlights the persistency of anti-Asian racism rendered invisible in church’s documents and in much of the politics of U.S. racial discourses," said Kim. "It
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People outside of academia may be better positioned to evaluate the impact of candidate’s scholarship. · Carefully assess why disconnects occur between external and internal evaluators. The criteria should be read aloud, prior to evaluating that dimension.
She feels it’s important to share her stories with women — in and out of academia — and build community with other scholars. I was always very conscious of the small number of Black women in the profession, in academia, but then in the discipline of political science,” she continues.
Particularly interesting is the notable increase in social media interaction among everyone, including undergraduate students, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as documented in a March 2021 Vox article. Community culture, as defined by Plotts (in press, p.
I appreciated the book's critical engagement with archival documents and photographs in the creation of a Black feminist poetics,” says Dr. Saidiya Hartman, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Entering higher ed and academia, she went on to earn a B.A. in English from Morgan State, then a Ph.D.
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We write today centering the needs and experiences of fat students who sometimes struggle to find fit and space within academia. Through our work we found that when given the chance to document their experiences fat students overwhelmingly focus on the ways they do not fit in furniture, chairs, and generally within classroom spaces.
” It has been well documented that many who intersect with academia have not found it to be particularly fun but instead have found it arbitrary, hostile and punishing. Before then there was a wide space between ‘I agree with you’ and ‘I demand that the administration punish you for what you just said.’
The assignment created a bridge between academia and business (Rohm, 2019), and emphasized active learning by requiring students to develop a style guide (“Sprout Social”, 2024) and use GenAi tools such as ChatGPT, an AI tool owned by Open AI, to generate social media content for a real business.
The long job application process is well known and documented, and yet we’re still using that same system. Additionally, I have a lot of thoughts about reimbursement culture in academia; grateful as I am for moving cost reimbursement, that initial financial burden almost made it impossible to actually make the move for this job.
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In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. Growing up in Malaysia, Lim wanted to skip college, join the military and pursue the dream of becoming a pilot. Unfortunately, he could not meet the 20-20 eyesight requirement.
How do we encourage folks to lay the groundwork, document it along the way, and share that knowledge with more than just one person? I think this includes documentation of some kind and talking openly about the work (to all levels of the organization). However, what are ways to prevent messes, even before someone considers leaving?
As I’m sure anyone in academia is aware, ChatGPT and its AI counterparts are taking us by storm. Have you been staring at a blank document for hours, unsure where to start? Note: The ChatGPT generated content is in a linked Google Doc and labeled as such! Try prompting ChatGPT to write it. Get ChatGPT to generate something.
Particularly interesting is the notable increase in social media interaction among everyone, including undergraduate students, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as documented in a March 2021 Vox article. Community culture, as defined by Plotts (in press, p.
Hall was so enamored of her cluster that she produced a short film about it, documenting how the relationships that she and the other professors had formed helped them navigate being people of color in academia. Without these gatherings, “I don’t know if I would have survived the pandemic,” she says.
The assignment created a bridge between academia and business (Rohm, 2019), and emphasized active learning by requiring students to develop a style guide (“Sprout Social”, 2024) and use GenAi tools such as ChatGPT, an AI tool owned by Open AI, to generate social media content for a real business.
Whether this gaming trend will fruitfully spill over into academia, I am doubtful. The executive summary for both of these documents serves to enhance the digital literacy of the entire learning community. What should universities do? Things move that fast.
Cropley’s (2014, 634) analysis of how teachers view creativity, he found that educators’ “evocation of ‘more creativity’ has been limited to rhetorical flourishes in policy documents and/or relegated to the borderlands of the visual and performing arts.”
In the former, an instructor may simply be unaware that students can now type a writing prompt into a website and copy the answer it generates into a document to submit. These attitudes are lumped together because both favor avoiding the core issue.
We often don’t allow ourselves these moments of connection because connection requires vulnerability and vulnerability goes against everything we’ve been taught about expertise, authority, and credibility in academia. Consider putting them in a shared document to revise/refer back to throughout the course.
Cropley’s (2014, 634) analysis of how teachers view creativity, he found that educators’ “evocation of ‘more creativity’ has been limited to rhetorical flourishes in policy documents and/or relegated to the borderlands of the visual and performing arts.”
Whilst the affectual impact of feedback on students has been well documented in the literature ( eg McFarlane and Wakeman, 2011 ), there is little in the academic literature on the affectual impact of the feedback process on markers ( Henderson-Brooks, 2021 ). Twitter handle:@samanthawilko
Image: When Julianna Barnes set her sights on a career in academia, she envisioned eventually becoming a vice president of an institution and assumed it would be her pinnacle role in the profession.
In the former, an instructor may simply be unaware that students can now type a writing prompt into a website and copy the answer it generates into a document to submit. These attitudes are lumped together because both favor avoiding the core issue.
We often don’t allow ourselves these moments of connection because connection requires vulnerability and vulnerability goes against everything we’ve been taught about expertise, authority, and credibility in academia. Consider putting them in a shared document to revise/refer back to throughout the course.
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