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The Silent Crisis: Bullying Among Nurse Educators in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

Bullying in nursing is a well-documented issue, but less attention has been given to the experiences of nurse educators who face hostility within academic institutions. These hostile work environments have profound consequences, leading many talented educators to leave academia entirely or return to clinical practice.

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Building an Academic Space for Black Women Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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The Silent Crisis: Bullying Among Nurse Educators in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

Bullying in nursing is a well-documented issue, but less attention has been given to the experiences of nurse educators who face hostility within academic institutions. These hostile work environments have profound consequences, leading many talented educators to leave academia entirely or return to clinical practice.

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Celebrating our interconnectedness in the season of annual reviews

ACRLog

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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Emotional labour in the ivory tower: highlighting the experiences of academics of colour

HEPI

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.

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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. 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.

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What the experience of neurodivergent PhD students teaches us, and why it makes me angry

SRHE

The myth of meritocracy Academia clings to the fiction that the current system rewards pure intellectual merit. Academia tends to attract deep thinkers with intense focus on specific topics traits often associated with autism (‘special interests’ anyone?). So why don’t these great ideas become reality?