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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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Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

SRHE

by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). They are also often absent from staff directories, university websites and policy documents.

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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. Fraud investigations are on the rise in higher education institutions. Armed with insider information, relators file fraud cases on the government’s behalf, leading to a recent uptick in government investigations of higher education institutions.

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Addressing Failures of Implementation

Inside Higher Ed

As institutions struggle to adapt in the wake of the Covid pandemic and advocate for the value of higher education, we, as an association, are determined to spotlight our members’ leadership in this space to make the changes on their campuses that will best serve learners. They help document learning.

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Representation Matters: Reflections on Academia’s ‘Leaky Pipeline’

HEPI

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. The good news, however, is that ethnic diversity has been gradually increasing in UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Feeling out of place in academia can really knock someone’s confidence and sense of aspiration.

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Strategies for Speaking Out

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

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