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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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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. I cannot imagine my job without our Data and Digital Scholarship librarians. Culture of Personality So, whats with this dissidence? The list goes on.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

. · Salient, consistent standards: Universities should provide departments with a presentation template where each standard in the promotion and tenure document is projected onto the screen as it is discussed. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. Traditional standards (e.g.,

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New Book Focuses on Anti-Asian Racism, Stereotypes, and Catholic Teachings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cheah proceeded to make Asian American studies part of his career, primarily focusing his scholarship on race and religion. 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. I was fascinated by that."

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. Dr. Teik Lim “My family did not have much money, but with the help of a generous undergraduate scholarship from Michigan Tech, I was able to support myself through college and become the first member of my family to earn a college degree,” said Lim.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Hall was encouraged to lean into who she is, to do, as she put it, the scholarship that feeds her soul.

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Discounted tuition by major devalues the humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

The main reasons Tavárez cites for discounting humanities tuition are lower market value of the humanities, fewer job prospects for humanists, and lower research expenditure for humanities scholarship. First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists.