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Worthy of More: Systemic Failures Women of Color Face in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At first, it felt affirmingproof that I belonged in academia. The Burden of Excellence In academia, excellence isnt just expected of women of colorits demanded. Beyond these demands, academia sets another trap: our worth is measured by metrics that offer little tangible reward. But over time, the shine dulled.

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Open Access: It’s Not Just a Nice Thing to Do

ACRLog

It takes down the ivory towers of academia, bringing publicly funded research back to the public. motto in academia. Fact: Publishing open access increases the visibility and dissemination of your work, which leads to greater public engagement, accessibility, more downloads and citations.

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How to develop a high impact research paper: the case of feedback literacy

LSE Higher Education Blog

Rejections are ubiquitous in academia, and represent an opportunity to reflect, revise, and move forward The article was rejected by the first target journal with the negative reviewer finding it reliant on creative synthesis by the authors as opposed to using more clearly defined processes of systematic review methodology.

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Tap into the Power of Alumni to Build Your Enrollment Pipeline

Liaison International

Bridging Academic and Professional Worlds Similarly, alumni bridge the gap between academia and the professional world. Alumni, especially recent graduates, can speak to the practical applications of the education they received and offer advice on navigating the transition from academia to the workforce.

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Untapped the Power of Alumni to Build Your Enrollment Pipeline

Liaison International

Bridging Academic and Professional Worlds Similarly, alumni bridge the gap between academia and the professional world. Alumni, especially recent graduates, can speak to the practical applications of the education they received and offer advice on navigating the transition from academia to the workforce.

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Artificial Intelligence, Publishers and the Translation of Research – A reflection on making research accessible outside of academia

HEPI

Conceptually, it is not a big jump from there to, for example, a surgical patient visiting a publisher’s website, downloading a research article and having it ‘translated’ on the fly to a version that a non-specialist can easily understand. Technologically, it is not a big jump either.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. My favorite term is 'a thousand flowers blooming,' because what you can do in academia which works out really well is that you can literally start a lot of things going.