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Let’s look outside academia for university leaders

LSE Higher Education Blog

The recruitment of university leaders, or more specifically vice-chancellors and their equivalent, is an opaque process. By comparison to other international higher education sectors, especially the US , and despite media headlines , UK vice-chancellors are poorly paid. Reasons are manifold. One is remunerative.

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Despite Increased Visibility, Asian Americans Continue to Face Barriers in Academia

Insight Into Diversity

But I would say those are the exceptions, not the rules,” says Nicholas Hartlep, PhD, the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education at Berea College, whose research focuses on race and equity — particularly concerning the experiences of Asian Americans — in academia.

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Navigating chronic illness in academia: An early career perspective

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Rebecca Williams is a Lecturer in Environmental Law at Edinburgh Napier University. Previously she was a Teaching Fellow and the Interim Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance at the University of Strathclyde. By Rebecca Williams. in 2020/21. of undergraduates have a known disability.

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Beyond Academia: Recognizing and Supporting Non-Academic Struggles of Ph.D. Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As the pursuit of higher education becomes increasingly competitive and demanding, the focus on academic achievements often overshadows the personal battles that many Ph.D. Kiarra Boenitz Additionally, scholarly discourse on the intersection of graduate education and mental health, exemplified by J. students face behind the scenes.

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Buried Alive: The (Un) told Stories of Black Women in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These incidents highlight the fact that systemic racism and police brutality pervade various corners of our society, including higher education where Black women may feel particularly vulnerable. Finally, we join Black women within academia in their call for structural change, no longer are we asking for reformation; we want a revolution.

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Silenced Voices: Confronting Linguistic Discrimination and Cultural Erasure in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One day, while walking to a work meeting at a university in a supposedly progressive Northeast state, I encountered a disheartening sight. The shock of this encounter was amplified by the fact that it occurred at a predominantly white university. During an address at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Feb. 8, 2018, Ms.

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Report: Faculty of Color in Psychology Face Structural Hurdles in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And that gap in underrepresented people and majoritized people increases from assistant, to associate, to full professor, with some assistant, associate, and full professors of color deciding to withdraw from the university because of the lack of attention to diversity issues and the high tax on their own careers and personal lives."

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