Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

As we delve into these disparities, it becomes clear that targeted interventions and policy changes are essential to bridge this gap and foster a more inclusive educational environment. This is not just a matter of equity but a necessity for the advancement and enrichment of our society as a whole.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

The current policies around training grants create a disincentive for these important federal funding opportunities and an unequal work environment that the NPA wishes to see changed. One of the underlying policies preventing benefit equity is the NIH Grants Policy sec.11.3.8 Potential Paths Toward Equity. Not a New Problem.

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HEPI

JULY 18, 2024

In today’s dynamic digital environment, the changes occurring in marketing and public relations (PR) are particularly significant and complex relative to other sectors. Traditional marketing and PR curricula may not adequately prepare students for the fast-paced digital environment, leaving them at a disadvantage in the job market.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

However, the report reveals a landscape marked by cautious optimism, with stakeholders wary of the ethical and operational risks AI brings, particularly around academic integrity, data privacy, and equity.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The incorporation of corporate governance into academia introduces a set of values and priorities that can restrict the traditional autonomy and academic freedom that define a self-governing profession. Zulu, C (2016) Gender equity and equality in higher education leadership: Whats social justice and substantive equality got to do with it?

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. In essence, social media offers a portable and customizable sense of community across various spaces, enriching the learning experience.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

Elevating Engagement Engagement is an important factor driving retention in online classrooms; furthermore, dynamic environments capture the attention of students, ensuring greater dedication to learning. Social Presence in Technology-Rich Learning Environments: How Real We Are Feeling Connected and How Does It Matter for Learning?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Because several minoritized professors are being hired at once, they are less likely to be tokenized and burdened with extra diversity, equity, and inclusion work. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Each phase of my journey provided unique insights into the challenges and opportunities within academia. The shift was not merely about numbers but about creating environments where all students could thrive. Higher education needs our campuses to be diverse to thrive intellectually, socially, and financially.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Committee members often arrive unprepared. The tenure process is a social and political process.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the work of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in higher education has expanded, several institutions have recognized the need to create a clearer and more comprehensive pathway for individuals interested in serving as DEI advocates and leaders.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In addition to the community-building aspect, the program also helps participants develop concrete skills, such as conducting research, mentoring students, applying for grants, and advancing diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and belonging goals. .

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. In essence, social media offers a portable and customizable sense of community across various spaces, enriching the learning experience.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

Actively seeking feedback from students during the semester fosters a responsive learning environment that opens opportunities for students to build their self-efficacy through seeing their input being valued and implemented.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. The program provides culturally responsive teacher preparation, field experiences, and high-quality science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education in urban environments. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist.” .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

She credits the faculty for creating an environment where students feel safe discussing their concerns while continuing their education with sustained quality. She also encourages nurses of color she meets at various events and offers to mentor individuals who are considering entering academia.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Investigative journalism continues to expose these problems, helping to drive conversations about fairness and equity in education. By following the muckraker tradition of exposing corruption and exploitation, HEI investigates how the pursuit of profit, power, and prestige within academia intersects with larger global crises.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

So, we're going to create this environment that includes aspects of your culture. He directs the Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity at Rice University, where he has taught, among other subjects, engineering and computational applied mathematics and operations research. “We And it wasn’t that we were fighting society or academia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

There’s Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ announcing a new legislative proposal that would prevent public institutions of higher education from using any funding, whether public or private, to support diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

For institutions, affordability concerns can lead to declining enrollment, particularly among first-generation and underserved students, further exacerbating equity gaps in education. Higher education operates within a complex regulatory environment influenced by local, state, and federal policies.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

As music education continues to embrace DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) principles, those at every level in the field are pushing for greater representation and exposure of music beyond the boundaries of the classical, Caucasian-centered curricula typical of academia. Washington University (WashU) in St.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

Actively seeking feedback from students during the semester fosters a responsive learning environment that opens opportunities for students to build their self-efficacy through seeing their input being valued and implemented.

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Continuous Learning Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Faculty can be better aware of the sensory environment of their classroom. In addition to her work with faculty to boost awareness of disability, especially hidden disability, in academia, she is working with a group of disabled-in-higher-ed peers on an edited collection of narrative essays about the intersection of disability and education.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ted Mason, PhD In the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to ban race-conscious admissions in higher education, experts in the field of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) are at a crossroads. Mason serves as associate provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Kenyon College in Ohio.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Diversity statements, considered a staple of inclusive hiring practices in higher education over the past several years, are increasingly under scrutiny as states implement anti-DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) legislation and colleges and universities reevaluate their impact. appeared first on Insight Into Diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

At that time, my white classmates were in the majority, however, she created an environment that was inclusive while instilling a sense of Black pride that resonates with me until this day. The learning environment, curriculum, materials, and resources align with the learning styles of minoritized students. (4) Dr. Erik M.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2017

Traditionally, universities have looked for candidates who were steeped in the world of academia. These candidates resumes boast professional experience beyond the walls of academia and in higher education. Other universities have broken the traditional mold of a university president by hiring candidates who are described as hybrids.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The objective of the Health Equity and Advocacy thread is to examine the practices of individual health care providers, institutions, and organizations to achieve health equity. Students identify approaches that best identify and mitigate individual and system-level biases.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

More women are attending university than ever before and a quarter of the world’s top universities have appointed a female president, but research shows that female academics are being pushed out of academia and are evaluated lower than male lecturers, which could stifle their careers.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

APRIL 2, 2025

This involves fostering a continuous learning environment that encourages ongoing evaluation and improvement of AI systems. We need a concept of a society in order to protect it, and it is being actively undermined by AI hype and by the techno-fascist forces who benefit from that AI hype, resulting in dwindling human agency.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Beyond their influence in academia and politics, elite universities increasingly exert power over the very land on which they sit. These schools are not just centers of academic pursuitthey are political players in their own right, using their financial clout to shape the policies that govern education, tax law, and more.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 8, 2023

. – Russ Poulin, WCET Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color by Lorgia García Peña Academia is often called out for its many issues around race. She furthermore points towards specific things that could be changed to create better equity and inclusion in academia.

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SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

Although investment in the area is growing, a recent systematic review highlighted the stressful academic environment and higher levels of burnout within the industry compared to other jobs ( Urbina-Garcia, 2020 ). Academia has changed substantially even within the 23 years I have been working.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Karen Gravett (Surrey), in her talk (“Assemblages of belonging in the digital university”) continued along a relational plane of inquiry, approaching ideas of materiality and human connection in digital educational environments through her research examining student engagement, belonging, and mattering in higher education.

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idfive agency

APRIL 8, 2022

But if there’s one good thing that’s come out of all the trouble, it’s been a renaissance in public awareness of problems around social justice, equity, and inclusion. It’s about promoting equity on campus. Between the pandemic, political turmoil, and social unrest, it’s been a rough few years. We couldn’t agree more.

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SRHE

JUNE 9, 2023

We were concerned that the mysteries of the pre-application stage may have Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) implications, making it easier for some to navigate toward doctoral study than others. Her research interests broadly concern equity in higher education, feminisms in academia and inclusive pedagogies.

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