Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Martin APA Task Force Report on Promotion, Tenure and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology details the many obstacles that psychological science faculty from underrepresented groups face, including being tasked with additional responsibilities, hostile work environments, and biased evaluations. population – according to 2020 U.S.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 31, 2025

While this premise seems far-fetched, the shows underlying critique of institutional control, bureaucratic systems, and dehumanizing workplace environments mirrors certain aspects of U.S. Universities rely on complex bureaucratic systems to manage operations, from student admissions to faculty performance assessments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Those opportunities led Howard-Baptiste to Miami University in Ohio where she earned degrees in exercise science, health promotion, and a Ph.D. She worked her way through the ranks as a professor, eventually landing at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and then an internship opportunity in the Office of the Provost came her way.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

These skills are vital for creating environments where students feel understood and valued. By offering clear communication, accessible resources, and proactive outreach, institutions create an environment where students feel valued and supported. ” Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ” San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

As a soon-to-be septuagenarian, current university faculty member and educational researcher, the guiding principle learn throughout life resonates with me. Both then, as K-12 educator and grandmother of six, and now in my university work, my life is iteratively enriched through intergenerational learning.

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ACRLog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Now, in my first proper fall semester as a liaison librarian at a mid-sized R1 University, I find the same statement— I thrive at the moment right before I’m totally overwhelmed, running through my mind, but with less self-assuredness. At the same time, our environment is slowing down.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

By focusing on the present and what students write, say, and want from their writing, I holistically support their growth as writers and their well-being within an academic environment. While mindfulness is often associated with yoga or meditation, it’s a practice that can be done at any time and in any environment.

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HEPI

JUNE 13, 2024

UK universities have been a consistent target of choice by cyber-attackers in recent years. According to the same research from CrowdStrike, along with technology and telecommunications, academia is one of the most targeted sectors for Linux-based interactive intrusion activity.

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SRHE

JANUARY 22, 2025

Shining a light on invisible labour Despite the increase in womens participation in the workforce and in academia, there is still a significant gender pay gap and to compound the issue, this gap widened in 2021 and 2022 in 20/33 OECD countries. Addressing emotional labour is vital for a supportive and equitable work environment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

By the time I transferred to the State University, I realized I was a decent student and no longer anxious about my financial aid being denied for academic standing. The angry Black woman, welfare queen, and jezebel tropes are ever present in the halls of academia. I later earned my General Education Diploma (G.E.D.)

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

To emphasize, research indicates that curriculum designers and university stakeholders need to provide best-practice examples of how to utilize AI tools to effectively and positively promote the use of AI for students advantage (Deroncle-Acosta et al. AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al. Huang et al.

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The PIE News

MARCH 6, 2023

Top universities and colleges in Ireland are using the two-year post-study working opportunity for international students as a major selling point to attracting African students, in a recruitment campaign targeting Anglophone countries on the continent. The post Ireland universities in African drive appeared first on The PIE News.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

Would you emphasize a supportive learning environment, cognitive and affective learning, pedagogical design, essential content, creating assessments, providing feedback, integrating technology, or something different? Michael Kiener is a professor at Maryville University of St. Louis in their Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To earn the Seal of Excelencia a college or university must demonstrate an intentional, institutional focus on advancing Latino student success by aligning data and practice. Institutional leadership must show a commitment to transformation and creating an environment in which Latino students thrive. and graduate 19%.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Should top university leadership roles be open to non-PhDs? " The (mostly) accepted consensus within academia is that a terminal degree is almost always table stakes for most academic leadership roles. We have many examples of university leaders who came from traditional disciplinary backgrounds.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Dr Blessing Marandure, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Fair Outcomes Champion on the Decolonising DMU Project at De Montfort University. Consequently, staff have low expectations of them.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. There are always interesting ‘moments’ in the relationship between incoming governments and universities. Universities however retained their autonomy. This led to two major developments.

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ACRLog

MARCH 21, 2025

Musings on Teaching a Difficult Topic Stepping into the classroom of an academic integrity session has a distinctively different energy than a regular university classroom. A few months ago I volunteered to help teach the academic integrity sessions at my university. I have yet to have a class where no one stays behind to talk.

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HEPI

JUNE 25, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Stuart Mitchell, Centre Manager, and Hannes Read , Policy and Data Analyst, both at the City-Region Economic Development Institute at the University of Birmingham. A life outside of academia PhDs are for life, not just for academia. of white people. Of these, 46% go into a non-research role.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Racial and gender inequities still plague the field of educational measurement, from professional rank to salary, across academia, industry, and leadership roles. Rodriguez said he hopes to learn more about these written responses, particularly as they relate to leadership positions both in academia and the industry.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 8, 2024

The 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings have been released, and analysis reveals that, for the first time, 50 of the top 200 institutions are led by women. These upward trends are born from an attitude of intentional inclusion and the cultivation of a campus environment where all students can thrive.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

In addition, colleges and universities are increasingly exploring how AI can streamline administrative tasks and support faculty efforts to create more accessible course materials. AI tools, such as those that assist in automating tasks or performing data analytics, also enable staff to focus on more personalized engagement with students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

The event includes sessions led by experts in academia, on matters such as publishing strategies, pedagogy, mentoring, service commitments, work-life balance, tenure, and contextualizing salient identities in academic environments. "I I arrived at ELEVATE wondering if the tenure track was right for me.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Despite an increasingly repressive environment in Chinese universities, there continues to be a “huge gap” in scholarly research on queerness in Chinese academia, according to Cui Le, a sociologist at the University of Auckland who has made it his mission to tell the world about the country’s largely invisible gay scholars.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 30, 2024

Yale University has appointed Maurie McInnis, PhD, as its 24th president, making her the first permanent female president in the institution’s history. McInnis, who currently leads Stony Brook University as president, was the unanimous choice of the Yale Board of Trustees.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

For instance, institutional autonomy and academic freedom are widely acknowledged as essential for the optimization of university operations in most African nations. Universities offer the necessary space for the exercise of academic freedom, and thus, institutional autonomy is necessary for its preservation.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Press coverage of recent cryptocurrency disruptions and the significant staff reductions at Twitter and Meta is giving pause for thought amongst investors and futurists, as well as university leaders considering the future of the Metaverse. Whether this gaming trend will fruitfully spill over into academia, I am doubtful.

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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. Although the government is looking to move in a different direction, colleges and universities must prioritize diversity and inclusion.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 7, 2024

Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will no longer require diversity and inclusion statements as part of its hiring process. This shift comes amidst intense scrutiny of DEI efforts at Harvard and other major universities. In an April op-ed in The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Law School professor Randall L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“If we want to disrupt systemic oppression, we need a model that prioritizes care, empathy, love, authenticity, healing, hope, collectivity, solidarity, and community,” said Gaston Gayles, president of ASHE and distinguished graduate professor and senior advisor for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at North Carolina State University.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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. She blogs here.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Adam Lindgreen, Professor of Marketing at the Copenhagen Business School and Extraordinary Professor with the Gordon Institute of Business Science at the University of Pretoria, C. We have also held different managerial positions within academia. This scholarly prestige also draws Ph.D.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Barrington Price, Dominican University’s vice president of student success and engagement, knows this well—because he was a struggling first-generation college student himself. All the academia fades away in that moment to one prevailing thought: this moment is the beginning. Around 20 percent enter graduate school.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the short few weeks that professor Alex Lawrence has taught his sales technology course this semester at Weber State University, he finds the level of discussion his students are already having “remarkable.” These educators think you’re looking at it wrong appeared first on University Business.

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