Academe Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

BY MICHAEL SCHWALBE Years ago, I was speaking with a colleague about one of the paradoxes of university life: tenured faculty enjoy more job security than almost any other occupational group in US society, yet they are often afraid to fight for their interests as a group. My colleague accounted for this lack of collective…

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The discussion centers around the PhD Project's remarkable 30-year journey in diversifying business school faculty, creating systemic change in higher education through faculty representation, and building a sustainable pipeline of diverse academic talent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Social media, namely Twitter, can provide scholars a platform on which they can engage with various individuals within and outside of academia, potentially those who otherwise would not have access to the scholars’ work, said panelist Dr. Laila McCloud, an assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling at Grand Valley State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2023

‘Going Infinite’ and the Children of Academia joshua.m.kim@d… Wed, 10/25/2023 - 03:00 AM Sam Bankman-Fried and his faculty parents. Byline(s) Joshua Kim

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

” Faculty members—as well as staffers—are on the front lines of higher education’s battle to arrest declining student mental health, ravaged by nearly three years of the COVID-19 pandemic combined with such stressors as climate disasters, racial unrest, political incivility and culture wars.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Faculty from the University of Kentucky (UK), Vanderbilt University, and University of North Carolina Greensboro have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support underrepresented minority faculty at predominantly white institutions (PWIs).

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Some faculty members and institutional technology specialists are concerned about the speed of Turnitin’s rollout, as well as aspects of AI-detector technology more broadly. Chief among them were the inability of faculty and institutions to opt out of the service and the speed at which Originality would be introduced. ​He

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Educators from underrepresented backgrounds and diverse disciplines at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) continue to build a campus-wide support system and sense of community through Faculty Link, an opt-in program now entering its third year. Sharon Inkelas. “I Serena Chen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

A new study by Course Hero, an online learning platform for educators, suggests that a rise in job satisfaction among faculty has improved since the start of the pandemic. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW) women make up the majority of non tenure-track faculty across institutions in higher education.

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The Academic Designer

MAY 2, 2024

Martine Cadet interviews Jennifer van Alstyne on the significance of faculty online presence and personal academic websites. They discuss how these websites enhance communication, facilitate connections, and allow professors to share their work effectively in a digital age.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Malaklou hosts events like "Evening with an Activist" at the bell hooks center, where students can learn tangible ways to make a difference outside of academia. She said this lesson is deliberate and acknowledges academia and graduate school can be “violent, especially for scholars of color, women, and queer folks of color.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The results reflected problems that Black academics have always known to plague academia: institutional racism and insufficient support for Black ECAs that create barriers to job security and career advancement for Black academics. There’s kind of Black academics in particular exiting academia at various stages. think tank.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) will host its 8th annual early-career faculty professional development program, ELEVATE (Enriching Learning, Enhancing Visibility & Training Educators), this week. I arrived at ELEVATE wondering if the tenure track was right for me.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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The Academic Designer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This anthology features faculty and writers from the Mile-High MFA Program at Regis University. Andrea Rexilius discusses her edited anthology, We Can See Into Another Place, highlighting its multi-genre approach to social justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2024

SREB officials point out that faculty of color– especially in leadership positions – are still underrepresented in comparison to the racial and ethnic diversity of the students they teach. For instance, nationwide, only about 6% of faculty are Black, just over 5% are Hispanic or Latino and only about 1% are Native American.

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ChatGPT in academia: Is the future artificial? Thinking about the pros of ChatGPT in academia Research Assistance: ChatGPT may help academics locate relevant research papers, summarize publications, or provide quick information on a variety of topics, possibly saving them time and energy in the process of information retrieval.

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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. In this blog, my aim is to bring together a few exemplars of experiences by people of colour within academia. Emotional labour has several meanings, and inevitably some are context dependent.

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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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Academe Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

By HANK KALET There has been a strike wave across academia that is altering the landscape for those of us who teach and work in higher education — and Rutgers is poised to join the party. Strikes at The New School, the University of California system, the University of Illinois Chicago, and threats by faculty,…

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

How could a chat bot that is causing panic in academia leave me with a palpable sense of focus and calm as a professor? I have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and ChatGPT has become my go-to assistive technology for writing and for teaching. Assistive technologies (AT) specifically for folks with ADHD are not new.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

" The (mostly) accepted consensus within academia is that a terminal degree is almost always table stakes for most academic leadership roles. Only a fellow PhD holder will "get" the existential value of institutional shared governance, faculty autonomy, and academic freedom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

It's been something that has sustained me in academia, the service work that I do,” said Dr. Melva Treviño Peña, an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island. “To Scholarly research should be made accessible and legible for people not in academia, the scholars agreed. "My

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But if the many doomsday projections actually come to fruition, losing Twitter will be a sad day for academia. In a frequently alienating world of academia, that is huge. In addition to aiding in research discovery, Academic Twitter has become a go-to resource for locating job postings, both in academia and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As Black male scholars deeply invested in education reform, we believe it is essential to reshape the narrative surrounding Black males, especially in academia. Despite their aspirations and drive to excel, Black males in academia frequently navigate hostile environments that question their qualifications and intellect (Smith et al.,

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

Marc joins us to discuss the potential of AI in digital learning and to highlight the amazing work happening at his institution to prepare faculty and students for a future that includes working with AI. The goal of this training was to help prepare faculty for the fall semester.

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

” Georgia Tech’s Vertically Integrated Projects program invites undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as faculty across academia and research, to collaborate on multi-year complex problems. . “It works for university researchers—not necessarily for its students and society.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Also, graduates of such schools are not likely to receive offers for positions in academia. “If If you get your PhD at a for-profit, it’s very hard to transition into academia,” said Velez. “A Due to the debt, they take longer to compete their degrees. A lot of times you work for the government or a non-profit.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

After Business Insider suggested Neri Oxman—a prominent MIT grad and wife of billionaire philanthropist William Ackman—had plagiarized in her dissertation, Ackman promised to leverage AI capabilities to review the published work of all of MIT’s faculty, its president and the work of the faculties at other Ivy Leagues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Moseley has demonstrated through his tenure, particularly in this situation with the lack of support alleged by Dr. [Candia-Bailey] and her death, impacts the institution's health, and that in itself, calls for a change in order for the mass group of people impacted to heal – students, faculty, and alumni,” said Bonds, in an interview with Diverse.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reports of scholars being retired early or dismissed indicate that the Iranian government has ordered a cleansing of academia in the wake of protests that have gripped the country since September. Demonstrations were triggered by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, who was accused of wearing her hijab “improperly.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 14, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Much of the conversation swirling around academia this summer is about leaving academia. ” What might be the conditions that encourage and enable us to remain in academia for decades and decades? The organizational dysfunctions of academia are evergreen. Call it “the Great Stay.”

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

Through the November 2023 HBCU/MSI Research Summit — a joint effort between Virginia Tech’s Graduate School and the Pamplin College of Business — the university welcomed 25 visiting faculty and staff from participating institutions. Lab, a group composed of interdisciplinary research faculty and graduate students throughout the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the school had 118 full-time faculty and 107 part-time faculty in Fall 2022. The closure leaves 500-600 employees without jobs, forces students to continue their education elsewhere, and tens of properties vacant.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

I suspect they apply whether you are faculty, staff, or student, and perhaps well beyond the academy as well. 6) If you think you may want — ever — to go out on your own, outside academia, then start an LLC immediately. It also made me admire the incredible scholar activists who lit the way.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Protesters say the system is pushing scholars out of academia by not meeting workers’ needs. The walkout has reached a pivotal moment during finals, impacting students and faculty in the UC System across 10 campuses. The Council of Faculty Associations estimates that faculty will withhold at least 34,000 grades across the system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference underscored the mission of postsecondary institutions and academics to work against dehumanizing atmospheres and support the best policies and practices that improve student belonging, community connection, and create thriving faculty. “We While TCUs are not a monolith, she found similarities in methodology.

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