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, a cultural historian, has had a notable career in academia, including significant roles at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She feels it’s important to share her stories with women — in and out of academia — and build community with other scholars. I was always very conscious of the small number of Black women in the profession, in academia, but then in the discipline of political science,” she continues. I thought, ‘Why don’t we know this history?’”

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years. Blank Center for Campus History and a professorship in her honor. UWM recently named the Rebecca M.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

The three presidents to step down demonstrate a variety of reasons for making a change: to reengage in academia, pursue other professional opportunities or make way for new leadership during trying times. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Earlier in 2022, the union at Barnard College was able to win compensation for out-of-class work for adjuncts and full-time faculty there. Rutgers AAUP-AFT – it represents more than 5,000 full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and counselors – went on strike from April 10 to April 14, 2023, Givan said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Gonzales said Hall's work has been critical to helping people understand how a person's undocumented status is connected to the country's larger racial history and context. "Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. In many units, the scholarship alone or largely determines whether the faculty member receives a favorable evaluation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia. Students benefit tremendously from seeing themselves reflected in the faculty, staff, and student peers who make up the campus community. This is how we can start keeping our students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His scholarly focus is on African American religion, philosophy, history, and culture. Outside of academia, Walker was founding president of the Center for Faith, Justice and Reconciliation; senior fellow for Religious Freedom at the Freedom Forum Institute; and member of the U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Two prominent efforts to diversify music in academia are the new University of Arkansas’ (UA) Arkansas Center for Black Music and the creation of the George Walker Center for Equity and Inclusion in Music at the University of Rochester’s (UR) Eastman School of Music (Eastman). This article was published in our June 2023 issue.

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HEPI

JUNE 27, 2024

These experiences provide academics with an updated understanding of employer needs, foster opportunities for industry-relevant research, secure funding, and establish improved links between academia and businesses. The university has a history of providing academics with paid placements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Like all UPR faculty, we carry a 12-credit teaching load, and in the midst of UPR’s fiscal crisis, a basic teaching load of 15 credits has been spotted more than once on the horizon. This is one in a series of articles about New York University's Faculty Resource Network.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. A tragic moment in history propelled the theoretical physicist’s decision to attend MIT for graduate school and to bring about meaningful change as a leader. “I

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Additionally, if an OER appears on an organization’s website, it is important to research the procedures for getting material published on that website along with understanding the history and purpose of the host site.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

I think it evolved naturally,” said Armstrong-Mensah, who is also the lead faculty member for the school’s Ghana study abroad program, referring to her focus on public health. “I I don’t know that there’s been a point in time in history where we haven’t concerned ourselves with any of these.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Image: Patty Limerick, co-founder and longtime faculty director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West, says her firing last week continues to shock her, especially as she had been planning to step down soon anyway. He referred questions Tuesday to a university spokesperson.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. In practice, these experiences require a level of administrative and logistical effort that is difficult for faculty to manage. Smaller cities (where most people in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I I was afforded opportunities to navigate higher education because of the presence of faculty of color, because of the presence of Latino faculty,” Galan said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And then I'm interested in complicating them with the other truths of American history.” Entering higher ed and academia, she went on to earn a B.A. “I'm interested in the ways that we embrace these stories as a part of historical accuracy and national narratives. in English from Morgan State, then a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

In 2023, Chua received the Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize by the Buckley Institute, which acknowledges Yale faculty members who cultivate intellectual diversity both in and outside the class. When I first joined the [Yale Law] faculty, I would go to a faculty meeting that would be 90% white males.

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ACRLog

MARCH 31, 2024

I have collaborated with faculty, staff, students, and community members to make these events successfully happen. I am particularly proud of my involvement in creating virtual and in-person book displays for Latinx Heritage Month and Black History Month.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni with a single place to report nonemergency complaints or concerns, including those involving harassment and sexual misconduct. The university also administers Diversity 360, a three-hour diversity education program required for all incoming students, staff, and faculty.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In contrast, about 25 percent of college faculty and staff are unionized or covered by a collective bargaining agreement. Labor activism has surged at universities since 2013, adding about 120 new faculty chapters. Academia is a calling. Will it accelerate the process of hiring a more diverse faculty?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Now an economist at Microsoft, Edelman received four degrees, including a law degree, from Harvard; joined the faculty there at age 26; and went on to expose significant online misdeeds, his lawsuit says. His posting caused Blinkx shares to fall the most in the company’s history.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Compensation that doesn’t match the cost of living and inequitable working conditions are pushing scholars out of academia. The UC’s non-tenure-track faculty union, which is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, nearly went on strike last year over job stability concerns. But the pay gulf remains wide.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. But I was impressed by how much you do in publishing to build up a book.”

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Being a tenured or adjunct professor is a job that is unique to higher education, and the different types of faculty roles leave some asking: what is a tenured professor? A tenured professor is a faculty member at a college or university who has a full-time teaching position and strong job security that protects academic freedom.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Navigating the Crossroads of Tradition and Modern Market Dynamics Colleges and universities have a long history of helping students transform their lives. Thinking of students as “buyers” or “consumers” is a concept that might make academia squirm.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting Over the weekend, lots of folks working in academia learned that the OpenAI, ChatGPT interface is now capable of producing convincing (though uninspired) college student quality writing to just about any prompt within seconds.

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HEPI

JANUARY 15, 2023

Women were no longer to be permitted to study in Afghan universities, nor to be on the faculty. Faculties put their names to their objections. But these are not only matters of history. Then in December came the news that was the logical extension of this educational gender apartheid. Showing solidarity in practical ways.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This past fall, we welcomed the largest first-year class in our history—at a time when college enrollment is dropping nationwide. All the academia fades away in that moment to one prevailing thought: this moment is the beginning. Seeking stories from campus leaders, faculty members and staff for our new Student Success focus.

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The PIE News

MAY 16, 2023

Semester at Sea has a storied history that began with its maiden voyage in 1963. On past programs, learners have met heads of state, Nobel Laureates, and other notable figures in politics, academia, and entertainment Over the past 60 years and 100 plus voyages, more than 74,000 voyagers have become SAS alumni.

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