University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

Can we embrace the past while accommodating the future of academia? At Max Lowenthal Hall, we designed for todays students, while preserving and referencing a modernist history, and providing flexibility to adapt to future trends. Max Lowenthal Hall, home of the Saunders College of Business, was completed in 1977.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

for physical science and history majors. For example, several survey respondents observed that academics were not required to connect academia to prospective employment opportunities. The unemployment rate for English majors was 2.3%, which is near that of all college graduates and those on different academic paths.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. in history. “I He also leads work at Humanities Indicators and holds a Ph.D.

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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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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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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

Last year saw 15 strikes, the highest number of strikes in academia in at least 20 years, and the surge has continued into 2023 Thousands of workers at universities have gone on strike in 2023 amid new union contract negotiations in demand of pay increases that align with the effect high inflation rates have had on the cost of living.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A graduate of Morehouse College, Canton earned a master’s degree in Black studies at The Ohio State University and a doctorate in history at Temple University. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person. Two new hires are expected this year.

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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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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. It’s not an ‘either/or’ option.

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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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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. We know with the history of higher education that dominant voices have been heard. However, there is an oversight that continues to happen. This is how we can start keeping our students.

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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. history survey course to be delivered in the summer.

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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

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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Gaston Gayles directly addressed the toxicity of the constantly productive, highly competitive environment in academia. Joy 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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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

On the other hand, universities can be spaces where peace studies, conflict resolution programs, and global diplomacy are taughtan important counterbalance that HEI highlights, showing how academia can be a force for peace amidst the militarization of knowledge.

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totallyrewired

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Mick Grierson (Professor and Research Leader, CCI) *AI and Languages with Helen McAllister (Associate Dean of International Student Experince, UAL) *A Short History of AI in Art Schools with Catherine Mason (Author) *Generative AI and the Automating of Academia with Prof.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Erik Gellman, a tenured associate professor of history at UNC, of HB 715, officially called the Higher Education Modernization & Affordability Act. Eichner was particularly concerned about the bill in light of recent history. Our rankings would fall precipitously.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Significant progress has also been made in academia. Dr. Donald Collins, an assistant professor for the Department of History at Loyola University Maryland, said people have to consider the history of what this report has highlighted. Black high school attainment in the last 60 years has increased from 24.8%

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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

MAY 19, 2023

They give us advice on how things went for them, advice on strategy, and just mutual support and encouragement, reminders of why we're doing this, why it matters, how we will be on the right side of history in the end, things like that." the highest number in academia in at least 20 years, according to The Guardian.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. Still, I wish Bunch’s reporting had surfaced some of the issues that those of us within academia are debating today as we try to confront challenges of student costs and access while navigating significant structural demographic and funding challenges.

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SRHE

MARCH 6, 2023

It is now accepted that the ‘leaky pipeline’ of academia, whereby ‘non-traditional’ ( eg working-class, BAME) participants remain absent from professorial and higher managerial positions within UKHE is adversely affecting the diversity of scholarship and leadership. arguing that the legacy of elitism persists in relation to higher education.

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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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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

. “We mustn’t kill liberal education in order to save it, but we must also recognize that it is under genuine threat and that if it fails to adapt, it will only become even more marginal and peripheral,” wrote Steven Mintz, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. What can we do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Despite being immensely privileged with respect to other K-12 teachers, whose ranks I left to join academia, and to the growing number of non-tenure-track colleagues at UPR, my teaching and activist commitments leave me very little time for scholarly production.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

I don’t know that there’s been a point in time in history where we haven’t concerned ourselves with any of these.” In academia, she taught as an instructor in the Emory University Center for Human Health and assistant professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine, where she designed the Master of Public Health Global Health Track.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. As authors like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker have pointed out, humanity is better off by most measures—wealth, child mortality, education levels and more—than at any point in modern history.

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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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Today's Learner

MAY 23, 2024

To celebrate AAPI Heritage Month, we’re highlighting a just few of many Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders who have made an impact on the history of academia, public health, poetry and broader public education. Margaret “Mom” Chung Doctor Margaret Chung was first Chinese American woman to become a physician.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The university said in a statement late Tuesday that it "appreciates former director Patty Limerick’s significant scholarly contributions to academia and the American West. This does not affect Limerick’s tenured position as professor of history or her ability to conduct research."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Those are places where we find hope, where we find a safe haven to sustain our work and to navigate academia.” Carlos Galan Institution:  University of California, Riverside Graduate Program:   Ph.D., Higher Education Administration and Policy Education:   M.Ed.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

By extending the reach beyond academia, we support greater engagement between research, policy and general public, and foster an informed society. Collective action: what’s the best approach for academia, policy, and industry to work together to bridge the innovation gap and forecast workforce needs?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

People outside of academia may be better positioned to evaluate the impact of candidate’s scholarship. · Carefully assess why disconnects occur between external and internal evaluators. The very people evaluating minoritized faculty may be those who have subjected them to overt bias or disrespect.

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