University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

Can we embrace the past while accommodating the future of academia? In a recent project at the Rochester Institute of Technology, our design team confronted these very questions. While brutalist buildings may be emblematic of an architectural movement, are they suited to the needs of 21st century learners?

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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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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do? ” The post Oh, the humanit(ies)!

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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. Institute of Peace U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

Her resignation, announced on Tuesday, marked the end of a tumultuous six-month tenure, making her the shortest-serving president in Harvard’s 388-year history. Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth faced similar criticism for her response but has retained the university’s support.

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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. Many institutions often fail to assess their own readiness to support, nurture, and develop diverse student populations. However, there is an oversight that continues to happen.

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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. He began as the director of the institution’s stock portfolio, transitioning four years later to the vice president for advancement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Institutions, said Hall, need to ask themselves if their policies and practices are further silencing an already silenced population. Of the approximately 427,000 undocumented students attending a postsecondary institution, only 12.5%

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Doing that at a prestigious Research 1 institution was too important to pass up. 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.

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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. While TCUs are not a monolith, she found similarities in methodology.

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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 19, 2023

as workers in the industry demand improvements from their institutions for their ongoing labor. Most employers that are universities, that are supposed to be public good institutions, are just taking this incredibly anti-labor position in negotiations. the highest number in academia in at least 20 years, according to The Guardian.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. The creation of this Ph.D.

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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. We are a leading academic institution; leading academic institutions hire people on the tenure track,” she said. “If Our rankings would fall precipitously.”

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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. Will reading and discussing After the Ivory Tower Falls provide us within higher education with any roadmap or actionable set of ideas for how we might change our institutions for the better? The answers to all these questions are “yes.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

HEI delves into in-depth investigative reporting, uncovering scandals, institutional failures, and systemic inequalities in colleges, universities, and their related businesses. In an era when many people feel disconnected from powerful institutions, journalism that uncovers uncomfortable truths is essential for mobilizing change.

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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. Smith University (JCSU, an HBCU institution) in Charlotte, N.C. I thought, ‘Why don’t we know this history?’” Lima-Neves is a professor of political science at Johnson C. says Lima-Neves. “Dr.

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totallyrewired

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Sessions include: *Creative Computing Institute’s Perspective on AI with Prof. Lawrie Phipps (Senior Research Lead, JISC) and Dr.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

That realization prompted concern due to the nature of the website and created barriers because some institutions block access to that website. Therefore, it is important not only to test that links are still active, but also to regularly check that they lead where you want your students to go to access the OERs.

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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

MAY 8, 2023

Iit also entails social privilege--being able to say “no” to claims upon one’s time from members of one’s family, community or institution—and cultural privilege: all the different ways of knowing and writing that not everybody acquires.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They see ChatGPT writing papers, maniacal zealots indoctrinating young minds with woke, left-wing ideology, or, alternatively, right-wing idealogues banning books and prohibiting the honest teaching of history. I was weighed down by the centuries of history that had shaped my place in America, but I was also determined to make a difference.

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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. The assistant principal for boys suggested she apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her father knew of MIT and encouraged her to apply.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Kathleen Belew says she studies “the history of the present.” Put another way, she studies the history that shapes issues of the modern day. Belew is in her first year as an associate professor in the department of history at Northwestern University. But the other threat is a broader attack on our political institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It’s a development historians say follows movement—particularly within the field of public history—toward broader recognition. “The weight and significance of each of these vary considerably by institution. Smoak said their work as public historians “simply did not count for promotion and tenure.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

2006) referred to this as the ‘revolving door’ problem, finding that one in every two minority hires was a replacement for a previous minority who had left the institution. They must not be penalized because their letter writers come from ‘lower-tiered’ institutions and/or are less well-known. Moreno at al.

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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. The “purchase” of higher education is rooted in a similar, deeply personal place.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

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

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From their controversial legacy admissions practices to their outsized political influence, these institutions are not merely places of learningthey are gatekeepers of social and economic power, shaping the future through both exclusion and influence.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Explaining or discussing faith can ignite heated, passionate and explosive debates in academia. institution, was founded in 1636 to train Congregational clergy. Over time, the degree to which institutions align themselves with a particular faith waxes and wanes. Blog: Just Explain It to Me! In the U.S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Fostering student success takes institutional leadership and collaboration. Price spoke with Inside Higher Ed about his philosophy for student success, current initiatives at his Illinois-based institution and the lasting efforts of development work. Q: What makes Dominican unique as an institution and as a student body?

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There is a lot going on in the world of HigherEd faculty, so in this article, we’ll break down the difference between tenured and adjunct professors, the role of faculty at an institution, and how the tenure process works. Learn more about how PeopleAdmin can support faculty and academic processes at your institution!

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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. Chua, she says, was able to point out to Rabinovich that her curiosity and questions would be a good fit for academia.

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