Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

According to Caroline Leland, a member of the bargaining team for University of Michigan graduate student labor union Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO), striking was a last-ditch effort. Contact and collaboration of this kind occur amid other higher ed labor organizations as well. So academia is actually the extreme case of that.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. 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. there were protests on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

TCUs are unique in that their founding principle is to serve indigenous people and their nations, connecting their history to their future, and empowering a new generation of learners with the skills to uplift their communities. The distinctive cultural focus of TCUs is now paired with the academic rigor of a Ph.D.,

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Should you organize and participate in a campus conversation about After the Ivory Tower Falls ? ” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. Is it worth collecting a group of colleagues, scheduling a physical and virtual room, and scrounging up the funds to buy everyone a copy?

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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

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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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Many top universities have longstanding partnerships with military contractors, defense organizations, and intelligence agencies. By following the muckraker tradition of exposing corruption and exploitation, HEI investigates how the pursuit of profit, power, and prestige within academia intersects with larger global crises.

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ACRLog

APRIL 18, 2023

When I first encountered Banned Books Week as a new librarian in 2015, book bans felt like a quaint, relatively nonthreatening relic of history to me. However, the large majority of book bans underway today are not spontaneous, organic expressions of citizen concern.

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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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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 individuals and organizations chosen are those whose contributions to higher education are consistent with the highest standards of excellence.

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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. And in her particular case, those issues have to do with white power activists.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“You know, we’ve had decades of very solid support from the university leadership and there was a reason for that, because—I’m not sure if this is a little bit of vanity or just accuracy—I’ve done everything imaginable for years here to build trust between a university-based organization and the general public.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. These are the real impacts.” of non-LGBTQ people.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Explaining or discussing faith can ignite heated, passionate and explosive debates in academia. Sponsored: A religious organization provides financial support for the institution with the expectation the beliefs are upheld and promoted. And yet, faith has played and continues to play a large part in higher education.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history. He is a board member for Equal Justice Works – a nonprofit organization dedicated to employing talent in public service – and the National Woman’s Law Center.

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#Deaning

MARCH 27, 2023

The translation has been named by one of Russia’s top literary organizations as one of ten “Books by and about China” for 2023. She completed a minor in German Studies during her undergrad and joined the Department of History in 2020 as their Academic Programs Assistant. ◾ “Truth or Treason?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. Some students envision careers in art, music, or performance, while others see the value of the arts within the context of different career paths.

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

70% of adjunct faculty work on per-semester contracts, and 25% hold jobs outside academia to supplement their work and incomes since they generally have a lower salary than tenured professors. Faculty Information System (FIS) collects and organizes faculty’s academic output in a user-friendly, centralized system.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: When Julianna Barnes set her sights on a career in academia, she envisioned eventually becoming a vice president of an institution and assumed it would be her pinnacle role in the profession. “Serving as chancellor was a natural progression, given my professional history,” she said.

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Creatrix Campus

MAY 22, 2023

With a membership of over 25,000 engineers, the organization provides a platform for engineers to connect, learn, and grow professionally. Overview of Engineers Ireland - History and Background Engineers Ireland is a professional body for engineers in Ireland, founded in 1835 as the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Adelphi also introduced Students Beyond the Binary, a new student organization focused on transgender and gender-nonconforming issues. The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

At that year’s How Class Works conference at SUNY Stony Brook, academics from history, political science, labor and industrial relations, and other fields debated Zweig’s use of the term “working class.” The good news is that some are organizing for change.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

President Blake recalled how his path to the presidency of this historic institution had included his previous career in the technology sector, well outside of academia. To celebrate this year’s International Podcast Day , the UIA revisits the most popular episodes of this podcast from 2022 and 2023. Click here for full audio.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 11, 2024

History and Evolution of Campus Management Systems Over the years, Campus Management Systems (CMS) have undergone a sweep of change in response to changing educational demands and technological breakthroughs. Important courses in academia usually consist of: 1. Easily creates accurate reports on various verticals.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

President Blake recalled how his path to the presidency of this historic institution had included his previous career in the technology sector, well outside of academia. Brian Blake sat down with us to discuss his first year at Georgia State University. Click here for full audio. Click the banner below to watch the video.

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SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

Open access John Sherer (North Carolina) blogged for The Scholarly Kitchen on 23 March 2023 about a recent initiative to publish open access monographs in history, reporting technical problems, author resistance but also much greater take-up/use, with about three times as many reported individual engagements as even a successful paywalled monograph.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

One thing I've noticed in higher ed is not all levels of the organization actually know what the goals of the institution are. Vendors can be a great help, because they can be their justification for creating that level of transparency up and down the organization." Co-Host: Bridget Burns , CEO, University Innovation Alliance Dr.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In an interview on CBS This Morning she stated: “It’s pretty clear that my tenure was not taken up because of political opposition, because of discriminatory views against my viewpoints, and I believe my race and my gender… My peers in academia said that I was deserving of tenure.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So I guess that just means, we’ve had a history of,when we have problems, we just need to crack on and solve them because if we wait for other people to help the problem will have overtaken us. It never works in most organizations. Just because of the function of time zones, we’re literally when we are up. Am I crazy?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

For example, an institution known for forensic science might develop an online MBA program with a specialization in that area, leveraging its unique history and specialization. But lately, there’s been so much significant change in academia, that I’ve fallen much more into a role of looking at the bigger, broader trend.

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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.

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ACRLog

MAY 16, 2025

Because I want to talk to you about an organization I joined last year, an organization Im hoping youll join as well: Authors Against Book Bans. Another thing I should admit is that book bans werent something I necessarily worried about when I was still in academia.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Significant pushback in the form of protests and demonstrations have come from student and faculty organizations, including United Faculty of Florida (UFF) and the University of North Florida (UNF) Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Ron DeSantis’ efforts to defund DEI offices at Florida’s public colleges and universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. from Stanford in the 1980s and went on to become one of the leading scholars of climate science history, as well as a fierce advocate for the role of academia in advancing urgent climate solutions. But Oreskes refused the offer.

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HESA

MAY 4, 2023

The second half of this interview in particular provides some really interesting insight into issues of what enablers are required for academia to really turn the corner on CO 2 emissions. They have an off-campus organic farm, which the students work at, and in town they sell both the produce as well as food made from the produce.

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