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Empowering educators: Academic convergence with industry for enhanced student employability

HEPI

Chan, Head of Professional Development and Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, advocates for mandatory work experiences for academics. This symbiotic relationship between academia and industry ensures that educational curricula remain relevant and rooted in reality, aligning with the workforce’s dynamic needs.

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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. Minority Male Initiative — Broward College.

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WCET’s Favorite Read, Watch, and Listens – Summer 2023

WCET Frontiers

These suggestions are a mix of personal and professional development podcasts, books, articles, and shows. The short book does cover that history briefly, but goes deeper into racism and struggles to overcome it in her life in Texas. Hello and welcome to WCET’s annual summer media review and recommendations list!

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A pathway to graduate school for Latinx students

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Latinx students can have a tough time navigating the numerous structural and institutional challenges that work against them in academia, especially when it comes to attending and succeeding in graduate school. And being on that journey does not mean that you have to abandon your family, community or cultural values.

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Which Side Are You On?

Inside Higher Ed

Academia is a calling. These institutions should have integrated more professional development and career preparation into their degree programs. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. students a decade ago or more and moved to terminal master’s. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Study finds women college leaders of color face more bias

Inside Higher Ed

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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