Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

Data has become the cornerstone of decision-making and institutional strategy in today’s higher education landscape. From tracking retention rates to measuring academic performance, data offers a clear, quantifiable view of how students and institutions are progressing. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Forced from their own institutions, figures like Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, and Thomas Mann arrived in the United States and made intellectual contributions that would change their fields, and the world. The pressures faced by those of us whose work intersects with race, gender, history, human rights, feels like a modern form of exile.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 31, 2025

While this premise seems far-fetched, the shows underlying critique of institutional control, bureaucratic systems, and dehumanizing workplace environments mirrors certain aspects of U.S. Dehumanizing Bureaucracy Severance also critiques how systems of power, driven by bureaucracy, strip employees of their humanity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

in counseling & human development, University of Georgia Career mentors: Dr. Darris Means, Clemson University; Dr. Tiffany J. But for Dr. Jason Garvey, executive director of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment and professor of education at UVM, going above and beyond is characteristic for Williams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Even within the supposedly safe confines of academia, we are not immune to these oppressive practices. One line resonated deeply with me: "When you deny a voice, you deny humanity." Educational institutions often look the other way or fail to take proactive measures to dismantle this system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Although Howard-Baptiste initially planned to pursue a career in the sports and fitness industry, inspired by her years as a high school volleyball player and intramural athlete in college, she eventually decided to go into academia. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The webinar – hosted by UMich’s National Center of Institutional Diversity (NCID) – took place on Tuesday and was moderated by Edmund Graham, associate director of the NCID. We're sharing our scholarship but we're also sharing little bits of who we are as humans. My work is not my life. I have a full life outside of that.

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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?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“Grace” Jinliu Wang will become the 17th president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), effective Apr. WPI is a world-class institution with a unique and vital approach to teaching, learning, and discovery. Dr. Grace Wang “WPI’s founding principles of theory and practice resonate strongly with me,” Wang said.

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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

JUNE 20, 2023

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) will host its 8th annual early-career faculty professional development program, ELEVATE (Enriching Learning, Enhancing Visibility & Training Educators), this week. I arrived at ELEVATE wondering if the tenure track was right for me. "I

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 5, 2025

The initiative is designed to catalyze progress at a rate faster than any one institution would alone, according to an announcement by OpenAI. NextGenAIs founding members include universities, research centers, and public institutions from the United States and abroad.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

Through seeking and celebrating diversity of thought, intergenerational learning in academia will advance more holistic, compassionate learning environments. Its time for educational institutions to embrace intergenerational learning, paving the way for a future where people of all ages learn, grow and thrive together.

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University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

This reaction is perfectly in line with studies of how materials, forms, colors, light and textures influence human psychology. 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.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists.

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HEPI

MARCH 6, 2025

TASO is partnering with The Policy Institute at King’s College London and Exogeneity to support a new initiative to scale behavioural insights , building on a previous study to turn evidence into action. False positives can arise in a manner of ways, but we can split them into three categories: statistical error, human error, and fraud.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

It draws attention to issues such as low pay, lack of job security, limited benefits, and the increasing reliance on contingent labor in academia. The publication explores the potential for automation and artificial intelligence to displace human workers, raising concerns about job security and the future of work.

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

As a seasoned academic who has witnessed the advance of AI over four decades, I believe that any reluctance to adapt to this digital dawn will only undermine institutions dedicated to intellectual and scientific discovery. In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. He also leads work at Humanities Indicators and holds a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. Institute of Peace U.S. Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Dr. Corey D.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

When there was a recession, higher ed institutions could count on an uptick in enrollment. Institutions were building multiple new buildings and programs to offer students, and new buildings and dormitories to teach and house the same students. million undergraduates. Unfortunately, those go-go days did not last. million in 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. ” What does Cowen worry about when he worries about higher ed?

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

Advancements and Opportunities Utilization of AI offers institutions unprecedented potential to tailor educational experiences, which could be instrumental in advancing inclusive practices. The Educause study found that while AI is reshaping policies related to these concerns, only 23% of institutions have adequate guidelines in place.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“This unique program combines King’s global leadership in digital humanities and psychology with the experiences of veteran and junior UX designers,” Mark Lester, chief partnerships officer at FourthRev , explained. It launched a similar program in product management in 2022.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In November I helped with two major outreach initiatives, a conference and a multi-day medical humanities event series, neither of which would have had any hope of success if they had fallen on the shoulders of one individual as opposed to a team.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). He then goes on to recite statistics about hundreds of program closures in the humanities right across the United States over the past decade.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In June, Harvard University announced a $200 million gift to launch the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, an academic center dedicated to the study of one of humanity’s most pressing threats. In May, Stanford University announced a $1.1

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

In my book Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022), I dive deep into my personal experience and share those of other women from across academia with the goal of shedding light and providing language for us to have open conversations about this workplace phenomenon.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

University of Maryland Career mentors: Claudia Coen, Irby Lovette, John Hermanson, and Dan Riskin, all at Cornell University; Brock Fenton, Western University; Jerry Wilkinson, University of Maryland; Rachel Page, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Damien Farine Jr., Cornell University; M.S., University of Western Ontario; and Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

She’s found a way to pursue both, having earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and now working toward a Ph.D. She was fortunate to have attended a diverse and inclusive undergraduate institution, never having to worry about the way she looked or her cultural background.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Two notable exceptions, both in the US context, are Peter Magolda’s (2016) ethnography of cleaners on two university campuses, The Lives of Campus Custodians , and Verónica Caridad Rabelo and Ramaswami Mahalingam’s ( 2019 ) article, reporting on a mixed-method study of cleaners conducted in a single institution. She blogs here.

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ACRLog

MARCH 21, 2025

In a shocking turn of events, students react better when you treat them as human beings and act human yourself. Assessing the Effectiveness of Academic Integrity Institutional Policies: How Can Honor Code and Severe Punishments Deter Students CheatingModerating Approach? Int J Educ Integr 20 (26). link] Janinovic, J.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Walker-Griffea’s career in academia began at age 21. The human development she studied in her doctoral program opened her eyes to what was needed on the college level to ensure student success. People have chosen to attend Mott, because they believe that they can succeed, because we have care and concern for everybody.”

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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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University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Without proper mediation, those shortcuts can resurface years later at the highest echelons of academia. ” Leaders accused of cheating will exacerbate higher education’s political divisiveness , says Phillip Magness, senior fellow at the Independent Institute, a think tank. Part of that is due to the barrage of scandals.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Tensions between individual and institutional politics are particularly pronounced in Catalonia, where university statements supporting pro-independence leaders have attracted legal penalties. The January open letter by Academia for Coexistence had gathered almost 1,300 signatures from academics across Spain and beyond at the time of writing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Aspiring to become a researcher and science communicator, Ealy is driven to understand humanity and science’s place in the world as it is. Academia can be incredibly disconnected from the world around it, but my community keeps me grounded.” The work that I am doing is actively contributing to that,” she says. “It

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