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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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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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

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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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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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

How will institutions of higher education adapt and compete with these issues? However, academia hasn’t caught up with these current technological advances, including AI. The urgency for academia and higher education institutions to recognize the rapid changes in the job market and the need for immediate adaptation is pressing.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If we want to avoid just burning the whole humanities “thing” down, we need to start applying some of our fundamental humanities skills in order to communicate better with one another, to actually hear one another’s perspectives, and to build together toward something new rather than tearing each other down. (And

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

I am aging faster in academia. It is no secret that women scholars of color die earlier in academia and are less likely to be in leadership positions in upper administration in higher education institutions. Instead, I would like to humanize how best to honor death and grief in a moment in which Dr. Orinthia T.

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As Black male scholars deeply invested in education reform, we believe it is essential to reshape the narrative surrounding Black males, especially in academia. Dr. Adriel Hilton In many educational institutions, Black males are burdened with the label of "problem" rather than "promise" (Howard, 2013). 2016) Dr. Ronald W. Whitaker, II.

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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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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Many Black women also suffer intersectional discrimination out in the world, which can lead to trauma, mental health challenges, and “racial battle fatigue,” even before they step foot into academia. Higher ed institutions were not designed or built with the intention to support Black women faculty, or women at all.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. Epps herself remarked that it was an honor and privilege to serve as acting president of the institution that “I love so much, that has been such an important part of my life, and always will be.” Dr. Crystal A.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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

MARCH 26, 2023

As an unsettling synth beat plays, a quote from a recent study fades in: “Many institutions have recruited underrepresented scholars to join their faculty without attention to retaining and supporting the new recruits.” After Hall’s institutional funding ran out, she put in roughly $5,000 of her own money. Dr. Candace N.

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

However, human knowledge and expertise have a limit and cannot adapt to the real-time network needs of a campus. As academia continues to grapple with the speedy advancement of AI, CIOs must be willing to step up and educate their campuses on practical use cases of this groundbreaking technology. This is where AI shines.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Marc joins us to discuss the potential of AI in digital learning and to highlight the amazing work happening at his institution to prepare faculty and students for a future that includes working with AI. This summer, we hosted an innovative cross-disciplinary AI Institute for Teachers.

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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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The PIE News

JULY 9, 2024

It is in synergy with the erstwhile Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) Centres and Human Resource Development Centres (HRDCs) of the UGC. Keeping up with international universities, Indian higher education institutions can now hold admissions twice a year – in January and July.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

The panic around AI replacing human effort has calmed as knowledge has grown. However, success demands bold action, collaboration beyond academia, and continuous reassessment of their own evolving relationship with this transformative technology. Though there are real and mounting risks in misinformation and disinformation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Of course, institutions can’t simply hire a group of minoritized faculty and expect them to flourish without any support. “It And they weren’t looking to just hire one. Dr. Robin L.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A social and cultural historian with a specialty in the history of childhood, the family and the life course, he directed Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center and the UT system’s Institute for Transformational Learning. Nor was I the first in my family to go to college.

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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. This includes studying through interdisciplinary lenses how power relations drive human behavior and impact societies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Lidadi Agbomi Institution: Clemson University Graduate Program: Ph.D., We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.” She looks forward to learning more about the human brain and giving back to the communities that have helped her. Bioengineering Education: B.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.” She looks forward to learning more about the human brain and giving back to the communities that have helped her. Agbomi has received several honors, including the NIH NIA Outstanding Scholar Award. This year, she’s a student ambassador for the NIH R25 program.

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