Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The pressures faced by those of us whose work intersects with race, gender, history, human rights, feels like a modern form of exile. Upholding academic freedom is not merely a matter of policy but a stance that affirms the essential role of dissenting voices. Today, the dynamics may be different, but the parallels are certainly clear.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. Students with a special interest in humanities were found to experience a seven-grand bump, totaling $83,000. for physical science and history majors.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Racial and gender inequities still plague the field of educational measurement, from professional rank to salary, across academia, industry, and leadership roles. Rodriguez said he hopes to learn more about these written responses, particularly as they relate to leadership positions both in academia and the industry.

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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. International Religious Freedom Policy: Finding Common Ground to Advance Peace and Stability working group. Dr. Corey D. Institute of Peace U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

For example, if AI tools are used without human oversight to aid in recruitment or admissions, they may reproduce biases that disadvantage certain student groups, though the understanding of algorithmic discrimination is fragmented and requires further dedicated research.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

child labor laws, anti-trust regulations), HEI aims to create change in higher education by influencing public opinion and policy. It serves as a check on the growing power and wealth of educational institutions, particularly in light of their increasing commercialization and influence over public policy.

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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. Policy makers, journalists and the public deserve to understand the full context in which academic work is produced.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

AI-powered transformations bring new opportunities and attractive reductions in time and cost, but personalised learning and assessment require clear policies on transparency and accountability to foster trust among students and faculty. The panic around AI replacing human effort has calmed as knowledge has grown.

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University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Without proper mediation, those shortcuts can resurface years later at the highest echelons of academia. By studying safety culture across construction, mining, medical care and other industries, Strand has developed a series of recommendations for academics interested in human-error-proofing their research systems and workflow.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike. I was struck by the contrast between the significance of their work and its relative absence from research and policy discourses. They are also often absent from staff directories, university websites and policy documents.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reports of scholars being retired early or dismissed indicate that the Iranian government has ordered a cleansing of academia in the wake of protests that have gripped the country since September. But many others remain behind bars, said Jason Brodsky, policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran, a U.S.-based

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The PIE News

JULY 9, 2024

Focusing on the National Education Policy 2020’s promise to build accessible and quality education in India, the UGC is set to train over 1.5 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.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

[block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. But local governments have significant influence over policies affecting climate change—from bicycle transportation planning to housing density, tree planting, energy use and nature conservation. Teach social change.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

Participants returned to their departments with enhanced capacity in AI literacy to teach students AI fundamentals, evaluate AI-generated content, and develop educational applications and policies that explored proactive approaches to generative AI. Feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2023

Black students continue to be overrepresented among those who are the first in their families to seek higher education and, thus, are often the first ones to navigate professional environments like academia and corporate America in their Black bodies. How do you see that reflected in your course material, policies, and classroom community?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Preparing STEM-focused professionals to see the world through technological, human, societal, and cultural lenses is distinctive, especially when so brilliantly coupled with WPI’s research and innovation ecosystem.” “WPI is a world-class institution with a unique and vital approach to teaching, learning, and discovery.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Priya Madina, Director of External Affairs and Policy at Taylor & Francis. In June 2022, HEPI and Taylor & Francis hosted a successful dinner discussion around open access and evidence-based based policymaking which produced a co-authored Policy Note , and webinar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. However, policies at government and university level have yet to catch up with this surging number in the context of the deterioration of relations with China. Get our updates via email.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Will Asimov’s rules of robotics apply with regard to their potential sentience?

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

” Lawrence is one of academia’s earliest adopters of the controversial ChatGPT AI in the classroom, and thanks to it, Lawrence has witnessed a sizable elevation in student comprehension of class curriculum at a very early stage of the spring semester. “Human writers draw from our experience, judgment, and intuition.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Just three months later, ChatGPT made artificial intelligence a popular reality, and the very definition of knowledge work, and how much of it humans will continue to do, is very much in question. These recent developments in AI have the potential to displace humans from whole categories of knowledge work.

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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.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Will Asimov’s rules of robotics apply with regard to their potential sentience?

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

With it, something else begins — the long hard work of government shaped by morning-after fiscal realities, an inheritance of policy decisions that went before and brooding geopolitical weather systems which pay little heed to the triumphs and disasters of national political campaigns. It’s been a long wait. That’s revealing.

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JUNE 9, 2022

Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. My favorite term is 'a thousand flowers blooming,' because what you can do in academia which works out really well is that you can literally start a lot of things going.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

Higher Ed Challenge 6: Political and Policy Changes Challenge: Shifts in government policies , including those expected after the 2024 elections, impact higher education funding, accreditation, and regulatory requirements. However, its integration presents significant challenges.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

Curricula Wooster offers over 50 academic programs in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and arts. Distinguished Alumni Network Wooster graduates excel in various fields, including academia, business, public service, and the arts. Notably, more than 85% of students receive financial aid, with an average award of $50,000.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Higher Education Administration and Policy Education:   M.Ed. Those are places where we find hope, where we find a safe haven to sustain our work and to navigate academia.” She describes him as a “genuinely amazing human being” who “cares about everyone.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

refugee policy from the European children who fled the Nazi peril to the Central American children who arrive every day at the southern U.S. This mind-set is driven by the increasing importance of “corporate” leadership models as well as the growing predominance of STEM research culture in academia.

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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. 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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