Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Her pivot from medical school aspirations to a career in health education is now a lesson she shares with young people: life is a journey, not a checklist. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste was certain shed become a doctor, but her college years told a different story.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

To truly support student success, we must move beyond the metrics and prioritize the human connections that make higher education meaningful. For instance, a students decision to withdraw from school is rarely based on a single factor that can be quantified, such as failing a class or missing a certain number of credits.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

Youre going back to school to get a masters. And the next day, he sat me down and made me apply for graduate schools and graduate programs, recounts Ford. I dont care whether [the school] is an HBCU, PWI, North, South, is in Alaska or around the world. His advisor even helped pay some of the application fees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. 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. Dr. Corey D.

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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. candidates that have only the most limited prospects of a tenure-track job, whether at a two- or four-year school.

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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? addition that nearly doubled the size of the school. This included a renovation of the existing building and a 38,000 sq.

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HEPI

MARCH 6, 2025

Interventions in higher education are frequently designed at either the module or school level, with the intention to eventually scale up. For example, a student support programme may go from being implemented within the school of psychology to across the whole institution.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

Thus, with our unprecedented longevity, its important for the traditional image of college students, those transitioning from high school and primarily in the second and third decades of life, to evolve. We will be learning alongside our grandchildren. I am excited for my next 30 years!

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Artificial intelligence, or AI , is the term to describe the creation of computer systems that are capable of carrying out tasks that traditionally require human intelligence. ChatGPT is a computer application that can communicate with human beings in real-time. ChatGPT in academia: Is the future artificial? What is ChatGPT?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

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. Graduate school does not need to be a lonely, solitary endeavor, and it’s so much better when it isn’t.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. Colleges and universities hailing from both sides of the fence are inching ever closer to the middle, integrating lessons in the humanities with STEM-based curriculum—and vice versa. More from UB: Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril.

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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. billion gift to fund the Doerr School of Sustainability, its first new school in 70 years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

The problem Ramirez’s doctoral research is looking into has to do with structural changes to lymph nodes in the human body and how such changes relate to the functionality of the overall immune system. Grad school is so difficult. “It’s just really cool to be able to solve a problem within your body using engineering solutions.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. The pain of their deaths is not unlike the experiences Black women in academia have long endured. deGregory Obviously, no one felt and feels this loss more keenly than Epps’ family, friends, and close colleagues.

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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. High Graduate Success Rate: Within six months of graduation, 96% of alums are employed or enrolled in graduate programs, with 94% accepted into their top-choice graduate schools. Diverse Community: With 27% U.S.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

One of the cleaning supervisors we spoke to, for example, explained how his early start enabled him to be back home in time to take his children to school. They are both based in the School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She blogs here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

In the days following her suicide, Moseley went on paid administrative leave while the school hired a a third party to review “potential personnel issues and concerns.” Bonds called for transparency from the school and said that his concern is for the well-being of Lincoln students. “As

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HEPI

APRIL 23, 2024

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Roger Watson, Academic Dean, School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China and outgoing President of the National Conference of University Professors. Obtaining funding certainly is a major distraction in some corners of academia.

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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. After she told him, he said, “Hmmm… the school has definitely changed.” She requested that the school put her in touch with Black women who worked there. “I Dr. Robin L.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 4, 2024

Metzler, a true visionary in academia, healthcare, and diversity, passed away on Saturday, March 23, at his home in Grenada. ” With degrees in law and human rights from both Columbia University and the University of Oxford, and doctorates from Aberdeen, his academic journey was distinguished. Christopher A. Christopher A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

It’s a perfect rejoinder to the grim tone of just seconds earlier and an eloquent statement of the film’s purpose: to offer an alternative to the negativity that can pervade discussion of the Black experience in academia and to reflect the beauty that can grow when faculty of color are supported and support each other. It’s spectacular.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Her participation in the NIH R25 program enabled her to engage in research with Dr. Thomas Nathaniel at the University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Greenville. Agbomi’s interest areas involve tissue engineering, which will be her research for graduate school. “I We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.”

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

From report cards in elementary school to doctoral dissertation defenses to tenure and promotion procedures, the academy structures itself around the individual. This time of year, at my university, and perhaps at yours as well, we are preparing to submit documentation for our annual performance reviews.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Other notable mentions: Dr. Stuart Rayfield, Columbus State University Dr. Cheryl McConnell, Saint Joseph’s University, the school’s first female president.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Her participation in the NIH R25 program enabled her to engage in research with Dr. Thomas Nathaniel at the University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Greenville. Agbomi’s interest areas involve tissue engineering, which will be her research for graduate school. “I We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

He never saw himself pursuing a career in academia until his high school biology teacher encouraged him to apply for a scholarship to Cornell University. “It At OSU, he researches cooperation in vampire bats, asking important questions that reveal answers about not only bat behavior, but human behavior.

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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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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Chi Zhang, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. See HEPI’s recent output on China : Michael Natzler (ed.),

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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. I had attended a high school that offered many advanced classes.

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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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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. Our K-12 schools are more diverse than ever before. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Now, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health is recognizing and honoring her with the 2023 ASPPH Early Career Teaching Excellence Award for her most recent work as a clinical associate professor at the Georgia State University School of Public Health, a role she has held since August 2017. “I

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SRHE

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Previous research by the Centre discovered that pressures within schools dampen students’ expressed curiosity in questions about the nature of reality and human personhood and limit the development of their epistemic insight into how science, religion and the wider humanities relate.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Students will use it: Get over it As a member of his school’s professional sales department, Lawrence believes it’s his responsibility to expose his students to any tool that maximizes student success. “Human writers draw from our experience, judgment, and intuition.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed., school counseling, University of Maryland, College Park; and Ph.D., I didn’t even know what graduate school was until I was an undergrad,” Mayes recalls. They planted the seed that graduate school was possible,” says Mayes.

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