Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 14, 2024

Such insights underscore the imperative to prioritize holistic support structures within academia to foster student well-being and academic success. The prevailing narrative of academia glorifies productivity and resilience while overlooking the human aspect of our experiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. in Sociology of Education with a policy concentration; Teachers College Columbia University; and Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Hampshire College; M.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

One day, while walking to a work meeting at a university in a supposedly progressive Northeast state, I encountered a disheartening sight. The shock of this encounter was amplified by the fact that it occurred at a predominantly white university. One line resonated deeply with me: "When you deny a voice, you deny humanity."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

These academics, many of whom were Jewish or politically dissident (like Oskar and Dieter), sought refuge in American universities where they could continue their work unencumbered by the oppressive ideologies that had overtaken their homeland. Williams is a doctoral student at The Ohio State University.

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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. With over a decade of experience in academia, Dr. Conley specializes in fostering innovative teaching environments, promoting faculty development, and driving student success initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Those opportunities led Howard-Baptiste to Miami University in Ohio where she earned degrees in exercise science, health promotion, and a Ph.D. She worked her way through the ranks as a professor, eventually landing at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and then an internship opportunity in the Office of the Provost came her way.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Using social media as a way to amplify one’s own reach in academe, was one of many topics discussed during a University of Michigan panel on how diversity scholars have navigated this tool. We're sharing our scholarship but we're also sharing little bits of who we are as humans. I do think there is a way to use it to be authentic.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 31, 2025

Dehumanizing Bureaucracy Severance also critiques how systems of power, driven by bureaucracy, strip employees of their humanity. Universities rely on complex bureaucratic systems to manage operations, from student admissions to faculty performance assessments.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 5, 2025

NextGenAIs founding members include universities, research centers, and public institutions from the United States and abroad. The Ohio State University, for example, will explore advancements in digital health and therapeutics. Boston Childrens Hospital, the Boston Public Library, and OpenAI itself are also part of the initiative.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 29, 2025

These hostile work environments have profound consequences, leading many talented educators to leave academia entirely or return to clinical practice. The Scope of Bullying in Nursing Academia Bullying in higher education is a widespread and systemic issue. Fostering a Culture of Civility Clark et al.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

To emphasize, research indicates that curriculum designers and university stakeholders need to provide best-practice examples of how to utilize AI tools to effectively and positively promote the use of AI for students advantage (Deroncle-Acosta et al. Ai Meets Academia. 2024, 9). SAGE Open 14 (3). Huang, Anna Y.Q., Nacheva, Radka.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. 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 article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

But in the midst of an artificial intelligence gold rush, can universities ensure everyone plays fair? With world-class research and global partnerships, universities have an opportunity, and a responsibility, to shape AI’s trajectory. The panic around AI replacing human effort has calmed as knowledge has grown.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Generative AI and automating academia in the style of Bauhaus The landscape of academia is undergoing a seismic shift with the advent of generative AI tools like ChatGPT. The essence of academia, which thrives on critical thinking and innovative exploration, could be at risk if the human element is excessively automated.

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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. He also co-directed documentary film, “Fifeville.”

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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? The post A practical way to modernize midcentury academic spaces for today’s learners appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

As a soon-to-be septuagenarian, current university faculty member and educational researcher, the guiding principle learn throughout life resonates with me. Both then, as K-12 educator and grandmother of six, and now in my university work, my life is iteratively enriched through intergenerational learning.

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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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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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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Image: Campaigners want to stop Spanish universities from obtaining the right to take positions on nonacademic issues guaranteed by law, which they claim will muzzle minority views. “If a university expresses opinions like that, the people who don’t share them are going to feel excluded.”

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. 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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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A plagiarism war has erupted since Claudine Gay announced her resignation from Harvard University. It’s totally unpredictable,” said Michael Berube, an author and professor of literature at Penn State University, according to Government Technology. When there is less human writing on the internet, what will that mean? .”

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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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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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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. ” No argument from me on this one. Nothing about public disinvestment?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

The event includes sessions led by experts in academia, on matters such as publishing strategies, pedagogy, mentoring, service commitments, work-life balance, tenure, and contextualizing salient identities in academic environments. "I I arrived at ELEVATE wondering if the tenure track was right for me.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

In addition, colleges and universities are increasingly exploring how AI can streamline administrative tasks and support faculty efforts to create more accessible course materials. AI tools, such as those that assist in automating tasks or performing data analytics, also enable staff to focus on more personalized engagement with students.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Two world-renowned universities in London are partnering with technology learning specialists in a bid to foster skills needed to succeed in the technology sector. In partnerships announced this week, Imperial College London has linked up with online coding bootcamp provider HyperionDev.

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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.” in polymer materials from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and a Ph.D. Wang holds a B.S. and an M.S.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This time of year, at my university, and perhaps at yours as well, we are preparing to submit documentation for our annual performance reviews. While my university has official channels for doing this publicly, Ive had some of my most meaningful exchanges in informal interactions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Gerald Carter Title: Assistant Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University Age: 39 Education: B.S., Cornell University; M.S., University of Western Ontario; and Ph.D., Cornell University; M.S., University of Western Ontario; and Ph.D., Seek out constructive criticism.

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University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Without proper mediation, those shortcuts can resurface years later at the highest echelons of academia. Pines of the University of Maryland. Other notable examples include Alade Mcken and LaVar Charleston, the DEI officers of Columbia and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively.

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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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