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Toward a more inclusive peer-review process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Those of us who work for university presses recognized over these difficult recent years that we needed to take practical steps not only to improve our processes but also to reflect on, articulate and further enact our values in our work—especially values of equity and inclusion. Encourages creativity in peer review.

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Understanding Academic Exile After the 2024 Election

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s a label that marks us as “unwelcome” and our scholarship as “controversial.” And while it’s incredibly unsettling, I believe there’s a powerful irony here – when we’re pressured and marginalized, our scholarship often grows stronger and more urgent. Our voices not only tell untold stories but demand new ways of thinking.

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Our Advice for Making College Campuses Ready for Diverse Student Populations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia. One of the most common mistakes that institutions make in their efforts to retain students is an overemphasis on tuition scholarships.

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Challenges Persist for Early-Career Black Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). There’s kind of Black academics in particular exiting academia at various stages. where Black people are far less represented in academia than they are in the U.K.,

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service.

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. We use languages that are not inclusive. We have to figure out a way to educate university folks to be more inclusive,” said Hall, citing training tools like undocumented ally training. They don’t feel like they belong,” said Hall. “If

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Communicating the Science of the Stars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But her scholarship focuses on those stars she can barely see. She expertly combines her passion for astrophysics with her passion for community by working to improve institutional systems and cultural dynamics to create more equitable and inclusive spaces,” she continues. Yeah, I study small stars,” says Ealy, a Ph.D.