ACRLog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It takes down the ivory towers of academia, bringing publicly funded research back to the public. As a Digital Projects Librarian, I primarily engage in the field of digital scholarship and receive daily inquiries regarding the scope and implications of Open Access publishing. motto in academia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia. Many institutions often fail to assess their own readiness to support, nurture, and develop diverse student populations. However, there is an oversight that continues to happen.

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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

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. Sometimes, fossil fuel companies’ routes of influence on scholarship can be very direct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

2006) referred to this as the ‘revolving door’ problem, finding that one in every two minority hires was a replacement for a previous minority who had left the institution. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. Moreno at al. Traditional standards (e.g.,

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Israeli institution Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has launched a new aid scholarships program for new immigrants following the war in Ukraine. The post Israel: BGU launches new aid scholarships appeared first on The PIE News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

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.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 14, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Much of the conversation swirling around academia this summer is about leaving academia. ” What might be the conditions that encourage and enable us to remain in academia for decades and decades? The organizational dysfunctions of academia are evergreen. Call it “the Great Stay.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Institutions, said Hall, need to ask themselves if their policies and practices are further silencing an already silenced population. Of the approximately 427,000 undocumented students attending a postsecondary institution, only 12.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

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. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

It is evident that the low African American male student graduation rates at a predominantly Black institution in the northeastern United States continue to be a concern for higher education administrators. There are serious inequities among students who graduate from colleges. Not dropout rates.

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WCET Frontiers

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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Whether in government or academia, she devoted her career to reducing inequality and increasing opportunities for others, and made everyone around her better." She held a Ph.D. Department of Commerce. "Dr. UWM recently named the Rebecca M.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Institutional leadership must show a commitment to transformation and creating an environment in which Latino students thrive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Since the racial reckoning of 2020, sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minnesota police officer, many institutions have announced cluster hires of either minoritized faculty or professors who study issues like race and justice. Now we’re seeing institutions reel that in,” she says. “I

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the work of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in higher education has expanded, several institutions have recognized the need to create a clearer and more comprehensive pathway for individuals interested in serving as DEI advocates and leaders. Through the program’s partnership with INSIGHT, students can receive scholarship funding.

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SRHE

MARCH 6, 2023

It is now accepted that the ‘leaky pipeline’ of academia, whereby ‘non-traditional’ ( eg working-class, BAME) participants remain absent from professorial and higher managerial positions within UKHE is adversely affecting the diversity of scholarship and leadership. Nevertheless, the questioning of one’s place (am I right to be here?);

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. Like most people, I did not set out to lead an institution of higher education,” he added. “I Unfortunately, he could not meet the 20-20 eyesight requirement.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Thinking of students as “buyers” or “consumers” is a concept that might make academia squirm. But in a world overflowing with choices and information, institutions should adapt to the changes and evolve to see prospective students as customers. The “purchase” of higher education is rooted in a similar, deeply personal place.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These four Examples were selected from 103 program submissions from 20 states representing institutions of higher education and community-based organizations. CSUF is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). “There is lots of good work across the country that understands the strengths and the opportunities of Hispanic students,” she adds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. The assistant principal for boys suggested she apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her father knew of MIT and encouraged her to apply.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Explaining or discussing faith can ignite heated, passionate and explosive debates in academia. institution, was founded in 1636 to train Congregational clergy. Over time, the degree to which institutions align themselves with a particular faith waxes and wanes. Blog: Just Explain It to Me! In the U.S.,

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In the wake of these demographic trends, a recent TASO publication (Andrews et al , 2023) reports that the sector is gripped by a high degree of uncertainty over the most expedient institutional approaches to adopt in dealing with disparities in progression and attainment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

And it wasn’t that we were fighting society or academia. How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? SACNAS filled that hole. It’s that we were a group people who were similarly situated … the Chicano Movement gave us identity. SACNAS gave us community.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Fostering student success takes institutional leadership and collaboration. Price spoke with Inside Higher Ed about his philosophy for student success, current initiatives at his Illinois-based institution and the lasting efforts of development work. Q: What makes Dominican unique as an institution and as a student body?

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. to offer scholarships to DACA students. Scaling Up Programs for Underrepresented Students — Georgia Institute of Technology. This plan asserts Lehigh’s unequivocal commitment to enhancing DEI and its dedication to being an anti-racist institution.

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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. It is an institution that is shaped in every way by capitalism. Graduate school is expensive.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I see them working together on interdisciplinary initiatives and serving on joint committees inside and outside of our institution. I connect to health sciences librarians across institutional boundaries, and I look up to the librarians that I encounter through conferences, workshops, and online courses. The list goes on.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

Drawing on over two decades in academia, Michele Poulos specializes in general psychology, social psychology, and human growth and development. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. Nissley, N. Arts-based learning at work: Economic down turns, innovation upturns, and the eminent practicality of arts in business.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The main reasons Tavárez cites for discounting humanities tuition are lower market value of the humanities, fewer job prospects for humanists, and lower research expenditure for humanities scholarship. First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists.

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The PIE News

MARCH 3, 2023

Giving evidence during the meeting on UK university engagement with autocracies, which focused heavily on China, Universities UK CEO Vivienne Stern insisted that member universities were following the organisation’s guidance on partnerships with institutions in autocratic countries.

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UW Presidential Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

The close of the academic year is an incredibly special time in academia, and at the University of Washington, our own unique array of traditions, milestones and rituals makes this one of the most joyful – and busy!– seasons in our community’s life.

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ACRLog

AUGUST 11, 2023

When I think about my two years at my current institution, I see a different focus each year. I’m envisioning a future at this institution for many years. While I was at my former institution for five years, I can’t place a time where I felt this “digging in.” This isn’t something I’ve experienced before.

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