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Let’s look outside academia for university leaders

LSE Higher Education Blog

Indeed, in taking on formal leadership roles, some will shed their academic skin in acknowledgement of the seeming incompatibility of managerial and academic interests. At an operational level, endless demands leave no time for academic pursuits for those at the summit of university leadership. The exit strategy of the failed scholar?

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Despite Increased Visibility, Asian Americans Continue to Face Barriers in Academia

Insight Into Diversity

Nicholas Hartlep, PhD “Some Asian Americans have been catapulted into pretty visible leadership roles. Hartlep also underscores the importance of understanding the diversity within the Asian American community and says that East Asians are often more visible in academia than other subgroups, such as South and Southeast Asians.

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On Authenticity and Leadership in Academe

Inside Higher Ed

A common exhortation from today’s leadership gurus in academia and popular media is to “be authentic” or your “true self” at work. Being true to ourselves is a barometer of well-being, but what if aspects of our true selves are counterproductive for us or our institution? Gunsalus, Nicholas C. But what does that mean?

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Buried Alive: The (Un) told Stories of Black Women in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The hashtag, which continues to grow each day and has turned into an independent Twitter account, has spotlighted the ways academia has persistently excluded and alienated Black academics (at all levels; across all genders). The findings of the research were disheartening while coincidentally empowering. Brandy Jones is a Ph.D.

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Diverse Ushers in New Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education , the national publication that focuses exclusively on diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia, has announced a major change in leadership, a few months before the trade publication is set to celebrate its 40 th anniversary. William Cox Jr. Diverse Vice President William Cox, Jr.,

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Silenced Voices: Confronting Linguistic Discrimination and Cultural Erasure in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even within the supposedly safe confines of academia, we are not immune to these oppressive practices. student within the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies program at Howard University. Nelson Pham is a currently a Ph.D.

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Research Leadership Matters: an interview with Professor Matthew Flinders

HEPI

In this interview with Professor Matthew Flinders, we ask Matt about his recent report, Research Leadership Matters: Agility, Alignment, Ambition , published by HEPI earlier this month. In the report, you say that you’ve never really heard of ‘research leadership’ as a phrase or concept, so what is it and why does it matter?