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

Insight Into Diversity

But I would say those are the exceptions, not the rules,” says Nicholas Hartlep, PhD, the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education at Berea College, whose research focuses on race and equity — particularly concerning the experiences of Asian Americans — in academia. This article was published in our January/February 2024 issue.

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College writing assignments to prepare students for success at work

Inside Higher Ed

College professors not modeling good writing for students is also a problem. Student pursuing careers outside academia (that is, the vast majority of students) need practice on common types of workplace writing. Put into practice, the advice can help faculty members model good writing to students. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Three Principles for Navigating This Time of Transformational Change in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

New models are emerging that place students at the center of all we do. What is happening in higher education is the beginning stages of a transformation from the industrial-era model to a new model based on the emerging knowledge economy. In the industrial model, the driver is the provider, the institutions.

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Researcher Draws on Self-Discipline in Pursuit to Combat Alzheimer’s Disease

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Agbomi has worked closely with mentors there to investigate and research self-organizing neural units to model ischemic stroke and other neuropathology. Agbomi has also worked on analyzing data of the disruption of the extracellular morphogenesis of cardiac tissues in two avian models of cyanotic heart defects. “As

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009.

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Empowering Student Learning: Navigating Artificial Intelligence in the College Classroom 

Faculty Focus

AI-generated content may include irrelevant information because deep learning models can produce outcomes that initially appear coherent but lack depth (Cano et al. XRDS: Crossroads, the ACM Magazine for Students 29 (3): 30–35. ChatGPT and AI text generators: Should Academia adapt or resist?” Benson, Alayne. link] Naidu, Edwin.

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Scholar focuses on LGBTQ in China's universities

Inside Higher Ed

Despite an increasingly repressive environment in Chinese universities, there continues to be a “huge gap” in scholarly research on queerness in Chinese academia, according to Cui Le, a sociologist at the University of Auckland who has made it his mission to tell the world about the country’s largely invisible gay scholars.