Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Dr. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste After a tough love encounter with science and biology courses, she realized the medical field wasnt her calling. Her pivot from medical school aspirations to a career in health education is now a lesson she shares with young people: life is a journey, not a checklist.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But if top universities genuinely want to lead, a key roadblock remains: around the nation and the world, leading institutions are structurally unprepared for the fossil fuel industry’s assault on the interests and values of academia. Academia is founded on the premise of truth seeking. And that means fossil-free research today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. The presentations spark interest and possibly ignite a passion for learning more, which is how he found his career in academia. We have all the data that shows you can still go to med school,” he says.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

At the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, content that is fundamental to the practice is integrated throughout the undergraduate medical school experience with components known as curricular threads. Students identify approaches that best identify and mitigate individual and system-level biases.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Adelphi also introduced Students Beyond the Binary, a new student organization focused on transgender and gender-nonconforming issues. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. These groups organize goals centered on recruiting, retention, engagement, and the enhancement of the campus experience.

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ACPA

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

I’m also the advisor of a student organization that forms primarily by the international students at the Peabody College in the master level going on with that. You’d be surprised that so many organizations do not know policies related to hiring international candidates. And also, I think the reality of academia.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

While this problem is often framed by academia as a decrease in the supply of students—the so-called “enrollment cliff,” the hot job market, and so on—I think it is better understood as a failure to respond to changing demand and new opportunities. Mr. Hadhad was midway through medical school when he fled Syria.

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