Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Racial and gender inequities still plague the field of educational measurement, from professional rank to salary, across academia, industry, and leadership roles. These organizations provide membership and community for qualitative and quantitative researchers, and WIM focuses on improving gender and racial equity within the field.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2024

WSP, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering veterans in higher education, has seen remarkable results – their boot camp alumni boast a 92 percent success rate, with the vast majority having graduated or on track to receive a bachelor's degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, an economist whose career has focused on public policy and academia, has been named as the next president of Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik Shafik who is currently the president of the London School of Economics, will become the first woman to lead the Ivy League institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Malaklou hosts events like "Evening with an Activist" at the bell hooks center, where students can learn tangible ways to make a difference outside of academia. She said this lesson is deliberate and acknowledges academia and graduate school can be “violent, especially for scholars of color, women, and queer folks of color.”

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Social Engagement Opportunities Imagine the potential of organizing activities that bring together alumni and current students. Bridging Academic and Professional Worlds Similarly, alumni bridge the gap between academia and the professional world. Download our ebook, The Six Benefits of Centralized Applications , today.

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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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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It is more important than ever for organizations to address these challenges, and one of the best precautions is prevention. Organizations call on ethical hackers to uncover potential security vulnerabilities that malicious hackers could exploit. We live in an era of unprecedented cybercrime, both in quantity and quality.

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University Business

OCTOBER 7, 2024

” “Academia is an industry,” he says. While “p-hacking” and other infamous forms of data manipulation are frowned upon, scientists can obscure whether their findings were organic—or a stroke of luck. “Rewards in academia—whether getting hired, promoted or published—come from output and productivity.”

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Social Engagement Opportunities Imagine the potential of organizing activities that bring together alumni and current students. Bridging Academic and Professional Worlds Similarly, alumni bridge the gap between academia and the professional world. Download our ebook, The Six Benefits of Centralized Applications , today.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As might be expected, the Ivy League Pluses were responsible for producing the majority of leaders across sectors such as law, media and academia. faculty, according to one 2022 study published in Nature.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2024

But look outside academia, and there is a world with a robust collection of data that informs the intervention process. Specifically, United States government agencies have all sorts of advice on how to ask questions to those who may be suspected of misdeeds: Consider advice from organizations such as the CIA and the FBI.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2024

But look outside academia, and there is a world with a robust collection of data that informs the intervention process. Specifically, United States government agencies have all sorts of advice on how to ask questions to those who may be suspected of misdeeds: Consider advice from organizations such as the CIA and the FBI.

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University Business

OCTOBER 28, 2024

UAT, for instance, collaborates with community organizations like Nysnc Community Development Corporation and Coding in Color to host workshops and summer camps for underserved students. Universities can play a crucial role in this by providing outreach programs that expose diverse students to promising careers in technology.

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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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University Business

MARCH 1, 2023

In its recent action plan , the organization makes clear its belief that peer mentoring, paid work-based learning, and partnership development are keys to strengthening student success. “We want to serve our community and make a difference, and inspire change in academia through research and get our students into the workforce.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reports of scholars being retired early or dismissed indicate that the Iranian government has ordered a cleansing of academia in the wake of protests that have gripped the country since September. based nonprofit organization. But many others remain behind bars, said Jason Brodsky, policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran, a U.S.-based

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

I found my home in Cal-Bridge and the Black Student Science Organization. Academia can be incredibly disconnected from the world around it, but my community keeps me grounded.” “A huge part of me actually pursuing astronomy as a career came from my community,” Ealy says. “I

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Today's Learner

MAY 23, 2024

To celebrate AAPI Heritage Month, we’re highlighting a just few of many Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders who have made an impact on the history of academia, public health, poetry and broader public education. Margaret “Mom” Chung Doctor Margaret Chung was first Chinese American woman to become a physician.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Southern has been working closely with advocacy organizations like the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, the United Negro College Fund, and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) to educate students and parents about the process as they look to access financial resources. Every day is a different day.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

In my book Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022), I dive deep into my personal experience and share those of other women from across academia with the goal of shedding light and providing language for us to have open conversations about this workplace phenomenon.

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ACRLog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Charlotte Higgins, Greek Myths: A New Retelling I read an interesting column in University Affairs that argues work in academia is often task-focused. The authors, Alexander Clark and Bailey Sousa, gives task-focused examples such as organizing meetings, responding to email, and teaching.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

The campaigners who brought that case, Academia for Coexistence, have sent an open letter to Spanish senators asking them to scrap an article in Spain’s long-debated higher education reform law, which has passed the lower house of Parliament and is pending approval by the upper chamber.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 7, 2023

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appointed the members, representing a diverse range of individuals and organizations in academia. The move comes ahead of the council’s first public meeting in the coming months.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation The best recent show about academia over the past few years is not The Chair , although it was pretty good. From the outside, a university appears to be a coherent organization, much like the image House Targaryen presents to the people of Westeros.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 13, 2023

Nerrise is the two-time president of the National Society of Black Engineers, an organization that she has been a part of since she was nine. I was 21 years old, and I got to run a multimillion-dollar organization,” Nerrise recalls. “I Academia, entrepreneurship, and policy are all options. It’s my calling.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

According to Caroline Leland, a member of the bargaining team for University of Michigan graduate student labor union Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO), striking was a last-ditch effort. Contact and collaboration of this kind occur amid other higher ed labor organizations as well. So academia is actually the extreme case of that.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In honor of this year’s Black History Month theme, “Black Resistance,” designated by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), INSIGHT examines the role that higher education has played in Black activism and how academia can support anti-racism by empowering students and faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. identify as Black, according to a 2021 report from the bipartisan research organization New American Economy and the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, a group of U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

What this looks like in practice is making education, skilling and career pathways accessible to employees at all levels of the organization, with a particular focus on the front-line workforce. We focus those partnerships on organizations that are skilled at and invested in serving working adult learners.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But nostalgia as an operating ethos for an organization or institution is another matter. So it’s possible that I’m overly sensitive to signs of nostalgic thinking, but I think I detected one in a recent tweet from Jonathan Haidt championing a new initiative from the organization he cofounded, Heterodox Academy.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In August 2020, the UK Government and Parliament rejected a petition that called for Confucius Institutes to be closed as they were considered the ‘Trojan propaganda organs’ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

Martha Coven, author of Writing on the Job: Best Practices for Communicating in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2022), spoke on this topic at the recent conference on general education, pedagogy and assessment organized by the American Association of Colleges and Universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

He never saw himself pursuing a career in academia until his high school biology teacher encouraged him to apply for a scholarship to Cornell University. “It By partnering with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources: Division of Wildlife and other organizations at OSU, Carter held a community-wide Bat Day on Halloween for all ages. “He

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She feels it’s important to share her stories with women — in and out of academia — and build community with other scholars. I was always very conscious of the small number of Black women in the profession, in academia, but then in the discipline of political science,” she continues.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If an OER appears on a university or organization website, then it is possible it passed some sort of approval process. In the summer of 2022, an organic chemistry textbook that used to cost around $100 became available as an OER. Who the publisher is and where the OERs are published need to be taken into consideration.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. In your view, how will this decision affect academia in the long term? who exchange ideas and best practices to implement equitable and inclusive strategies on their campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Nerrise is the two-time president of the National Society of Black Engineers, an organization that she has been a part of since she was nine. I was 21 years old, and I got to run a multimillion-dollar organization,” Nerrise recalls. “I Academia, entrepreneurship, and policy are all options. It’s my calling.”

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