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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supporters of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) welcomed Howard University's announcement late last week of Dr. Ibram X. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. Kendi's appointment Dr. Crystal A.

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Illuminating Asian American Narratives in Literature and Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sharon Tran, an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has established herself as a rising voice in Asian American literary studies. Trans journey to academia was not predetermined. Empire, which will be published by University of Minnesota Press in Spring 2026.

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Open Access: It’s Not Just a Nice Thing to Do

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Editor’s Note: Please join us in welcoming Brianna Calomino, Digital Projects Librarian at the University of Calgary, as a new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger for the 2024-2025 year here at ACRLog. It takes down the ivory towers of academia, bringing publicly funded research back to the public. motto in academia.

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Understanding Academic Exile After the 2024 Election

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s a label that marks us as “unwelcome” and our scholarship as “controversial.” And while it’s incredibly unsettling, I believe there’s a powerful irony here – when we’re pressured and marginalized, our scholarship often grows stronger and more urgent. Thinking back to the German scholars who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Reconsidering research impact

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research impact metrics), as does the field of academic librarianship and academia itself, if were honest. On one hand, there is something undeniably fascinating about how statistical formulas can help us understand scholarship as conversation at a macro-level.

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The Silent Crisis: Bullying Among Nurse Educators in Higher Education

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These hostile work environments have profound consequences, leading many talented educators to leave academia entirely or return to clinical practice. The Scope of Bullying in Nursing Academia Bullying in higher education is a widespread and systemic issue.

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A Pioneer for Change - Dr. Brittany Williams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. in Sociology of Education with a policy concentration; Teachers College Columbia University; and Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Hampshire College; M.A.