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Scholars Respond to the Death of a University Administrator

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many Black women also suffer intersectional discrimination out in the world, which can lead to trauma, mental health challenges, and “racial battle fatigue,” even before they step foot into academia.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

People outside of academia may be better positioned to evaluate the impact of candidate’s scholarship. · Carefully assess why disconnects occur between external and internal evaluators. Universities often have policies of “re-doing” the tenure meeting in the event of a procedural violation.

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Which Side Are You On?

Inside Higher Ed

The Yale petition for an election follows successful graduate student unionization votes at Harvard, Brown University, Columbia, MIT and NYU. Academia is a calling. Dr. Christakis touched off the Twitter exchange with this remark: “Graduate students are primarily students and trainees, not ordinary workers.

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Thoughts on Stanford's academic freedom conference (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

While there will always be clashes and disputes in academia, perhaps we could model how to deal with each dispute kindly, individually and with good will, in the name of academic freedom, even in the face of constitutionally protected free expression of outrage or unprotected violent speech. The support of teammates mitigated the trauma.

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Leave Me Alone

HESA

In that case, a collegial governance problem means a breakdown in the way different actors in the university work together. That’s bad.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. Columbia University launched the Inclusive Faculty Pathways initiative to support students in pursuit of an academic career. Campus-wide Strategic Planning for DEI — Kent State University. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist.” .

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Embracing a New Model for Higher Education Governance Part 2: The Updated Board Duties

The Change Leader, Inc.

Those responsibilities do not stop with the university administration. The Board’s Standard Fiduciary Responsibilities Even as the role of the board evolves, it’s important to reiterate that higher education institutions are legal entities and, with that, have legal responsibilities.

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