Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

Find your people, learn how to support them, and let them support you when you need it too.” Human interaction is at the center of Dr. Melva Treviño Peña’s work. Treviño Peña, an assistant professor in the department, describes herself as a human geographer, ethnographer, and social scientist.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Unlike traditional academic organizations that can be exclusive or rigid in their scope, BWSA is intentionally inclusive, embracing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to the field of Black Womens Studies. Jessica Samuel, BWSA Conference Chair and the founder & CEO of Radical Education & Advocacy League, LLC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

I adore this human, who started life at barely 4 lbs and has emerged into a thoughtful, sensitive man with a love for soccer and his long-term girlfriend. Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab We started our process about a year ago by talking about what his college will cost, since I’ve extensively documented the consequences of paying too much.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2024

I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. Banks’ An Introduction to Multicultural Education. They are inseparable.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“That feeling [of a unifying goal] is going to go away if we don’t document it, develop some support to enhance it and say, ‘Don’t you want that back?’” But those distractions also humanized instructors, according to the study. ” Inclusive, Collaborative Teaching and Course Design.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Image: Humans write syllabi, which means they make subjective choices about words, tone and content. Even when students read these documents, their past experiences may influence how they make sense of them. Some may also feel at risk of confirming negative stereotypes associated with their identities, known as stereotype threat.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 13, 2025

Historical examples of exploitation and abuse in medical centers are well-documented in Washington's work, and contemporary lawsuits and investigations reveal that these systemic problems still persist. Poor patients, especially those from marginalized racial backgrounds, are often viewed as expendable research subjects.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 29, 2025

Bullying in nursing is a well-documented issue, but less attention has been given to the experiences of nurse educators who face hostility within academic institutions. Recognizing and Reporting Bullying Bullying in academia can be subtle, making it difficult to document and report. References Clark, C. Olender, L.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

This study, for us, was about seeking to understand the scale of the gender and race issues we face as a field and to document the disparities we see as baseline data to help track our progress towards more equitable work environments over time.” Susan Lyons, executive director of WIM and one of the report's authors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. “We Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three. Dr. Robin L.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

By learning the patterns, language, structures, and relationships between words, ChatGPT “remembers” the content in a manner that permits it to engage in human-like conversations, answer questions, create content, or write essays. ” (Personal communication with ChatGPT 4.0 on December 28, 2023.) Rather Labs Careers’.

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Committee members often arrive unprepared. Dr. Donna Y.

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You can’t answer these questions confidently without the help of actual humans who would be using the product. And it is often completely ignorant about anything that isn’t well-documented on the internet. A human educator has to understand all these topics to write good lesson plans. But which ones?

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This November, NCAA Division 1 (D1) colleges and universities are required to submit documentation, signed by presidents, chancellors, and other high-ranking officials, attesting that they have completed a review of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies and programming within their athletics departments.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As implied by the title of the 359-page document—“Advancing Antiracism, Diversity and Equity Inclusion [DEI] in STEMM Organizations: Beyond Broadening Participation”—the National Academies aren’t just focusing on numerically increasing minority representation in STEMM. “Compared to the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

That animals avoid environments which seem unhealthy due to predators or poor conditions is a well-documented ecological phenomenon. Humans are no different. We, too, instinctively avoid environments that look unhealthy or unwelcoming.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As Pauline Lipman powerfully states in the book referenced above regarding school segregation: “It breaks a web of human connections in which the social and cultural practices of daily life are rooted, race and class identities are formed, and community is constituted.” Another dynamic is a new form of segregation emerging as the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

By learning the patterns, language, structures, and relationships between words, ChatGPT “remembers” the content in a manner that permits it to engage in human-like conversations, answer questions, create content, or write essays. ” (Personal communication with ChatGPT 4.0 on December 28, 2023.) Rather Labs Careers’.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Particularly interesting is the notable increase in social media interaction among everyone, including undergraduate students, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as documented in a March 2021 Vox article. Social media reflects the spectrum of human emotion and can be a powerful educational tool. Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 5.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Yvette Alex-Assensoh, PhD, JD Yvette Alex-Assensoh, PhD, JD, is professor of political science, adjunct professor of law, and vice president for equity and inclusion at the University of Oregon. This leaves us with, sadly, an Academy and society bereft of the knowledge and creative activity that Black faculty and staff offer.

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PeopleAdmin

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Tips and Best Practices for Higher Ed HR Compliance Compliance is a key and complicated part of the role of human resources teams, and this is especially true in higher education. That’s why ensuring compliance is such an important part of the role of higher education human resources teams.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

According to SUNY documents, for a class to meet the new requirement, it must not only “describe the historical and contemporary societal factors that shape the development of individual and group identity involving race, class and gender. After all, isn’t much of human history about struggles over power, resources and dominance?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Available online as a free prototype, this sophisticated new chat bot can write stories, compose music, answer test questions, simulate human conversation, produce computer code and play simple games. It will also prompt them to think about the key points they need to flesh out.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The value of play in the learning process and in the classroom has been well-studied and documented in early childhood education, but for a variety of reasons, once students reach higher grades, we see less and less playfulness. And while my educational home is in the humanities, this pedagogical approach is applicable across all disciplines.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As patents represent research being applied to real-world solutions, we could truly be missing out on the full human potential to tackle some of the world’s biggest problems, especially given women’s strong performance in disciplines that relate to the UN SDGs.

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

My LLM search on eliminating AI bias wasn’t harmful because a human being—I, the writer—vetted the results, recognizing nuggets of potential value to follow up on while disregarding the irrelevant (actually, the ChatGPT results were pretty good). That same sort of human vetting must happen with any university AI system.

Humanities 52

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2023

These are two ends of a spectrum with varying degrees of understanding about human agency and a range of cultural beliefs about innovation in between. Pedagogy that encourages the adoption of the biography of an idea is student-centered; contextual; participatory; interdisciplinary; inclusive, dialectical, and visual.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The value of play in the learning process and in the classroom has been well-studied and documented in early childhood education, but for a variety of reasons, once students reach higher grades, we see less and less playfulness. And while my educational home is in the humanities, this pedagogical approach is applicable across all disciplines.

Learning Experience 100

Learning Experience Higher Education Education Humanities 100

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2023

These are two ends of a spectrum with varying degrees of understanding about human agency and a range of cultural beliefs about innovation in between. Pedagogy that encourages the adoption of the biography of an idea is student-centered; contextual; participatory; interdisciplinary; inclusive, dialectical, and visual.

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Faculty Technology Inclusivity Advocate 97

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

” Math instruction “has much to correct [because] the subject and community of mathematics has a history of exclusion and filtering, rather than inclusion and welcoming.” That the document’s authors were biased toward data science while downplaying other areas of math.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Particularly interesting is the notable increase in social media interaction among everyone, including undergraduate students, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as documented in a March 2021 Vox article. Social media reflects the spectrum of human emotion and can be a powerful educational tool. Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 5.

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One of Carleton College’s five pledges in its Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity plan is to increase representation of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and other underrepresented groups in staff roles—a commitment their Chief Technology Officer Janet Scannell has taken concrete steps to deliver. It also helps humanize the role. Lydia Dishman.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

1999), the importance of these dimensions in creating an effective learning environment has been well-documented. Dr. Demian Hommel, PhD, teaches introductory and upper-division human geography courses in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University.

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ACPA

JANUARY 13, 2023

For example, the ACPA/NASPA Competencies document aims to “set out the scope and content of professional competencies required of student affairs educators in order for them to succeed within the current higher educational environment as well as projected future environments” (2015, p. What future can we imagine together?

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If you’re on a human resources team at a college or university thinking about hiring and retention, you should be asking: what is onboarding, and how is it different in the world of higher education? Whether you are onboarding employees in person or remotely, it’s important to have a consistent, engaging, and inclusive process.

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