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HBCU Leaders Unite to Address Threats to Black Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The summit was framed by the Southern Education Foundation's " Miles to Go" report, which documents persistent opportunity gaps facing Black students nationwide. You have to be equally outraged by the racism that poisons campus culture and the racism that shows up in how we exclude Black stories, scholarship, and success from the academy."

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The Growing Role of Artificial Intelligence in College Admissions

Insight Into Diversity

One common use for AI is automating an applicant’s preliminary screening using the data from documents like transcripts and SAT or ACT scores.

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West Virginia U proposal outlines process for firing faculty

Inside Higher Ed

The draft document urges credit for faculty members supporting the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion mission, or who are otherwise doing community-engaged or interdisciplinary work; this presumably addresses long-standing concerns across academe that such efforts go unrecognized in traditional faculty reward structures.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Teik Lim “My family did not have much money, but with the help of a generous undergraduate scholarship from Michigan Tech, I was able to support myself through college and become the first member of my family to earn a college degree,” said Lim. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.”

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3 Questions for a Retired Academic Librarian

Inside Higher Ed

A: The academic library is, at its core, about making scholarship available to students and faculty and preserving it for future generations. The transition of scholarship from print to the digital network is fundamental and it will change many things in the academy beyond libraries. It is a revolution and it is only the beginning.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world. These data should document the progress—and lack thereof—in creating a more diverse faculty. Yet, at most U.S.

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