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How to Break the Promotion Glass Ceiling for Teaching and Scholarship Academics

HEPI

Promotion for academics, especially those on teaching and scholarship (T&S) pathways, is fraught with challenges. Inconsistencies in promotion criteria across departments and supervisors create confusion and unfairness fostering an environment of inequality and resentment. Favouritism is another significant issue.

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A Scholarship of the Underserved to Inspire Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

McMickens’s scholarship centers on historically marginalized and underserved populations that suffer from inequities, particularly in higher education. The research is rich and ever-manifesting on college campuses for McMickens, an associate professor of higher education and the director of the M.S.Ed.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“North Star Promise provides free college tuition to help make education after high school possible for more Minnesota students and families,” is written on the Minnesota Office of Higher Education website. Francis-Begay, governing council chair for the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education.

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Single Parents Breaking Barriers Through Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Grace Alexis Stephens Generations College boasts a 120-year rich legacy of providing accessible and high-quality education to campus-based and online students from diverse backgrounds across 40 states. Generations College is dedicated to empowering single parents and breaking barriers through education.

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College Fund Offers American Indian Law School Scholarship to Attend Harvard Law

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Indian College Fund has announced its third American Indian Law School Scholarship for a student entering Harvard Law School in the fall of 2024. Samantha Maltais, an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, is the current scholarship recipient.

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University of Toronto’s environment school cuts financial ties to fossil fuels

The Guardian - Higher Education

Princeton University, the only other North American school to do so, rolled back its commitment recently The University of Toronto ’s environment school has announced it will financially dissociate from fossil fuel companies, in a landmark win for climate activists.

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Juneteenth, Higher Education, and Advancing Educational Equity

WCET Frontiers

In line with that vision, WCET and Every Learner Everywhere present the following article on recognizing Juneteenth and offer ideas on how to integrate this important day into higher education settings. This acknowledgment is crucial for fostering understanding, healing, and progress.

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