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Representation Matters: Reflections on Academia’s ‘Leaky Pipeline’

HEPI

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Dr Blessing Marandure, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Fair Outcomes Champion on the Decolonising DMU Project at De Montfort University. per cent over the same period.

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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. Dr. Sol Gittleman Gittleman, who is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Emeritus, has emerged as one of the nation’s most important interpreters of the history of higher education.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his Ph.D. Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future.

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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

The Change Leader, Inc.

For universities that don’t have the cushion of the Ivy League list, the stark reality of declining enrollment and soaring costs looms large. Universities are discovering that austerity measures alone can’t bridge the gap between dwindling revenues and rising expenses. covers the global shift in Higher Education.

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Funding source shouldn't affect postdoc benefits (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Reports of this issue go back decades: see, for example, this 2002 article in Science , which asked, “What will it take to create a single employment class (status) for all postdocs, regardless of funding source?” Not a New Problem. One of the underlying policies preventing benefit equity is the NIH Grants Policy sec.11.3.8

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A Brief History: Black Americans in Higher Education

Today's Learner

1 Most historical Black colleges and universities started in the 1860s and served first as elementary then secondary schools providing the newly freed slaves with a normal education. In 1854 , the American Missionary Association founded the first historical Black college and university which is currently called Lincoln University.

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A Brief History: Black Americans in Higher Education

Today's Learner

1 Most historical Black colleges and universities started in the 1860s and served first as elementary then secondary schools providing the newly freed slaves with a normal education. In 1854 , the American Missionary Association founded the first historical Black college and university which is currently called Lincoln University.

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