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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Banks to serve as president.

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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

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Scholars have noted: the frequent absence of theory and short-term focus of such research ; the proximity of researchers to policy-makers which, it is argued, can make critical distance hard to achieve ; and the fragmentation of the field. When we look at the extant literature, there seems to be cause for concern.

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Freedom of speech and students’ unions

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by Phil Pilkington In March 2023 Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), wrote a review of Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism by Alison Scott-Baumann and Simon Perfect (both SOAS), covering freedom of speech, populism (of the left and right), ‘no platforming’, and students.