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Black and Hispanic Students Far Less Likely to Receive Race-Matched Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From a sample of over 560,000 first year, first time community college students and over 32,000 instructors in Texas between 2013 and 2020, researchers found that 77% of white students experienced a racial match. That means making sure that people get tenure and stay in academia.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

As the year progressed we were thinking about the future (No 10 Strengths, weaknesses and the future of research into higher education ) and asking ourselves at the 2012 Conference What is higher education for? ’ (No 11). And better policy, leadership and management. Then academia could be a beautiful game.

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There is no such thing as a safe return to student number controls – because the Treasury is too powerful

HEPI

There were a lot of warm words expressed about both HEPI and Wonkhe at last week’s Society for Research into Higher Education ( SRHE ) event on bridging academia and policymaking. It was clear from the various senior speakers present that both organisations have filled a gap in providing accessible policy-focused information.