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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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What Tyler Cowen Gets Wrong About What’s Wrong with Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. Third, Cowen worries that the best and brightest choose any career path as long as it is not academia.

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Burnout and Work-Work Balance

Inside Higher Ed

In my book Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022), I dive deep into my personal experience and share those of other women from across academia with the goal of shedding light and providing language for us to have open conversations about this workplace phenomenon.

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Staying Relevant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Natalia Rodriguez Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Associate Director of Population Health and Health Equity, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Age: 35 Education: B.S., human-centered design of health technologies; and 3.)

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Which Side Are You On?

Inside Higher Ed

Perhaps most striking is the formation of 16 graduate student unions and a dozen for postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers between 2013 and 2019—a trend that has persisted since the pandemic struck. Academia is a calling. programs, especially in the humanities, are likely to shrink, irrespective of unionization.

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Mobilities and the ‘international academic’ in higher education

SRHE

She debated how discursive constructions of mobility may influence who can access academia/higher education, who can gain recognition, and who can establish a feeling of belonging. Lene Møller Madsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen.

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Generative AI and the Near Future of Work: An EdTech Example

eLiterate

The repetitive work they are doing now would be replaced by the software over time, freeing up the human brains for other things that human brains are particularly good at. The IT department has legal obligations, not to mention user expectations, that a well-tested standard helps alleviate (though not eliminate).