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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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The Program Went On As Planned

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. The pain of their deaths is not unlike the experiences Black women in academia have long endured. Epps, 72, was taken to Temple University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Dr. Crystal A.

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Culturally-Sustaining K-12 Education: Who’s Teaching the Teachers?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Consider this: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 updated definition of burnout includes three dimensions: “Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Likewise, we have witnessed frustration by teachers for the same reasons. Dr. Donna Y.

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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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A Commitment to Help Others

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In academia, she taught as an instructor in the Emory University Center for Human Health and assistant professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine, where she designed the Master of Public Health Global Health Track. Armstrong-Mensah holds a Ph.D. in international affairs and development from Clark Atlanta University, and an M.A.

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Inclusive research agendas: what’s excluded?

SRHE

I addressed the ways in which administrative staff and professional services staff are included within academic research, as a representation of their human capital, roles and responsibilities, the ‘minions of management’ that Dopson & McNay discuss leads to an absence of voice and authority.