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Report: Faculty of Color in Psychology Face Structural Hurdles in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

population – according to 2020 U.S. According to the report, faculty of color can be subject to several “taxes” in academia. Regarding scholarship, research conducted by faculty of color is often evaluated with bias,” the report noted. The report provides recommendations to address them. Census data – only 24.6%

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Exploring British Muslim transitions to PGT studies

SRHE

We consider this a timely intervention, in the context of a rapidly changing student demography, indicated in the popular usage of such terms as ‘hyper-diversification’ (Atherton and Mazhari, 2020) within HE policy discourse, and corroborated in recent projections by the professional membership body, Advance HE.

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Working-Class and working in higher education: possibilities and pedagogies

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It is now accepted that the ‘leaky pipeline’ of academia, whereby ‘non-traditional’ ( eg working-class, BAME) participants remain absent from professorial and higher managerial positions within UKHE is adversely affecting the diversity of scholarship and leadership.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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Since the racial reckoning of 2020, sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minnesota police officer, many institutions have announced cluster hires of either minoritized faculty or professors who study issues like race and justice. And an increasingly popular one. Louis International Film Festival in November.

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“Narrow” awareness of partnership risks

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Quimbre agreed that more collaboration between government and academia would be beneficial to managing risk. Heathershaw said that research on Russell Group institutions in 2020 found that out of the 17 that responded to questions, only seven had independent GIS committees and published criteria for assessing gifts and donations.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

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After three decades in academia, Dr. Janet R. When she ended her 15 years as director of BCRW in 2015, the college devoted a day-long colloquium to celebrate her contributions to feminist scholarship and research. The last piece that Crosby wrote, published in December 2020, was something they wrote together. “I

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

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By January 2019 we had resorted to more football analogies (No 35 Academia: the beautiful game? ): … m ore research is needed. Then academia could be a beautiful game. Dealing with the consequences of the 2020 A-levels shambles ? But the Secretary of State keeps digging, even after the great A-level disaster of 2020.