The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

Last year saw 15 strikes, the highest number of strikes in academia in at least 20 years, and the surge has continued into 2023 Thousands of workers at universities have gone on strike in 2023 amid new union contract negotiations in demand of pay increases that align with the effect high inflation rates have had on the cost of living.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 8, 2024

The 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings have been released, and analysis reveals that, for the first time, 50 of the top 200 institutions are led by women. This number reflects a progressive increase of women-led institutions from 48 last year and 43 in 2022.

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University Business

MARCH 6, 2024

While there has been little movement to address this gap, a new report from Times Higher Education (THE) suggests that colleges and universities are moving steadily—if slowly—in the right direction. Their exit from the world of elite academia means that the U.S. However, the number of women U.S.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In this blog, my aim is to bring together a few exemplars of experiences by people of colour within academia. Emotional labour has several meanings, and inevitably some are context dependent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) will host its 8th annual early-career faculty professional development program, ELEVATE (Enriching Learning, Enhancing Visibility & Training Educators), this week. I arrived at ELEVATE wondering if the tenure track was right for me.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 6, 2024

The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) released a new report showing that despite recent increases in the number of tenure-track women and faculty of color, barriers to advancement in academia persist for those with one or more marginalized identity.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

" The (mostly) accepted consensus within academia is that a terminal degree is almost always table stakes for most academic leadership roles. And even today, I remain skeptical and suspicious of those from outside of academia (and who do not hold a doctorate) who are recruited to university presidencies and other leadership roles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Malaklou hosts events like "Evening with an Activist" at the bell hooks center, where students can learn tangible ways to make a difference outside of academia. She said this lesson is deliberate and acknowledges academia and graduate school can be “violent, especially for scholars of color, women, and queer folks of color.”

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

If interviews with students tell us anything, it’s that an ever-growing number of students are turning to AI as a first resort for almost everything following OpenAI’s public release of ChatGPT in November 2022. All of this points to an “AI inevitability” in academia in terms of students assuming its fair use.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

However, despite this general downward trend, workers in higher education seem to be fighting harder to organize and make demands of their employers. From] January 2022 to June 2023, we showed that there has been a vast acceleration of unionization by student workers, in particular, graduate assistants but also undergraduate student workers."

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. Kill the Chinese ’ is a piece of racist graffiti found on a flagpole outside the University of Glasgow in September 2022. A better China strategy must recognise the diversity within Chinese communities.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 16, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. The good news, however, is that ethnic diversity has been gradually increasing in UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Feeling out of place in academia can really knock someone’s confidence and sense of aspiration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. “I That led Byrne to pursue her doctorate at Howard University.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. These skills are worrisome for some educators due to the informal nature of online social spaces.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

To ensure music students gain a more inclusive education, universities are beginning to expand their areas of study. The focus is on eliminating systemic racism in music education by promoting research, development, and dissemination of Black music, including gospel, jazz, and hip-hop. Walton Foundation.

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University Business

MAY 23, 2023

While Fall enrollment among men and women has mostly declined between 2017 and 2022, women have weathered the storm far better across non-profit and for-profit institutions. The rate at which men are graduating from 4-year institutions is 6% less than that of women, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Through her 2022 poetry book, Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood , Hill explores a theme that has proven to be central for her: becoming. And having grown up in the education-oriented African Methodist Episcopal Church, learning and the Bible played prominent roles in her own ‘becoming’ as a writer. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

These are some of the schools embroiled in a wave of recent strikes in higher education in the U.S., Carey is president of ACT-UAW Local 7902, a union representing more than 4,000 part-time and adjuncts, student educators, and healthcare workers at New York University and The New School. University of Michigan. Temple University.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

The biggest topic in higher education right now, at least in my opinion, is artificial intelligence. There are various stories in higher education news about what impact AI will have on students, instructors, and the education field at large. I’ve released assignments from this course under a CC-BY SA 4.0,

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Published in August of 2022. ” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. Will reading and discussing After the Ivory Tower Falls provide us within higher education with any roadmap or actionable set of ideas for how we might change our institutions for the better?

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SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

The mental health of students has long been a topic of interest with decades of primary research, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, alongside cross cultural comparisons, highlighting the poor mental health of University Students in comparison to the general public ( Brown, 2018 ; Campbell et al, 2022 ; Macaskill, 2013 ).

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. These skills are worrisome for some educators due to the informal nature of online social spaces.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In June 2022, HEPI and Taylor & Francis hosted a successful dinner discussion around open access and evidence-based based policymaking which produced a co-authored Policy Note , and webinar. The UN’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative sees a clear link between research and scholarship and building a workforce for the future.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 7, 2023

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced the appointment of 20 new members to the Homeland Security Academic Partnership Council (HSAPC), a board dedicated to school safety and security which was reinstated by the department in 2022. The move comes ahead of the council’s first public meeting in the coming months.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

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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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Implications for Ethics Education. Both academia and security experts add that schools must emphasize law and ethics so students "don't cross the line" and misuse their hacking abilities. A wide range of educational opportunities exist for individuals interested in pursuing information security.

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SRHE

JANUARY 26, 2024

In particular, understanding access, participation and inclusion for those who align with the different protected characteristics (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) has been of interest to academic research, given various political movements to widen access to higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Shana Stoddard Having first come to Rhodes as a William Randolph Hearst Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in 2015, Stoddard has cemented a role for herself at the school over time, attaining the position of associate professor of chemistry in 2022. “I I knew that I wanted an undergraduate research lab,” Stoddard said. She holds a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6%

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting Here, there and everywhere, I have been hard on the spate of “education disrupted” books that cropped up during the early to middle part of the previous decade. The Future of Public Higher Education , education is properly viewed as “infrastructure,” rather than merely a consumer good.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Dr. Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years. Former University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) Chancellor Dr. Rebecca Blank died Feb. Department of Commerce. "Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But a November 2022 article in U.S. Schools of nursing are working to not only educate future nurses, but also bring more diversity to the profession. “Those barriers lead to a lack of access to quality education for our minority students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.”

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

However, these experts believe higher education is at an inflection point to evolve past its focus on academia and prioritize equipping its students with career skills and that the best way to get there is by partnering with relevant businesses and employers.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Thu, 06/09/2022 - 06:00. Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. So I would say that’s not for everyone, although I think it transcends academia. A Thousand Flowers Blooming. A Conversation With M. Weekly Wisdom.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2024

Despite the light-hearted nature of the strip, it serves well as a caricature of education that addresses a real issue – the imagination, quite possibly humankind’s strongest tool, is often limited by mundane teaching practices that mostly measure a student’s ability to memorize. Neglect of Creativity in Education: A Moral Issue.”

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The PIE News

MAY 18, 2023

We recognise concerns about overseas interference in our higher education sector, including through Confucius Institutes, and regularly assess the risks facing academia,” the spokesperson said.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

Martha Coven, author of Writing on the Job: Best Practices for Communicating in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2022), spoke on this topic at the recent conference on general education, pedagogy and assessment organized by the American Association of Colleges and Universities.

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