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Despite Increased Visibility, Asian Americans Continue to Face Barriers in Academia

Insight Into Diversity

But I would say those are the exceptions, not the rules,” says Nicholas Hartlep, PhD, the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education at Berea College, whose research focuses on race and equity — particularly concerning the experiences of Asian Americans — in academia. This article was published in our January/February 2024 issue.

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Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do?

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Unfortunately for the world of academia, these are not isolated incidents. The number of scientific papers retracted due to fraudulent peer review and research misconduct has eclipsed 10,000 for the first time in 2023, according to Nature , a British scientific journal. The post Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril.

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Why Reading ‘Unscripted’ Will Make You Happy You Chose Academia

Inside Higher Ed

Why Reading ‘Unscripted’ Will Make You Happy You Chose Academia Featured Image at Top of Article Redstone Cover.jpg joshua.m.kim@d… Wed, 04/26/2023 - 12:01 AM

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Conference Prepares Grad Students for Careers in Academia

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More than 100 graduate students of color from 18 institutions gathered at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in February for the eighth annual Preparing Future Faculty of Color Conference , which strives to demystify having a career in academia. This article was published in our April 2023 issue.

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SRHE News on Publishing: reports from April 2023

SRHE

To illustrate the contents, here is part of the April 2023 issue on recent developments in Publishing. Focusing on 98 MDPI journals with an impact factor, there were 55,985 special issues with a closing date in 2023, as of 23 February, Dr Crosetto told Times Higher Education. or rob.gresham@srhe.ac.uk.

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WCET’s Favorite Read, Watch, and Listens – Summer 2023

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These suggestions are a mix of personal and professional development podcasts, books, articles, and shows. – Russ Poulin, WCET Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color by Lorgia García Peña Academia is often called out for its many issues around race. Makes me mad and is funny.

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Schools of Music Move Toward More Inclusive Studies

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Two prominent efforts to diversify music in academia are the new University of Arkansas’ (UA) Arkansas Center for Black Music and the creation of the George Walker Center for Equity and Inclusion in Music at the University of Rochester’s (UR) Eastman School of Music (Eastman). This article was published in our June 2023 issue.