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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. Over the past two decades, respect for feminist theory and scholarship and queer theory and scholarship has evolved.

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Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Dies at 67

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Becky inspired faculty, staff and administrators with an approach to problem-solving that combined vision, creativity and pragmatism." Bush administration; member of the council during the Bill Clinton administration; and deputy secretary and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce. "Dr.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

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Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. If a faculty member is assigned more teaching and/or more service, and has less time available for scholarship, they should be evaluated accordingly. The criteria should be read aloud, prior to evaluating that dimension.

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Pride in the Halls

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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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Degrees and Certifications Help Inform the Future of DEI Leadership

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University of Kentucky At UK’s College of Education, the PhD in studies in higher education with a specialization in DEI serves as an important tool in training future generations of DEI leaders in academia. Through the program’s partnership with INSIGHT, students can receive scholarship funding.

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

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Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio.

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Exploring British Muslim transitions to PGT studies

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An intersectionality of disadvantage Transitions centres the testimonies of British Muslims, deploying a Critical Race Theory (CRT) methodology and qualitative analysis to examine the lived experiences of candidates for the Aziz Foundation’s flagship Masters Scholarship programme. Amira Samatar, MA Ed.,