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Conference Prepares Grad Students for Careers in Academia

Insight Into Diversity

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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How to Manage Your Online Presence in Academia

The Academic Designer

Get started with the process of managing your online presence in academia with these 3 steps.

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Black undocumented students] are invisibilized.

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College writing assignments to prepare students for success at work

Inside Higher Ed

That’s why professors should consider designing writing assignments that align with what students will face in the workplace. In the workplace, collaborative writing is valued and generally expected, while in classes students are trained to write independently. That main point? This is another potential assignment add-on.

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The importance of international students to the excellence of UK HE

The PIE News

How do we measure the importance of international students to higher education? The best ones know that everything they do is at the service of education, from the level of the changed minds and lives of students to the research which broadens and deepens knowledge and sometimes changes our world. And so it is with calculating value.

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With ChatGPT, we must teach students to be editors (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

It didn’t help that the editor who fired me was only slightly older than most of my students. As my side gig ground on, my editor kept demanding that I churn out articles in about 20 minutes. I was being paid $25 an hour to write three short articles on topics related to car care and travel.

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Supporting Neurodivergent College Students with Dr. Liz Norell

Continuous Learning Institute

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Learn how to support neurodivergent college students. The focus of the episode is her article, Recap: What Instructors Need to Know When Working with Neurodivergent Students (Scroll down to access the transcript.) It's giving them a fair shot. That is definitely not it." Are the lights really bright?

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