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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After three decades in academia, Dr. Janet R. As a professor, she takes a social movements approach to education. She co-wrote the book Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance with Dr. Ann Pellegrini, a professor of performance studies and social and cultural analysis at New York University.

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Scholars Discuss Advantages and Pitfalls of Social Media in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Social media, namely Twitter, can provide scholars a platform on which they can engage with various individuals within and outside of academia, potentially those who otherwise would not have access to the scholars’ work, said panelist Dr. Laila McCloud, an assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling at Grand Valley State University.

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New Book Focuses on Anti-Asian Racism, Stereotypes, and Catholic Teachings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I would just stand there for hours, reading one book after another in Asian American studies. For the first time, I read somebody talking about me, and most of the books do not talk about me. Cheah proceeded to make Asian American studies part of his career, primarily focusing his scholarship on race and religion.

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AHA: See textbooks, op-eds, gaming as historical scholarship

Inside Higher Ed

But he has also had young colleagues dissuaded from certain work “by the fear that they won’t finish that book.” Obviously, a lot of what you see out there I would not describe as scholarship, but it clearly has become possible to do scholarship in that way.”

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

SRHE

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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Toward a more inclusive peer-review process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. But I was impressed by how much you do in publishing to build up a book.”

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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,