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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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What Tyler Cowen Gets Wrong About What’s Wrong with Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation In a recent Bloomberg column, Tyler Cowen offers his diagnosis of what ails higher education. ” What does Cowen worry about when he worries about higher ed? The second troubling higher ed trend that Cowen mentions is the “ ongoing mental health crisis among America’s youth.”

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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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Burnout and Work-Work Balance

Inside Higher Ed

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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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

She is the author of two important books on the history of immigration and childhood, The Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962 and Suffer the Little Children , a history of U.S. None were pedagogues; they were mentors, who treated me as if I had ideas worth considering.

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Supporting Neurodivergent College Students with Dr. Liz Norell

Continuous Learning Institute

Human bodies were not meant to sit still for 90 minutes or 75 minutes or even 50 minutes. I think if we all just centered the humanity and gave people the benefit of the doubt in our educational settings, no one would ever need any accommodations because we would already have the structures in place to create a human education system."

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions (Assemblages Symposium)

SRHE

by Karen Gravett and Tim Fawns SRHE’s ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposium series, delivered with Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson, aims to foster continuous dialogue around learning spaces. We can more clearly where we can act on entangled relations.