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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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The Luddite Chronicles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robots 

Faculty Focus

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Students bent over blue books with only the light of their ideas to guide their pens.

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The Luddite Chronicles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robots 

Faculty Focus

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Students bent over blue books with only the light of their ideas to guide their pens.

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Grandmothering While Black

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her pursuit for knowledge led her to a career in academia where she has devoted her life to centering the experiences of Black women. “All those kinds of things shaped me in becoming a sociologist,” Pittman said in an interview with Diverse.

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The Program Went On As Planned

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. The pain of their deaths is not unlike the experiences Black women in academia have long endured. Epps, 72, was taken to Temple University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Dr. Crystal A.

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Intrigued by Bats

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He read every book he could on the species. He never saw himself pursuing a career in academia until his high school biology teacher encouraged him to apply for a scholarship to Cornell University. Reciprocity is the basis of human success, cooperation in the form of ‘I help you, you help me,’” said Carter.

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

Inside Higher Ed

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. Third, Cowen worries that the best and brightest choose any career path as long as it is not academia.