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Racial and Gender Inequities Found in Field of Educational Measurement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Racial and gender inequities still plague the field of educational measurement, from professional rank to salary, across academia, industry, and leadership roles. Rodriguez said he hopes to learn more about these written responses, particularly as they relate to leadership positions both in academia and the industry.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

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We put all students in the same learning environment and expect that one learning environment will lead to the same outcome for all students. I wonder sometimes if the work we see students submit that maybe isn’t as awesome as we’d like, if it’s because of the way we’ve set up the learning environment.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Hall says that her community of cluster-mates and others has been “the biggest thing that helped to sustain her” as she adjusted to her new role and environs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

We put all students in the same learning environment and expect that one learning environment will lead to the same outcome for all students. I wonder sometimes if the work we see students submit that maybe isn’t as awesome as we’d like, if it’s because of the way we’ve set up the learning environment.

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Clusterluck: A Spark of Black Joy in the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s a perfect rejoinder to the grim tone of just seconds earlier and an eloquent statement of the film’s purpose: to offer an alternative to the negativity that can pervade discussion of the Black experience in academia and to reflect the beauty that can grow when faculty of color are supported and support each other. It’s spectacular.”

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Will Elon Musk’s New University be the SpaceX or the Twitter of Higher Ed?

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Innovator in Chief or Dean of Disarray? Higher education, in contrast, is a service-oriented field that relies heavily on human interaction and unique cultural norms to create transformative experiences for students. The skills and strategies that work in manufacturing and tech may not translate seamlessly into academia.

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Scholars Respond to the Death of a University Administrator

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many Black women also suffer intersectional discrimination out in the world, which can lead to trauma, mental health challenges, and “racial battle fatigue,” even before they step foot into academia. Rather, schools can still do better to support their people and create more welcoming and equitable environments," he added.