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Exploring British Muslim transitions to PGT studies

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It will need to build in more responsiveness to the forms of disadvantage that holds back intersectional communities – such as British Muslims – from participation at the postgraduate level. It has ramifications beyond the low number of this demographic who progress all the way into academia as researchers and members of the professoriate.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Her goal is to provide an elite education without elitist practices that exclude communities of color and low-income people. The Macaulay Bridge Scholars program created a pathway to honors education for CUNY community college students.

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Mobilities and the ‘international academic’ in higher education

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It was an interesting week full of presentations and discussions around the theme of Mobilities in Higher Education. In the opening plenary talk, Emily Henderson invited us to reflect critically on the different ways in which mobilities of academics and students in higher education are discursively constructed.

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Tenacity Propels African Immigrant Along Engineering Path

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It might end up causing more disadvantages in the system.” Academia, entrepreneurship, and policy are all options. “We’ve developed tools that generate tremendous data that we could eventually collect from the brain,” Nerrise said. “We We don’t explain to the layperson enough what that truly means for us to own and use that data.

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Five Ideas for Careers Services (AKA Universities and Colleges)

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This was cuttingly summed up as ‘Primark versus Professional’ work-based opportunities, with privately educated students and those with a more privileged hinterland tending to have far stronger personal professional networks to tap into, while those with less social and economic capital often have to make do with less rich experiences.

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Forging Engineering Pathways

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Electrical Engineering Education:   B.S. It might end up causing more disadvantages in the system.” Academia, entrepreneurship, and policy are all options. Favour Nerrise Institution:   Stanford University Graduate Program:   Ph.D., Williams; S. Gordon Moore Jr., They have me for life, for sure,” she said. It’s my calling.”

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Help Wanted

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Schools of nursing are working to not only educate future nurses, but also bring more diversity to the profession. Response to the pandemic In 2022, Claflin, an HBCU institution in Orangeburg, South Carolina, was an AACN Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability in Nursing Education Lectureship Award Winner.