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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. Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia. That led Byrne to pursue her doctorate at Howard University.

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Mobilities and the ‘international academic’ in higher education

SRHE

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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Exploring British Muslim transitions to PGT studies

SRHE

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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Five Ideas for Careers Services (AKA Universities and Colleges)

HEPI

While one roundtable guest pointed out that continuation and progression rates are generally less good for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, HEPI has previously covered the fact that UK universities have very low non-continuation rates.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Steve: As I look back on what’s now 53 years in higher education and reflect on the professors who most influenced me, not one taught in the ways prescribed by teaching centers or cognitive psychologists. In other words, higher education is a life-or-death proposition for those of us who are from underrepresented communities.

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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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Forging Engineering Pathways

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.