HEPI
OCTOBER 30, 2022
HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In this blog, my aim is to bring together a few exemplars of experiences by people of colour within academia. As Black History Month comes to a close, there is an opportunity for reflection.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
I appreciated the book's critical engagement with archival documents and photographs in the creation of a Black feminist poetics,” says Dr. Saidiya Hartman, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. And then I'm interested in complicating them with the other truths of American history.”
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 26, 2022
She feels it’s important to share her stories with women — in and out of academia — and build community with other scholars. I was always very conscious of the small number of Black women in the profession, in academia, but then in the discipline of political science,” she continues. I thought, ‘Why don’t we know this history?’”
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
The university said in a statement late Tuesday that it "appreciates former director Patty Limerick’s significant scholarly contributions to academia and the American West. This does not affect Limerick’s tenured position as professor of history or her ability to conduct research."
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 11, 2022
First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists. As our research participants have shared, the humanities need a definition of “humanities” beyond a list of disciplines (English, theology, philosophy, history, etc.) Their perspectives and mine oppose much of what Tavárez outlines.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 28, 2023
Image: When Julianna Barnes set her sights on a career in academia, she envisioned eventually becoming a vice president of an institution and assumed it would be her pinnacle role in the profession. “Serving as chancellor was a natural progression, given my professional history,” she said.
The Change Leader, Inc.
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Duty of obedience, in which the trustee follows the law and applicable governing documents as well as his or her own reasoned judgement to make decisions that are consistent with the institutional mission. These board members are political appointees who decided that I wasn’t.” These types of decisions come with significant ramifications.
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