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New Book Focuses on Anti-Asian Racism, Stereotypes, and Catholic Teachings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cheah proceeded to make Asian American studies part of his career, primarily focusing his scholarship on race and religion. He has written an important book that highlights the persistency of anti-Asian racism rendered invisible in church’s documents and in much of the politics of U.S. I was fascinated by that."

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. Dr. Teik Lim “My family did not have much money, but with the help of a generous undergraduate scholarship from Michigan Tech, I was able to support myself through college and become the first member of my family to earn a college degree,” said Lim.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hall was so enamored of her cluster that she produced a short film about it, documenting how the relationships that she and the other professors had formed helped them navigate being people of color in academia. Hall was encouraged to lean into who she is, to do, as she put it, the scholarship that feeds her soul.

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Mobilities and the ‘international academic’ in higher education

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She debated how discursive constructions of mobility may influence who can access academia/higher education, who can gain recognition, and who can establish a feeling of belonging. For some years now, critical scholarship on internationalisation has been growing.

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Discounted tuition by major devalues the humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

The main reasons Tavárez cites for discounting humanities tuition are lower market value of the humanities, fewer job prospects for humanists, and lower research expenditure for humanities scholarship. First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists.

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ABET Accreditation for higher education - everything you need to know

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The manual way of documenting ABET requirements may lead to missed opportunities. ABET executes accreditation with a "network of experts" who come from various industries and academia to validate and ensure that the institute’s programmatic standards are upheld. All these are to be documented by the beginning of October. .

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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

Inside Higher Ed

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. He referred questions Tuesday to a university spokesperson. " Personal vs. Professional. According to an internal audit of the center, dated Sept.