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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

LAS VEGAS-- Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Emotional labour in the ivory tower: highlighting the experiences of academics of colour

HEPI

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. Emotional labour has several meanings, and inevitably some are context dependent.

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Writer-Professor Explores the Voyage of ‘Becoming'

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But I'm also interested in the ways that Black women's contributions are purposefully and systematically erased from the archival and digital environments." And then I'm interested in complicating them with the other truths of American history.” Entering higher ed and academia, she went on to earn a B.A.

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. There are real repercussions of being Black in this space.”

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Technology Partnerships and Higher Education

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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WCET’s Favorite Read, Watch, and Listens – Summer 2023

WCET Frontiers

The short book does cover that history briefly, but goes deeper into racism and struggles to overcome it in her life in Texas. It also gives a deep history of how racism was built into that state’s structures from the first settlers who came to Texas from what became the Confederacy to a state constitution that favored some over others.

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Five ways to help students take smart sustainability actions (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Higher education professionals have long been concerned with how to raise public awareness about climate change. block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. ” In today’s media environment, the rhetoric of doom is only a click away.