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Report: Faculty of Color in Psychology Face Structural Hurdles in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

population and workforce, the same cannot be said for academic institutions,” said Dr. Margarita Azmitia, a psychology professor at UC Santa Cruz and co-chair of the APA Task Force. According to the report, faculty of color can be subject to several “taxes” in academia. Meanwhile, despite totaling over 30% of the U.S.

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Scholars Discuss Advantages and Pitfalls of Social Media in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The webinar – hosted by UMich’s National Center of Institutional Diversity (NCID) – took place on Tuesday and was moderated by Edmund Graham, associate director of the NCID. Aireale Rodgers, a postdoctoral fellow on the HEAL Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who will become an assistant professor of higher education this fall. “As

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Sunak U-turns on shuttering UK’s Confucius Institutes

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In a U-turn decision, the UK government is no longer planning to close the country’s 30 Confucius Institutes. A spokesperson for UK prime minister Rishi Sunak said, “We are taking action to remove all government funding from Confucius Institutes in the UK, but currently judge that it would be disproportionate to ban them.”

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Navigating the AI revolution in higher education: a call to action

HEPI

As a seasoned academic who has witnessed the advance of AI over four decades, I believe that any reluctance to adapt to this digital dawn will only undermine institutions dedicated to intellectual and scientific discovery. Too much of our current higher education system is still predicated on memorisation, a relic of a pre-digital era.

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Working-Class and working in higher education: possibilities and pedagogies

SRHE

It is now accepted that the ‘leaky pipeline’ of academia, whereby ‘non-traditional’ ( eg working-class, BAME) participants remain absent from professorial and higher managerial positions within UKHE is adversely affecting the diversity of scholarship and leadership.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6%

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What Does Faith Look Like in Higher Education?

Inside Higher Ed

Explaining or discussing faith can ignite heated, passionate and explosive debates in academia. And yet, faith has played and continues to play a large part in higher education. institution, was founded in 1636 to train Congregational clergy. Blog: Just Explain It to Me! In the U.S.,