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Silenced Voices: Confronting Linguistic Discrimination and Cultural Erasure in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even within the supposedly safe confines of academia, we are not immune to these oppressive practices. During an address at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Feb. Trickey shared her insights on the ongoing struggles of public schools and the pivotal role of educators in driving positive change. 8, 2018, Ms.

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Racial and Gender Inequities Found in Field of Educational Measurement

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Racial and gender inequities still plague the field of educational measurement, from professional rank to salary, across academia, industry, and leadership roles. Rodriguez said he hopes to learn more about these written responses, particularly as they relate to leadership positions both in academia and the industry.

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Health Equity, Working to Identify Effective Policy Interventions

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Hung is assistant professor of health services policy and management in the University of South Carolina’s (USC) Arnold School of Public Health. She said she chose to take on the USC appointment as her first faculty position and to continue in academia, in part, because she wanted to help uplift others. “I Hung earned her Ph.D.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

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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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Culturally-Sustaining K-12 Education: Who’s Teaching the Teachers?

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There is is a lot of discussion about what K-12 teachers do and don’t (mostly don’t) receive in terms of training in culturally relevant pedagogy, and it is often traced back to teacher education programs. Specifically, 44% of teachers in K-12 education reported that they very often or always feel burned out at work.

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Navigating the Complexities of Machine Translation in University Education

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Their insights shed light on an increasingly relevant topic in today’s multilingual educational environments. Interestingly, while many universities have developed policies around generative AI, the more pervasive use of machine translation often goes unnoticed.

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Strategies for Speaking Out

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Of course, this doesn’t mean violating intellectual property, university policies, or doing anything illegal with student records, protected data, etc. 6) If you think you may want — ever — to go out on your own, outside academia, then start an LLC immediately. Do not leave anything valuable solely on university computing. (Of

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