Academia, History, Professional Development and University

A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Despite being immensely privileged with respect to other K-12 teachers, whose ranks I left to join academia, and to the growing number of non-tenure-track colleagues at UPR, my teaching and activist commitments leave me very little time for scholarly production.

Academia

Academia Professional Development Faculty Scholarship

Advancing Engineering excellence in Ireland: The role of Engineers Ireland (EI)

Creatrix Campus

MAY 22, 2023

From the accreditation of engineering programs to professional development opportunities, Engineers Ireland is leading the way in shaping the future of engineering in Ireland. One of the ways Engineers Ireland promotes engineering excellence is through professional development courses and training programs.

Engineering

Engineering Professional Development Organization Achievement

Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Computer Science Humanities

10 Must-Listen Podcasts to Help Raise Your Leadership Game

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

10 Must-Listen Podcasts to Help Raise Your Leadership Game bridget Thu, 09/21/2023 - 06:00 Podcast Higher Ed Leadership Weekly Wisdom To celebrate this year’s International Podcast Day , the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) revisits the most popular episodes of our Innovating Together Podcast from 2022 and 2023. Click here for full audio.

Leadership

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10 Must-Listen Podcasts to Raise Your Higher Ed Leadership Game

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

10 Must-Listen Podcasts to Raise Your Higher Ed Leadership Game bridget Thu, 09/21/2023 - 06:00 Image Podcast Higher Ed Leadership Weekly Wisdom If you work in higher education leadership, you really should know about The Innovating Together Podcast , created by the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) in partnership with Inside Higher Ed.

Leadership

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SRHE News on Publishing: reports from April 2023

SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

Open access John Sherer (North Carolina) blogged for The Scholarly Kitchen on 23 March 2023 about a recent initiative to publish open access monographs in history, reporting technical problems, author resistance but also much greater take-up/use, with about three times as many reported individual engagements as even a successful paywalled monograph.

Academia

Academia Higher Education Policy Technology

A pathway to graduate school for Latinx students

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Latinx students can have a tough time navigating the numerous structural and institutional challenges that work against them in academia, especially when it comes to attending and succeeding in graduate school. Image Source: Duke University Press Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

Schooling

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Which Side Are You On?

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

percent), and professional and business services (2.2 Labor activism has surged at universities since 2013, adding about 120 new faculty chapters. The Yale petition for an election follows successful graduate student unionization votes at Harvard, Brown University, Columbia, MIT and NYU. Academia is a calling.

Faculty

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Study finds women college leaders of color face more bias

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. percent were Black.

College

College Community College Leadership Higher Education

2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. AmeriCorps Tutors for Youth — Arkansas State University. Minority Male Initiative — Broward College.

Inclusivity

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A Deeper Study of Higher Education Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

In academia, I've always been enamored with folks who can work the art of leadership in a really clear way, all kinds of models, all kinds of people who've inspired me to think, 'If I could just steal a little of that, a little of that.' Nothing was more instructive than watching five years of those.

Higher Education Leadership

Higher Education Leadership Education Leadership Leadership Higher Education

Universities on Fire

HESA

MAY 4, 2023

On this week’s episode of The World of Higher Education Podcast , Bryan Alexander joins us to talk about his new book, Universities on Fire, Higher Education in the Climate Crisis , which was published in March by Johns Hopkins University Press. AU: Bryan, you’ve written a book about universities and the climate crisis.

University

University Academia Higher Education Humanities

The Next Frontiers in the Battle Over CRT and DEI

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Between 2022 and 2023, government entities introduced 57 measures to restrict the teaching of critical race theory in colleges and universities. Taifha Alexander is director of the CRT Forward Project at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, which tracks efforts to restrict information about race and systemic racism.

History

History Scholarship Higher Education Organization

The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

At that year’s How Class Works conference at SUNY Stony Brook, academics from history, political science, labor and industrial relations, and other fields debated Zweig’s use of the term “working class.” Such coalitions create power through the interdependency of all the workforces in a college or university.

Faculty

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University Leadership Central

A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Advancing Engineering excellence in Ireland: The role of Engineers Ireland (EI)

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Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

10 Must-Listen Podcasts to Help Raise Your Leadership Game

10 Must-Listen Podcasts to Raise Your Higher Ed Leadership Game

SRHE News on Publishing: reports from April 2023

A pathway to graduate school for Latinx students

Which Side Are You On?

Study finds women college leaders of color face more bias

2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

A Deeper Study of Higher Education Leadership

Universities on Fire

The Next Frontiers in the Battle Over CRT and DEI

The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

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