HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

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. There is also an added pressure to represent, due to being one of a few role models for students.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

The three presidents to step down demonstrate a variety of reasons for making a change: to reengage in academia, pursue other professional opportunities or make way for new leadership during trying times. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years. Blank Center for Campus History and a professorship in her honor. She held a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This narrative is not only bad for our students’ mental health, it is also an ineffective strategy for building a lasting movement for change. The problem is not that our students are concerned; critical reflection on the world’s problems does, after all, require emotional work. Partner with local governments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. A graduate of Morehouse College, Canton earned a master’s degree in Black studies at The Ohio State University and a doctorate in history at Temple University. there were protests on campus.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

To ensure music students gain a more inclusive education, universities are beginning to expand their areas of study. Through its new master’s program in Black sacred music, UA will train students to work in careers linked to gospel music. Both the center and master’s degree program were funded by a $848,000 donation from the Alice L.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Hired Devin Stephenson – Florida Polytechnic University Devin Stephenson has been selected to become Florida Polytechnic University’s next president, the second in the institution’s 12-year history. In Campbell’s 137-year history, there have only been five presidents. But Creed’s career was no minor note.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

It didn’t help that the editor who fired me was only slightly older than most of my students. That being said, what does this mean for teaching students to write well? I posit that what we will be focused on is helping students become good editors. ” After all, I had been so dutiful about my research and my writing.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Fostering student success takes institutional leadership and collaboration. Barrington Price, Dominican University’s vice president of student success and engagement, knows this well—because he was a struggling first-generation college student himself. Q: What attracted you to your role? Many work full-time.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It is the stuff of academia. My interest in the student experience has been accompanied by an enormous increase in research in this area. This increase can be quantified, should you wish, by the number of papers cited under the rubric ‘Students’ in the SRHE Research Abstracts. There have been insights shared and arguments made.

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SRHE

MARCH 6, 2023

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. arguing that the legacy of elitism persists in relation to higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. Point Foundation Scholars “Students posted videos on Tik Tok of them having to pull down the rainbow flag and to shutter the doors,” says Hall. These are the real impacts.” of non-LGBTQ people.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

UAW members say that these adjustments address a worsening housing affordability crisis: according to union survey data, 92 percent of graduate student workers and 61 percent of postdocs are “rent burdened,” meaning that they spend more than 30 percent of their gross income, the federal affordability threshold, on housing.

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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. Q: How does being a first-generation, low-income or undocumented student play a role in student success?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. International students comprise 30 percent of the student body.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

is not just about learning, reading, or writing Navajo, it’s really preparing [its students] with tools so that they will be efficient in designing their research studies, conducting research, and finding solutions to some of the challenges that we have,” says Guy. Those same students are talented, creative. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She feels it’s important to share her stories with women — in and out of academia — and build community with other scholars. I was always very conscious of the small number of Black women in the profession, in academia, but then in the discipline of political science,” she continues. I thought, ‘Why don’t we know this history?’”

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

will be moving into entrepreneurial pursuits after serving in academia for 30 years, according to The Oklahoman. He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. as the dean of students, interim vice president of student affairs and vice president of academic affairs.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? My mentors worked extensively with doctoral students (David Brion Davis had more than 60); few of us will have as many Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Carey is president of ACT-UAW Local 7902, a union representing more than 4,000 part-time and adjuncts, student educators, and healthcare workers at New York University and The New School. The new contract allows our community to move forward fully focused on continuing to provide our students with an exceptional academic experience."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Erik Gellman, a tenured associate professor of history at UNC, of HB 715, officially called the Higher Education Modernization & Affordability Act. Eichner was particularly concerned about the bill in light of recent history. Our rankings would fall precipitously.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On the opening day, academics shared findings on student success at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), while others tackled issues of pay inequity in internships. Gaston Gayles directly addressed the toxicity of the constantly productive, highly competitive environment in academia. Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci, a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. Still, I wish Bunch’s reporting had surfaced some of the issues that those of us within academia are debating today as we try to confront challenges of student costs and access while navigating significant structural demographic and funding challenges.

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

They teach, conduct research in their fields, serve on college committees, and mentor students. 70% of adjunct faculty work on per-semester contracts, and 25% hold jobs outside academia to supplement their work and incomes since they generally have a lower salary than tenured professors.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Navigating the Crossroads of Tradition and Modern Market Dynamics Colleges and universities have a long history of helping students transform their lives. Prospective students now approach higher education opportunities with the savvy and skepticism of seasoned buyers.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 8, 2023

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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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

I don’t know that there’s been a point in time in history where we haven’t concerned ourselves with any of these.” In academia, she taught as an instructor in the Emory University Center for Human Health and assistant professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine, where she designed the Master of Public Health Global Health Track.

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#Deaning

MARCH 27, 2023

She completed a minor in German Studies during her undergrad and joined the Department of History in 2020 as their Academic Programs Assistant. ◾ Stephen Henighan (SOLAL/ Spanish and Hispanic Studies) recently contributed a chapter to Cambridge University Press’s new five-volume history of Latin American literature. .

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ACRLog

MARCH 31, 2024

As a MLIS student at San Jose State University (SJSU), I often read about the importance of promoting library services through outreach efforts. I have collaborated with faculty, staff, students, and community members to make these events successfully happen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Her pursuit for knowledge led her to a career in academia where she has devoted her life to centering the experiences of Black women. “All those kinds of things shaped me in becoming a sociologist,” Pittman said in an interview with Diverse. She is the founder and director of the black digital humanities project – Real Black Grandmothers.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. She is also a first-generation student.

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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? Data can help do that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union. Within a year, the number of students of color increased exponentially.

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ACRLog

APRIL 18, 2023

I had about 10 students, most of whom were older members of the community from the surrounding county. Censorship by the Numbers, ALA By covering titles that are on current lists of challenged books, our conversation felt urgent and relevant to the lives of my students. but leave lots of room for where the conversation can go.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Checking to make sure the links are valid is something that should be done every time a course using OERs is made available to students. Therefore, it is important not only to test that links are still active, but also to regularly check that they lead where you want your students to go to access the OERs. Note the publisher.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. from Stanford in the 1980s and went on to become one of the leading scholars of climate science history, as well as a fierce advocate for the role of academia in advancing urgent climate solutions. Students and Scholars Push Back.

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