Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) will host its 8th annual early-career faculty professional development program, ELEVATE (Enriching Learning, Enhancing Visibility & Training Educators), this week. I arrived at ELEVATE wondering if the tenure track was right for me. "I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“Grace” Jinliu Wang will become the 17th president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), effective Apr. WPI is a world-class institution with a unique and vital approach to teaching, learning, and discovery. Dr. Grace Wang “WPI’s founding principles of theory and practice resonate strongly with me,” Wang said.

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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. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If we want to avoid just burning the whole humanities “thing” down, we need to start applying some of our fundamental humanities skills in order to communicate better with one another, to actually hear one another’s perspectives, and to build together toward something new rather than tearing each other down. (And

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. He also leads work at Humanities Indicators and holds a Ph.D.

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

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. In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

I am aging faster in academia. It is no secret that women scholars of color die earlier in academia and are less likely to be in leadership positions in upper administration in higher education institutions. Instead, I would like to humanize how best to honor death and grief in a moment in which Dr. Orinthia T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. Institute of Peace U.S. Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Dr. Corey D.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. ” What does Cowen worry about when he worries about higher ed?

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

The panic around AI replacing human effort has calmed as knowledge has grown. However, success demands bold action, collaboration beyond academia, and continuous reassessment of their own evolving relationship with this transformative technology. Though there are real and mounting risks in misinformation and disinformation.

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

However, human knowledge and expertise have a limit and cannot adapt to the real-time network needs of a campus. As academia continues to grapple with the speedy advancement of AI, CIOs must be willing to step up and educate their campuses on practical use cases of this groundbreaking technology. This is where AI shines.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

University of Maryland Career mentors: Claudia Coen, Irby Lovette, John Hermanson, and Dan Riskin, all at Cornell University; Brock Fenton, Western University; Jerry Wilkinson, University of Maryland; Rachel Page, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Damien Farine Jr., Cornell University; M.S., University of Western Ontario; and Ph.D.,

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“This unique program combines King’s global leadership in digital humanities and psychology with the experiences of veteran and junior UX designers,” Mark Lester, chief partnerships officer at FourthRev , explained. It launched a similar program in product management in 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Tensions between individual and institutional politics are particularly pronounced in Catalonia, where university statements supporting pro-independence leaders have attracted legal penalties. The January open letter by Academia for Coexistence had gathered almost 1,300 signatures from academics across Spain and beyond at the time of writing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. Epps herself remarked that it was an honor and privilege to serve as acting president of the institution that “I love so much, that has been such an important part of my life, and always will be.” Dr. Crystal A.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

In my book Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022), I dive deep into my personal experience and share those of other women from across academia with the goal of shedding light and providing language for us to have open conversations about this workplace phenomenon.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Lidadi Agbomi Institution: Clemson University Graduate Program: Ph.D., We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.” She looks forward to learning more about the human brain and giving back to the communities that have helped her. Bioengineering Education: B.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.” She looks forward to learning more about the human brain and giving back to the communities that have helped her. Agbomi has received several honors, including the NIH NIA Outstanding Scholar Award. This year, she’s a student ambassador for the NIH R25 program.

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PeopleAdmin

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Human resources teams in higher education institutions face a unique set of challenges when it comes to recruiting and hiring, as they must continually adapt to changing trends in academia, technology, and workforce expectations, along with shifting perceptions of HigherEd as a workplace.

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Continuous Learning Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Human bodies were not meant to sit still for 90 minutes or 75 minutes or even 50 minutes. I think if we all just centered the humanity and gave people the benefit of the doubt in our educational settings, no one would ever need any accommodations because we would already have the structures in place to create a human education system."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

The statistics are telling and a clarion call for teacher education institutions to evaluate/audit their course offering and syllabi content. However, in higher education, many institutions already employ these strategies. Very telling is that female teachers (55%) express more burn out than male teachers (44%). Dr. Donna Y.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Explaining or discussing faith can ignite heated, passionate and explosive debates in academia. institution, was founded in 1636 to train Congregational clergy. Over time, the degree to which institutions align themselves with a particular faith waxes and wanes. Blog: Just Explain It to Me! In the U.S.,

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

Marc joins us to discuss the potential of AI in digital learning and to highlight the amazing work happening at his institution to prepare faculty and students for a future that includes working with AI. This summer, we hosted an innovative cross-disciplinary AI Institute for Teachers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Three college administrators—including one president—will be coordinating goodbye parties at their current institutions as they prepare to move on to bigger opportunities elsewhere. More from UB: The human toll of rampant college closures Retired Bradley Creed – Campbell University (N.C.)

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the work of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in higher education has expanded, several institutions have recognized the need to create a clearer and more comprehensive pathway for individuals interested in serving as DEI advocates and leaders. Through the program’s partnership with INSIGHT, students can receive scholarship funding.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A social and cultural historian with a specialty in the history of childhood, the family and the life course, he directed Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center and the UT system’s Institute for Transformational Learning. Nor was I the first in my family to go to college.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Just three months later, ChatGPT made artificial intelligence a popular reality, and the very definition of knowledge work, and how much of it humans will continue to do, is very much in question. These recent developments in AI have the potential to displace humans from whole categories of knowledge work.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

What is the role for human agency in these types of assemblages with human and non-human actors, so as not to feel helpless or a “cog” while respecting the need to de-centre the human? The agency of humans is constrained by the people, technologies and materials we are bound to or surrounded by.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The presenters argued for greater transparency in academic writing processes, debunking myths of inherent genius and emphasizing the need for human editing and critical thinking. This blog post encapsulates the key themes from an engaging dialogue on machine translation in university settings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Of course, institutions can’t simply hire a group of minoritized faculty and expect them to flourish without any support. “It And they weren’t looking to just hire one. Dr. Robin L.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In August 2020, the UK Government and Parliament rejected a petition that called for Confucius Institutes to be closed as they were considered the ‘Trojan propaganda organs’ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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SRHE

JANUARY 26, 2024

I addressed the ways in which administrative staff and professional services staff are included within academic research, as a representation of their human capital, roles and responsibilities, the ‘minions of management’ that Dopson & McNay discuss leads to an absence of voice and authority.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 4, 2022

Let’s explore a schematic analysis looking at campuses as institutions and communities, facing perhaps the greatest crisis of the century. (I To start, let’s break down the different ways by which the climate emergency can hit academic institutions. I draw the following from my forthcoming book on the topic, Universities on Fire.)

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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. Smith University (JCSU, an HBCU institution) in Charlotte, N.C. This includes studying through interdisciplinary lenses how power relations drive human behavior and impact societies.

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