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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. We're sharing our scholarship but we're also sharing little bits of who we are as humans. I do think there is a way to use it to be authentic.

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

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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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International student athletes in the US – a Global North affair?

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Plenty of scholarships are indeed available, even down to activities like chess, esports and the non-contact version of American football, flag football. Those team sports generally provide more scholarship places to begin with but the competition is fierce. It’s not a cheap thing to do.

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

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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. Nevertheless, the questioning of one’s place (am I right to be here?);