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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Degrees and Certifications Help Inform the Future of DEI Leadership

Insight Into Diversity

To meet the growing demand, many are developing distinctive degrees, certificates, and other programs that help graduate students, faculty, and workforce professionals develop the required skills. Through the program’s partnership with INSIGHT, students can receive scholarship funding.

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Exploring British Muslim transitions to PGT studies

SRHE

An intersectionality of disadvantage Transitions centres the testimonies of British Muslims, deploying a Critical Race Theory (CRT) methodology and qualitative analysis to examine the lived experiences of candidates for the Aziz Foundation’s flagship Masters Scholarship programme.

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SRHE News on Publishing: reports from April 2023

SRHE

The problem is magnified by the academic publishing industry and by academic institutions, pleased to pretend that peer review is safeguarding scholarship. Thus, we argue the importance of viewing these mislocated centers as the result of unequal power relations in academia. Author slots are openly bought and sold.

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A pathway to graduate school for Latinx students

Inside Higher Ed

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. Also, doing that work can and should be done in connection with community.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. to offer scholarships to DACA students.

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A More Efficient University Business Model For The Win – Part 2: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 195 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. Melik Khoury

The Change Leader, Inc.

Khoury notes that 90% of individuals in academia, especially on residential campuses, lack certain skills that are necessary for adapting to new models of teaching and governance. And the idea of a democratic representation in lieu of expertise representation hurts us in academia when we are not sitting on a pile of money. [00:34:52]

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