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La Academia Familia Latina at Montana State University

Insight Into Diversity

A free, five-week certificate program begins this week at Montana State University (MSU) to expand educational literacy and opportunities for Latino residents. Adding La Academia Familia Latina to this list, LPI addresses a wide range of Montana’s bilingual and multicultural educational needs through teaching, research, and community impact.

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Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions to Host Annual Early-Career MSI Faculty Professional Development Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

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Getting started with professional development

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I never thought I’d be here, entrenched in academia and needing to think about publishing research. At Salisbury University, I am the Research Help Desk Coordinator. That requires a master’s degree.” I’ll talk a bit about my most recent presentation, then some of my broader thoughts.

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HBCU/MSI Research Summit Fosters Research, Recruitment Collaboration

Insight Into Diversity

Through the November 2023 HBCU/MSI Research Summit — a joint effort between Virginia Tech’s Graduate School and the Pamplin College of Business — the university welcomed 25 visiting faculty and staff from participating institutions.

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Core-Skills Based or Task-Focused Academic Librarianship?

ACRLog

Charlotte Higgins, Greek Myths: A New Retelling I read an interesting column in University Affairs that argues work in academia is often task-focused. Our jobs consist of short- and long-term tasks, projects, advancement, professional development, and so on. I think there’s room for both core skills and tasks.

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The Competition for Talent Never Ends. How Can You Win?

PeopleAdmin

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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Burnout and Work-Work Balance

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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