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

The PIE News

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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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She was hired by SIUE in 2020 as part of a cluster hire designed specifically to recruit faculty members of color. Hall was so enamored of her cluster that she produced a short film about it, documenting how the relationships that she and the other professors had formed helped them navigate being people of color in academia.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

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? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Dominican University VP builds hope for first-gen students

Inside Higher Ed

Our Pillars Scholars program supports first-year African American students, including by providing scholarships and opportunities to engage in community-based, social justice opportunities. All the academia fades away in that moment to one prevailing thought: this moment is the beginning. Around 20 percent enter graduate school.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. Less than 10% of applicants are accepted.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. She joined the task force, and over the next year, members laid out a program for recruiting and retaining minority students.

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Mobilities and the ‘international academic’ in higher education

SRHE

She debated how discursive constructions of mobility may influence who can access academia/higher education, who can gain recognition, and who can establish a feeling of belonging. For some years now, critical scholarship on internationalisation has been growing.