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Scholars Respond to the Death of a University Administrator

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many Black women also suffer intersectional discrimination out in the world, which can lead to trauma, mental health challenges, and “racial battle fatigue,” even before they step foot into academia.

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Inclusive research agendas: what’s excluded?

SRHE

Similarly, the degree to which the internal systems of university administration is centralised, or not, has the potential to facilitate or negate healthy working relationships and partnerships, fostered by governance structures.

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Which Side Are You On?

Inside Higher Ed

The Yale petition for an election follows successful graduate student unionization votes at Harvard, Brown University, Columbia, MIT and NYU. Academia is a calling. Dr. Christakis touched off the Twitter exchange with this remark: “Graduate students are primarily students and trainees, not ordinary workers.

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Embracing a New Model for Higher Education Governance Part 2: The Updated Board Duties

The Change Leader, Inc.

Those responsibilities do not stop with the university administration. The Board’s Standard Fiduciary Responsibilities Even as the role of the board evolves, it’s important to reiterate that higher education institutions are legal entities and, with that, have legal responsibilities.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After three decades in academia, Dr. Janet R. At that event, colleagues from early in her career in academia spoke about how when they were young faculty at University of Arizona, Jakobsen built a sense of queer community.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

People outside of academia may be better positioned to evaluate the impact of candidate’s scholarship. · Carefully assess why disconnects occur between external and internal evaluators. Universities often have policies of “re-doing” the tenure meeting in the event of a procedural violation.

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Should professors still record lectures? Maybe. Maybe not

Inside Higher Ed

Some faculty members, however, are concerned that recorded lectures signal the “ Netflixization of academia ,” in which they are either spied on or made obsolete. “This is where the black box of university administration comes in. higher education is engaged in a protracted labor dispute.

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