Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Medical humanities recenters health in a broader social, cultural, and historical context, using humanities and social sciences methods to analyze the contexts of illness and health. The center will apply a medical humanities approach in addressing health disparities related to race/ethnicity and income, and health equity.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences.

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MARCH 16, 2023

Lead investigator Gabriella Torres, associate provost for academic administration and faculty affairs and William Isaac Cole Chair in Anthropology at Wheaton, says, “We’re really trying to create adaptable, student-centered teaching modules that could be used in the humanities or the natural sciences, or even the social sciences.”

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MARCH 24, 2023

Howell is an assistant professor of health sciences, director of the healthy aging research laboratory at Alaska Anchorage and author of Anthropological Perspectives on Aging (University Press of Florida). In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Alaska at Anchorage’s Britteny M. Howell says your health could be on the line.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Today on the Academic Minute : Dimitris Xygalatas, associate professor in the departments of anthropology and psychological sciences at the University of Connecticut, explores how the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced the importance of being around other people. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Bryant University Katayoun Alidadi, history and social sciences Alicia T.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Xygalatas is an associate professor in the departments of anthropology and psychological sciences at UConn. The COVID-19 pandemic has made us realize the importance of being around other people. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Connecticut’s Dimitris Xygalatas explains why.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

In 1999, Pääbo, who born in Sweden, founded the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, where he is still active. He also holds a position as adjunct professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, in Japan.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Meanwhile, the top five most popular fields of study among prospective students are art, psychology, health and exercise science, business, and music, the survey found. The bottom five are philosophy and religious studies, anthropology, communications studies, physics, and political science).

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage.

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MARCH 9, 2023

But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty. Science fiction is the genre that allows us to imagine the future—not just future technologies, but the future of society and human life.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

López Valdez , assistant professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Cleveland State University Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computer science, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution. “We

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Two recent books that have received widespread attention underscore a much broader emotional or affective turn in humanistic and social science scholarship. Emotions, in Mesquita’s eyes, are culturally specific – and this idea has had far-reaching impact across the humanities and social sciences.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

” Reflecting on “fifty years of living with Crohn’s,” he “consider[s] how Western medicine’s turn from an ‘art of healing’ toward a ‘science of medicine’ deeply affects both medical practitioners and their patients.” Peter Benson’s Stuck Moving.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

In spring 2022, the National Science Foundation awarded $1.5 Available data suggest that the nation’s faculty are less diverse than relevant comparison groups in terms of socioeconomic status. But these data now describe faculty members working at colleges and universities nearly 20 years ago. What Do We Do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Beasley is associate director of cultural resources, partnerships, and science for the National Park Service (NPS). Agarwal, chair of the UC Berkeley anthropology department and member of the school’s NAGPRA Implementation Committee. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Not only do our Justice and Law Administration majors take introductory courses in Political Science and Psychology, but they also take those ideas to the many contexts of the criminal justice system. Suggesting that these are lesser experiences devalues the work of these applied disciplines and the interests and ambitions of our students.

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JULY 11, 2023

Electronic Journal of Science Education, 23 (3), 73-95. Nontraditional students: Understanding and meeting their needs in the anthropology classroom. Teaching and Learning Anthropology, 2 (2), 25-40. [link] Marsteller, R., & Bodzin, A. Mays, T., & Ross, S. The Counseling Psychologist, 9 (2), 2-18.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Student spotlights: Abigail and Charlie In our research, we encountered Abigail (pseudonym), a multiracial nursing student whose social media savviness aids her personal and professional aspirations, and Charlie (pseudonym), an anthropology student whose non-binary identity informs their digital expression and connection. link] Cohen, G.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Student spotlights: Abigail and Charlie In our research, we encountered Abigail (pseudonym), a multiracial nursing student whose social media savviness aids her personal and professional aspirations, and Charlie (pseudonym), an anthropology student whose non-binary identity informs their digital expression and connection. link] Cohen, G.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Nicolas Langlitz Matt Manley for The Chronicle In a recent spat over a panel at their annual meeting, two anthropology groups suggested that the biology of sex is "settled science." Authoritarian decrees on controversial matters like the biology of sex violate the best traditions of the field.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Association Cancels a Panel Ryan Quinn Wed, 10/04/2023 - 03:00 AM Five controversial female scholars were set to speak on sex and gender at next month’s big anthropology conference. Other academics alleged they were pushing harmful views conflicting with “settled science.” Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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AUGUST 23, 2022

I’ve written before about the need to cultivate social science literacy. Every social science discipline not only has its distinct subject matter and language; it also has its unique ways of thinking. What about the core social science disciplines? Anthropology. Political Science.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Travis York, director of inclusive STEMM ecosystems for equity & diversity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

More than that, these initiatives express a broader turn in humanities and social science scholarship away from the cultural, postmodern, and post-structuralist turns that dominated anthropology, geography, history, literature, political science, and sociology since the mid- and late-1970s.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

These range from first-year learning communities and meta majors to opportunity cohorts, research cohorts and pre-professional support centers in areas like business, computer science and prelaw and premed. Expand programs that promote student-faculty interaction.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Edited by Wanda Teays, a professor of philosophy emerita at Mount Saint Mary’s University, and Alison Dundes Renteln, a professor of political science, anthropology, law, and public policy at USC, this volume sheds a bright light on the spate of recent administrative, academic, financial, and sexual scandals.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I took some of the hardest “classes” known as the Age of Dinosaurs and Anthropology and ended up getting a C and B- in both classes. Unsurprisingly, the STEM fields, like computer science, have been skyrocketing, not only in terms of outcomes, but also in terms of employment. I was far behind a lot of my college classmates.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

Recent reports by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and the Center for American Progress on sexual orientation and gender identity data call for change in clinical and research data collection. Daniel Ginsberg (they) is director of education and professional practice at the American Anthropological Association.

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MARCH 5, 2023

I think it is fair to say that we are in the midst of a historic paradigm shift within the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. Often described in pejorative terms – as an embrace of wokeness or Critical Race Theory or Social Justice ideology – I think it is better understood as a shift in focus and language.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 25, 2023

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed ® , Drumm speaks with Sethuraman Panchanathan, President of the National Science Foundation (NSF). National Science Foundation (NSF). Panchanathan is a leader in science, engineering, and education with more than three decades of experience. Senate on June 18, 2020.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Suny’s emphasis on the power of narrative is in line with a broader drift in scholarship that is exerting a powerful influence on anthropology, history, medicine, psychology and sociology. It represents an effort to define an alternative to two conflicting points of view.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

The conference will focus on the organizational structures leading to censorship and stifling debate and how to repair them.” Some of these speakers have long had reputations as free speech advocates. But many recently have been involved in their own academic freedom or academic freedom–adjacent disputes.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Earlier attempts to apply psychological, and especially psychoanalytic concepts to anthropology, history, political science, and other fields have met with much scholarly scorn – for good reasons. Social and Political Psychologizing.

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