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Breaking Bread in Communities of Learners

The Scholarly Teacher

Paul Vivian Johnson , Hamline University Key Statement: This article reports on a relationship between two social justice professors who shared stories of battle fatigue and, in doing so, supported each other in avoiding burnout. Unfortunately, burnout is frequent in this work when confronted with faculty and learner pushback.

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The Black Woman’s Burden: Battling Inertia in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As Turner Kelly recalls, that year many Black faculty members were called upon to make statements and became de facto representatives of their institution’s commitment to diversity by virtue of their identity. Fries-Britt said that, when she first became a faculty member, she was struck by the culture of bullying that existed in academia.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gay previously served in several roles at the school, including the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, dean of social science, professor of government, and professor of African and African American Studies. Andrew Gothard, president of the United Faculty of Florida union, said in a January statement.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And since then, most faculty members and students have been thriving with either a hybrid model or in-person classes. In 2005, the publication broadened its focus, becoming Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. We attempted to do something for Black faculty and administrators and so Black Issues was started.

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How College Transforms Students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Terenzini’s How College Affects Students (originally published in 1991 and revised in 2005 and updated in 2016 by Matthew J. Their faculty take teaching and mentoring seriously. Pascarella and Patrick T. Mayhew, Alyssa N. Rockenbach, Nicholas A. Bowman, Tricia A. Seifert, and Gregory C.