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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2018, Gray and his colleagues won the Best Article Award for a publication in Educational Psychologist, titled “Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures.” Gray began conducting youth programs when he arrived at North Carolina State as a professor in 2012.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Ball, the Charles E. Dr. Joyce E.

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Journal places warning on flawed abuse-homosexuality study

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Last month, more than 20 years after the Archives of Sexual Behavior published research surveying gay people about whether they were molested as children—and whether they identified as gay before or after—a note appeared online. Yet a table in the same article said 68 percent identified as gay before being molested.

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Harvard Names Dr. Claudine Gay to Presidency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gay will be the second Black woman to lead an Ivy League university, following Dr. Ruth Simmons, who served as president of Brown University from 2001 to 2012. Liann Herder can be reached at lherder@diverseeducation.com Jon Edelman and Arrman Kyaw contributed to this article.

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Promotion and Tenure: Guidelines to Succeed

The Scholarly Teacher

With this emphasis on publications, presentations, service, and grants, the importance of effective teaching decreases (Trower, 2012). Hallmarks of Effective Promotion and Tenure Systems Good promotion and tenure systems have clearly communicated standards to include the number of journal articles, presentations and grants expected.

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Intensive English could disappear further

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” He also said Pitt is an R-1 research university, and closing the ELI would reduce his department’s research capacity regarding how people learn English. He said that, around 2012, ELI was moved out of Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning building. “Closing this closes us down from the world,” he said.

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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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