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Doctoral Borderlands: an exploration of doctoral education and its possible futures

SRHE

At the SRHE conference 2021, we (Karen S, Neil and Susan) facilitated a symposium in two parts on Doctoral Borderlands. What it is to be a doctoral student and what it means to do a doctorate is evolving, and traditional stereotypes, of young, full-time, funded students are no longer fit for purpose.

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DEIJ Annual Report for 2022-2023

Goucher DEI

Hugh Dennis, director of risk management and contracts joins the Committee for this coming academic year. Academic Affairs also offered “Broad, Humane Perspective” mini-grants to faculty and staff for DEIJ theme-related programming.

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

Research Excellence Framework 2021. The irritations researchers experience when working with secondary data are exemplified in looking at the REF 2021 results and comparing with 2014. The 2021 results by Unit of Assessment (UoA) on screen are laid out with all four profiles in one line across the page. by Ian McNay.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. Doctorates for young scholars came next and in 1921 Oxford granted its first DPhil and Cambridge its first PhD, both expecting original research.

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Higher Ed Cybersecurity, MOVEit Hack, and 3rd-Party Risk: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 163 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Brian Kelly

The Change Leader, Inc.

The Federal Trade Commission’s Safeguards Rule, which changed the standards around safeguarding customer information, went into effect on December 9 th , 2021. There are nine elements. Institutions must annually vet employees granted access to information and ensure more people haven’t been granted access.