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How to write more supportive, inclusive syllabi (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

This is often used as an opportunity to present the syllabus as a “contract” and to make course policies and penalties clear to students. On the first day of class, many faculty will dedicate time to going over the course syllabus. She is part of the national leadership team for the Student Experience Project.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” ASHE is moving its 2024 meeting to Minneapolis, even though it may incur financial costs from breaking a contract with the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. Guilbeau, the higher ed research group’s executive director. California had 133,399 full-time higher education employees as of March 2021, according to U.S.

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The Helen Perkins era

SRHE

Helen Perkins was appointed as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education in 2004. In December 2021, after another very successful Research Conference, she gave notice of her intention to retire. The benefits were such that the Society was able to introduce its now established series of annual research grants.

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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. In my recent work (Gravett, 2021), I explore the power of these tropes and depictions, in order to ask: what do spatial narratives do?

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Research is a relative newcomer to the work of English universities.

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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.

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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

Those initial 2-3 years ended up stretching to 38 ½ years before I retired in March 2021, covering six countries and territories and incorporating a move from faculty to academic administration. . And for some scholars, there are academic benefits to living and working in a locality or culture where one’s research is centered.