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MSU Tenure-Track Faculty Look to Unionize

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Michigan State University (MSU) tenure-track faculty have launched a public unionization campaign to gain more influence in administrative decision-making, The State News reported. Though MSU's non-tenure track faculty and many of MSU's non-academic staffers are unionized, its research-focused, tenure-track professors are not.

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Strong Networks Help Turn Black Faculty into University Presidents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders. How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds? Whites make up more than 75% of all professionals in higher education. More than 80% were white.

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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

Reprinted with permission. Background As faculty, our (Assif and Kim) collaboration started during COVID. These five students, including Sonya Ho (a coauthor of this article), received research-assistant pay during the first two months and continued their work on a volunteer basis for the rest of the academic year.

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Report: Significant Amount of Faculty Today Self-Censor Due to Fears of Reprisal

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Faculty members are more likely to self-censor today than social scientists did during McCarthy era of the 1940s and 50s, according to a recent report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). And 42% of untenured faculty reported censoring themselves, compared with 31% of tenured faculty.

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3 reasons administrators are stalling on upgrading edtech

University Business

Education and how professors, administrators and their institutions can deliver content are bristling with innovation thanks to cutting-edge technology. Unfortunately for higher education, college administrators still seem ill-prepared for the disruption such technologies are bound to generate.

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Dartmouth Launches New Research Institute Focused On Black Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dartmouth College has launched the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life (IBICL), a research center focused on the study of the Black diaspora. The Institute symbolizes a commitment between the college and the Black alumni, faculty, students, and staff that make Dartmouth what it is," said Brown.

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Black Men’s Mental Health Addressed During Black Men’s Research Institute Symposium

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College hosted its first Spring Symposium addressing health issues for African American men. He spoke to an audience of AUC students, administrators, and fellow physicians about what society can do differently in mental health. Dr. Walter M. and James L.

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