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Are Career Paths of Young Black Professionals in Higher Education Being Impeded by Implicit Racism?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So, instead of staying at one’s university and either adapting to the situation or trying to fight the system, professionals with their inherent commitment to the academy are giving up and looking for employment elsewhere, very often in completely different industries.

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Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do?

University Business

The world of higher education was shocked when Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the former president of Stanford University, stepped down after an independent review found his published research fell short of “scientific rigor and process” and was mired with flaws and manipulated data. The latter may be the worst culprit.

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It may be time to rethink the college minor (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Upon graduation, students receive their associate degree in automotive technology, along with up to 19 industry-specific certifications, and are employed at their sponsoring dealership. The research on college minors and their effects on student outcomes is scant if not nonexistent. Disable left side advertisement?:

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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

One of the foundational studies in this field is Healey, Flint, and Harrington's (2014), offering a conceptual model that outlines student engagement through partnership with faculty through four pathways: assessment projects, curriculum consultation, subject-based research, and SoTL (see Figure 1).

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Funding Research for Tier Two Institutions with NSF: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 165 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan

The Change Leader, Inc.

25 July · Episode 165 Funding Research for Tier Two Institutions with NSF 37 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Funding research for tier two institutions enables building robust infrastructures, achieving groundbreaking discoveries and expanding STEM.

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Must Headlines Deceive?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A February 23, 2024, article in Diverse headlined “Growing Number of College Grads Earn Less Than the Typical High School Graduate” was based on a report from the HEA Group – a headline mirrored in other national media (including CBS MoneyWatch, Forbes, and the New York Times ).

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Sustainability and Careers – 3 Panel Events 

CAPD

CAPD is offering a series of sustainability panels to help students explore how they can make an impact beyond MIT in the jobs, research, and career paths they choose. As future research leaders in academia and industry, learn how you can set up your labs to foster sustainability practices while engaging in cutting edge discoveries.