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Toward a more inclusive peer-review process (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The incentive to review book manuscripts is near nonexistent, and not just because the payment university presses are able to provide for this service, in the form of cash or books, is inevitably quite small compared to the time and thought required to give detailed, in-depth feedback. Acknowledges the consequences of COVID-19.

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Why Faculty Diversity Matters

Confessions of a Community College Dean

After all, similar disparities can be found across the knowledge economy: in journalism, law, consulting, tech, and finance. ” But why, one might well ask, is the faculty’s lack of representativeness a problem? Is the representativeness problem a matter of social justice? A barrier to student success? Or something else?

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3 Tips to Streamline Community College Compliance Reporting

EAB

Next, Northampton’s IR and IE staff partnered with Edify’s professional services team to build exports in Edify that matched every form field and reporting requirement for both IPEDS and the Pennsylvania state reporting agency, PIMS.