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National University Announced The Launch Of The Cause Research Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

National University (NU) announced the launch of the Cause Research Institute (CRI), a new applied Research and Development arm that will coordinate research, scholarship, and other innovation efforts focused on social sector challenges, including education, health, human services, and criminal justice.

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Why Faculty Diversity Matters

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you know that full-time faculty at 4-year universities are: 225 percent more likely to be of a non-Chrisitian faith than other US adults. More than half of full-time faculty have at least one parent with an advanced degree. What explains the faculty’s unrepresentativeness and the sluggishness of change?

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The importance of academic mental health

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I continue to be an advocate for whole institution wellbeing, enhancing focus on academics in policies and practice, as well as increasing impactful research regarding academic mental health so it was pleasing to see university staff being given a spotlight. She is the editor of the Research into Higher Education Abstracts journal.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

My research seeks to understand disparities in mental health outcomes among students with marginalized sociodemographic identities in Canada, and the relationship between mental health and learning with marginalized communities. For these reasons, I selected this as the measure of choice utilized within my research. .

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Governance as a topic in Higher Education Studies

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By Michael Shattock Editor’s note: Michael Shattock is the guru of governance studies in HE; SRHE Blog is delighted to bring you his invitation to researchers in HE to expand their work in governance – a definitive statement about the many contributions that governance research can make to our understanding of higher education.

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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.

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Make the tacit explicit: how to improve information on university webpages for potential doctoral applicants

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Some applicants find this process so challenging that they turn to a range of paid services that help them to learn how to contact a potential doctoral supervisor or develop a research proposal.