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Graduate Student Appreciation Week

CAPD

If you haven’t yet reached your quota, the MIT Libraries is here to help! CAPD’s Graduate Student Career Advising and Professional Development team has you covered. Have coffee with a friend at Hayden Cafe! Pick up starting Monday, April 3 Serious question: Can you ever have too much coffee? Available while supplies last.

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The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

Higher Education Inquirer

They often lack access to offices, professional development, research funds, and opportunities to collaborate with peers or vote in faculty meetings. They are likely to have to apply for a new campus parking permit or library card every semester. They may be asked to take on a new course with a week or less warning.

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College 2023

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In addition to the standard measures of quality—for example, the share of faculty with a terminal degree or library resources—how about the proportion of students who take part in a high-impact practices, the share of faculty who are undergoing professional development in teaching and postgraduation employment and earnings outcomes?

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SRHE News on Publishing: reports from April 2023

SRHE

Jack Grove had reported for Times Higher Education on 15 March 2023 that analysis by economist Paolo Crosetto (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France) showed “the number of MDPI’s special issues continued to rise sharply in 2022.