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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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Making Math More Equitable

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I love seeing my feed blow up w/ the news that numerous research proposals adopting critical & intersectional approaches to advancing justice in math & STEM higher ed were accepted as presentations during the 2024 @AERA_EdResearch Annual Mtg in Philadelphia. “I Congrats, colleagues!” He’s bringing innovative approaches.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As I was going through my career and figuring out the research that drives me and that I want to do, opportunities came up at the U of A,” she says. For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. She says she analyzed TV news coverage of the legislation in both Spanish and English.

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Roanoke College to Launch Cannabis Studies Program

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Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. As early as the program’s first course, students will be taught about policy issues, incarceration, criminal justice, and racial bias as it relates to cannabis, Poli said. According to U.S.

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Using the Law to Help Shape Public Policy - Jamelia N. Morgan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Grow where you’re planted.” Along the way, she distinguished herself by writing and lecturing about current issues in the news, including reproductive and voting rights and the criminalization of disability. political science, Stanford University; M.A.,

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UC Berkeley, Harvard to research influence of psychedelics on society and culture

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University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University announced this month that the two institutions received funding to begin research into how psychedelics have influenced art, literature and society. Read more from CBS News.

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Report Shows the Shift Away from Tenured Faculty in the U.S. Academic Workforce

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academic employment has dramatically shifted from mostly full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty to mostly contingent positions. That's according to a new report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)which provides data depicting the shift away from tenure to contingent faculty at most U.S.

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