Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

population and workforce, the same cannot be said for academic institutions,” said Dr. Margarita Azmitia, a psychology professor at UC Santa Cruz and co-chair of the APA Task Force. The professoriate continues to be largely white, largely male. “Despite the increasing diversity of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) AI that can generate long, detailed answers to complicated questions, was first made accessible to the public in November 2022, it changed the landscape of education forever. “As As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive. Dr. Joseph F.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Thanks to two recent publications by Musa al-Gharbi, a Columbia sociologist who I consider among the most insightful social and cultural commentators who I regularly read (see here and here ). The professoriate is growing increasingly ideologically homogeneous. 131 percent more likely to on the political left. How do I know?

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We consider this a timely intervention, in the context of a rapidly changing student demography, indicated in the popular usage of such terms as ‘hyper-diversification’ (Atherton and Mazhari, 2020) within HE policy discourse, and corroborated in recent projections by the professional membership body, Advance HE.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 26, 2023

Then there are the US and Canadian institutions that are rapidly climbing up the rankings: Toronto and the University of Alberta, Emory, Southern Cal, and Vanderbilt – not the campuses that automatically come to mind. Public universities, including Texas, UCLA, Illinois, Georgia Tech, and Washington, outstrip the other privates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The Higher Ed Gamma blog has provided a platform from which I’ve been able to share my opinions about such hot topics as the future of the professoriate, pedagogy, curriculum design, the humanities, campus activism, academic freedom, in loco parentis , and much more. After all, there’s no shortage of supply.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Carlos Galan Institution:  University of California, Riverside Graduate Program:   Ph.D., Galan’s dissertation, which he is scheduled to defend this summer, features interviews with 30 Latinx faculty on their experiences navigating tenure and promotion at a Hispanic Serving Institution.

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