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Tag: Disciplines
Faculty & Staff
Authorship: The Elephant in the Room
When it comes to tenure-track faculty positions, and pursuing tenure altogether, there’s no doubt that one item stands above all others: Research. Even in the field of higher education, a field that is supposed to critically reflect on the issues of the academy, including the shortcomings of tenure processes, our programs still emphasize the same flawed indicators: Research -> Publications -> Authorship.
March 4, 2020
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Study: Racial Discipline Disparities and Academic Achievement Gaps are Connected
National data shows consistent correlation between discipline disparities and academic achievement gaps for African-American students.
October 18, 2019
Faculty & Staff
Attracting Native Americans to Academe: A ‘Business’ Model
Outside of tribal colleges, Native American student representation in four-year colleges is appallingly low—0.9 percent. It is even lower, 0.5 percent, at the graduate level.
January 28, 2016
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Foundation, Universities Announce $100M for Brain Research
The Kavli Foundation and three universities are committing $100 million for neuroscience research and plan to launch three institutes to bring together researchers from different disciplines to investigate the workings of the brain.
October 1, 2015
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Rethinking the Role of College Career Centers for Humanities Graduates
Why do liberal arts graduates, especially humanities majors, suffer from inaccurate and inconsistent portrayals of their attractiveness to employers?
April 14, 2014
Students
Elite California Universities Partner to Recruit Minorities in STEM
The California Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities entering the postdoctoral and faculty ranks in STEM disciplines at top-tier universities, starting with its first retreat April 4-5.
March 24, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student
Fort Valley State University, a state and land-grant institution of the University System of Georgia, seeks an experienced financial administrator to serve as Vice President for Business and Finance. Reporting to the President, the Vice President for Business and Finance is the University’s chief fiscal officer and provides strategic and tactical leadership.
August 27, 2013
Students
Educators Discuss Creating an Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ Students
The “Expanding the Circle” summer institute offered best practices and initiatives in academia and student affairs for LGBTQ students.
June 30, 2013
STEM
Link Diversity to Workforce Needs
While committed to increasing diversity among students, the higher ed community largely has failed to align those initiatives with specific workforce needs.
May 23, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Biology Professor Named Project Kaleidoscope Director
Biology professor Kelly Mack was appointed to serve as executive director of Project Kaleidoscope — an initiative that focuses on building strong undergraduate programs in the STEM fields.
September 24, 2012
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Helping Nurture STEM Talent Inspires Harvard Administrator
Native American scholar learned a great deal from his mother, whom he describes as an ethnobotanist who was able to identify and collect plants to use as food and medicine for her children and the family’s animals.
February 21, 2011
African-American
Opinion: Ethnic Studies is Valuable for All Americans
Contrary to the fears and charges that ethnic studies divides and incites the overthrow of our government, it attempts to critically examine the nexus of events, peoples and consequences of actions by individuals, states and the nation itself.
May 20, 2010
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