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Breaking Bread in Communities of Learners

The Scholarly Teacher

Paul Vivian Johnson , Hamline University Key Statement: This article reports on a relationship between two social justice professors who shared stories of battle fatigue and, in doing so, supported each other in avoiding burnout. Unfortunately, burnout is frequent in this work when confronted with faculty and learner pushback.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This requires intentionality and assessing all aspects to safeguard what is best about higher education: students, faculty, and staff who are different but learning, disagreeing, and growing for the betterment of society and self.” As Dr. Johnnetta B.

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Remembering Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (1952-2023)

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Al Sharpton has become the lightning rod in moving Obama’s agenda forward,” Ogletree said in a 2010 interview “And he has access to both the streets and the suites, to make sure that the people who are voiceless, faceless and powerless finally have some say.” A native of Merced, Calif., Ogletree was the oldest of seven siblings. Ogletree, Jr.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Established 53 years ago and built on principles of social justice, AAP’s mission is to create and administer innovative academic programs for students historically underrepresented in higher education. AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Newson-Horst is a Spelman graduate who was impacted by Guy-Sheftall and other Spelman faculty who inspired her to take on similar challenges. Courses were developed by various faculty members as far back as 2012, but the process stalled for several years until White stepped up and took the reins. “We and globally.

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Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

SRHE

They are both based in the School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. The fieldwork for this project involved a search of the literature on ancillary staff in HE and other sectors and some observations of the working environment of ancillary staff. She blogs here.

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Fun and games – nurturing students’ ‘being’

SRHE

In our changing world, with elevated awareness of issues such as climate change, sustainability, social justice and EDI, this tendency towards the personal skills should come as no surprise. It isn’t far-fetched to imagine faculty declaring ‘we’re not here to teach them to be self-aware’.