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Paradigm Shift: DEI, Anti-DEI, or Underrepresentation?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014). It was important that the conversation focus on the demographics that are represented on boards of trustees who, in turn, are responsible for setting policy and reinforcing institutional culture. in press, p.

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Francisco Tapia Salinas: The Artist Who Set Chile’s Student Debt Ablaze

Higher Education Inquirer

Tapias unconventional path led him to become an internationally recognized artist, but it was his provocative 2014 performance piece, Ad Augusta per Augusta ("To the Elevated by the Difficult"), that catapulted him to fame and solidified his place in the global art scene. You dont have to pay another peso of your student loan debt.

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Changing the Face of Nursing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the summer of 2014, Crystal Jackson was working as a manager of nurse education in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael Brown, a Black teenager, had been fatally shot by a white police officer, and the city was on fire. It never did. It’s traumatic. I have sons,” says Jackson. Although Jackson was in a leadership role, it was her first.

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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

SRHE

I’m also saying this as someone who’s curated several, including one on running as an arts and humanities discourse that a 2014 Guardian article said ‘other conferences could take a leaf out of’, for its 8-minute sprint formats and multi-modal approaches including film screening, meditation sessions and run-chats. Run with it.

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Effect of Institutional Autonomy on Academic Freedom in Higher Education Institutions in Ghana

SRHE

1972) Academic Freedom and Social Responsibility: The Tasks of Universities in a Changing World, Stephen Kertesz (Ed), Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press. Zulu, C (2016) Gender equity and equality in higher education leadership: Whats social justice and substantive equality got to do with it? Perspectives: Nicol, D.

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Success Story: Wesleyan University

Via's

When Emily arrived at the private liberal arts university in January 2015, the study abroad office was using a “homegrown” software system developed by an employee in their IT department. “It It was actually really good, and he was very skilled at building it—but he was so good he was one of the most sought-after people on campus,” Emily recalls.

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The Dangers of Dogmatism

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Himself a program alumnus, he was eager to repeat a successful seminar that he had offered in 2014 on ”Race and the Limits of Law in America” in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the nation’s ongoing reckoning over persistent racial inequalities.