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APRIL 20, 2023

Federal support, funding opportunities, and advice were the topics of discussion at a Virginia Union University (VUU) webinar about STEM research at Historically Black colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Moore listed numerous NSF scholarships and programs beneficial to HBCU research in fields including STEM, data science, and computing.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Esther Jones Dr. Esther Jones has been named associate dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University. Before her latest post, Jones served in various leadership capacities including as an associate provost in the Office of Faculty Affairs at Clark University.

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MAY 3, 2024

New research from CUPA-HR on the state of the faculty workforce in higher education shows that despite some growth in representation among tenure-track women and faculty of color in new hires, advancement to higher faculty ranks remains a barrier.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Prior to joining Spelman, Lynch served as the Curator of the Moving Image & Recorded Sound Division of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for over 10 years. Put another way, I want to produce and empower a legion of Black women storytellers.”

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Ebony McGee To explore these questions, we published, Factors Contributing to Black Engineering and Computing Faculty’sPathways Toward University Administration and Leadership , where we interviewed 21 Black engineering and computing faculty members who transitioned into administrative leadership roles in their colleges and universities.

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MARCH 29, 2023

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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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Morgan State University and the State of Maryland are establishing a new Center for Urban and Coastal Climate Science Research to address the issue of climate change. It represents one of the “Peaks of Excellence” recommended by a Blue-Ribbon Panel on STEM Research Expansion. and beyond through research, education, and public service.

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APRIL 4, 2023

The fellows – 20 CUNY Graduate Center doctoral student fellows and 45 faculty fellows – will be affiliated with CUNY’s BRES Collaboration Hub and will do research and create curricula to improve Black, race, and ethnic studies at CUNY. Doctoral fellows will receive $4,000 stipends for dissertation research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A brand-new video series that highlights the diverse experiences of Black boys and men in the science, technology, engineering and mathematic (STEM) fields, has launched under the direction of a prominent researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Brian A.

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MARCH 29, 2023

The Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College hosted its first Spring Symposium addressing health issues for African American men. Taken place at the Atlanta University Center’s Woodruff’s Library, the “Changing the Paradigm” symposium began its two-day conference with a discussion on mental health. Dr. Walter M.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 20, 2024

Reprinted with permission. Background As faculty, our (Assif and Kim) collaboration started during COVID. These five students, including Sonya Ho (a coauthor of this article), received research-assistant pay during the first two months and continued their work on a volunteer basis for the rest of the academic year.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Non-degree certificate programs at the graduate level are rarely researched, an issue that the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) aimed to address with the release of its new report. CGS researchers focused on examining microcredentials that are credit-bearing, are documented on academic transcripts, and require bachelor’s degrees.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

An internal audit of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) has found no issues with the handling of CAR’s finances, according to the school. Kendi announced the laying off of 19 people, in doing so prompting outside questions about the center’s grant management and why it had not completed more research with its funding.

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The Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Katie Morales , Tanner Health System School of Nursing University of West Georgia Cindy Johnson , Tanner Health System School of Nursing University of West Georgia Key Statement: Reflection can create connection and caring between faculty and students, enhance learning and success, and promote collaborative professional encounters.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

On Wednesday, AAUP renewed their call to colleges and universities to fund and protect research and teaching that addresses social inequity and the needs of historically underrepresented groups.

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DECEMBER 15, 2024

A growing number of faculty say that they find it difficult to have an open and honest conversation on campus about at least one hot button political topic and fear being disciplined for their teaching, research, academic discussions, or off-campus speech.

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The Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cavazos , The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Ryan McBride , The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Key Statement: Student-faculty partnerships can foster asset-based approaches in teaching and learning that challenge implicit linguistic bias and enhance students’ linguistically diverse resources. 2024; Cook-Sather, 2020).

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

At a European research institute, the only Black female researcher was included in every possible photo, even when the subject of the photo opportunity was unrelated to her area of expertise. where harassment reporting mechanisms often fail to protect Black faculty. academics in various stages of their careers. “The

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JULY 29, 2024

His plans for the center include helping to advance African and African American studies as a discipline and to create a more substantial intellectual community through interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, students, and the local community. “Dr. Darius Young is a transformational leader, thought partner, and historian.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

The research is rich and ever-manifesting on college campuses for McMickens, an associate professor of higher education and the director of the M.S.Ed. The research question is a primary mode of inquiry for him. “My This arm of my research agenda is aimed at understanding how campus cultures, campus climates, and campus actors (e.g.,

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Kellogg faculty have for decades been driving advances in conflict resolution, negotiation and how to bridge ideological divides. The center’s cornerstone is a research program to identify strategies and policies that foster productive dialogue across diverse perspectives to drive successful outcomes. Francesca Cornelli.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Before then, she held a faculty appointment as a research associate in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Brown-Hughes joined the university from Hampton University School of Pharmacy, where she served as an associate professor.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. Her research has been cited in more than 9,000 published studies. She will replace Dr. Shaun R.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In an Inside Higher Ed/Hanover Research survey conducted shortly before the election, over 90 percent of faculty strongly or somewhat agreed that academic freedom is under threat. Throw in those who say they somewhat agree it’s under threat, and the share grows to 91 percent.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Yale University has pledged $10 million toward an initiative to strengthen its relationship with historically Black colleges and universities in the realm of research, teaching, and student access. Dr. Peter Salovey The initiative is part of a redress following Yale President Dr. Peter Salovey and Senior Trustee Josh Bekenstein’s Feb.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you focus on minoritized populations, there’s a lack of understanding about why this research is relevant,” she says. Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Hall began hosting bi-weekly bonfires in her backyard for her fellow new hires and other young faculty.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Fielding Graduate University Taylor was a national leader on issues of diversity and inclusion in higher education, particularly those relating to access and equity, preparing the next generation of researchers and faculty members in the nation’s colleges and universities. campus of the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

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MAY 22, 2024

She presented her research on leadership and educational trends at national conferences, contributed to over 20 publications in national journals, encyclopedias, and books, and served on multiple boards and committees.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

SREB officials point out that faculty of color– especially in leadership positions – are still underrepresented in comparison to the racial and ethnic diversity of the students they teach. For instance, nationwide, only about 6% of faculty are Black, just over 5% are Hispanic or Latino and only about 1% are Native American.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. These findings are just some in a field ripe with research opportunity, said Jang-Tucci. Critical self-reflection is a radical form of resistance.”

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Reddick, University of Texas at Austin Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Make your career journey what you want it to be and don’t wait for others to define it for you.” with a desire to delve into research on the issues he’d seen firsthand. Otherwise, the research becomes irrelevant.” Dr. Victor B.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Jackson – an urban researcher, media ethnographer, anthropologist of religion, and theorist of race/ethnicity – is currently the dean at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication and serves as the Richard Perry University Professor and is on the faculty at Penn’s Center for Experimental Ethnography. Jackson, Jr. Dr. John L.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Research on gateway math as a barrier has mostly focused on students—their demographic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, and high school grades. Using this data, the researchers performed calculations to find out which factors were responsible for differences in student performance. What they found was striking.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

“As a servant leader, I am confident I will be an effective president for the University of the Virgin Islands and will remain humble and grounded with a sincere desire to improve outcomes and the lives of students, faculty, staff, and the community.” in nursing research from Emory University. We are thrilled to have Dr.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

We’re going to produce — and it’s happening now — graduates in critical areas at the research level, at the workforce level, in ways that are meeting critical needs particularly of talent,” says Dr. Tonya L. At present, none of the nation’s 101 HBCUs has Research 1 status, which refers to doctoral universities with high research activity.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. In many units, the scholarship alone or largely determines whether the faculty member receives a favorable evaluation.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The money will go toward creating endowed chairs and supporting research opportunities at the school’s Institute of American Cultures (IAC) and its four ethnic studies research centers. For faculty members, holding an endowed chair is often considered the highest honor that you can have as a professor,” Yoo said.

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