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I study faculty, direct a university consortium, and reveal the known universe of #highered scholarship to people who never thought to ask. Trying to change a 19th century academy for a 21st century professoriate. Failing daily.
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ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Since the 1990s, Bolman & Deal have been at the heart of the curriculum at the Harvard Institutes on Higher Education (@harvardeducation.bsky.social). If your college admin, dean, provost, president has done MDP, MLE, IEM, they (should) speak these four frames!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

“Get involved. Do it today. Because you can’t hang out.” - Mary Woolley, president of @researchamerica.bsky.social, in a panel moderated by @holdenthorp.bsky.social at the @aaas.org meeting in Boston today.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

The ARC Network’s the 2025 ADVANCE Equity in STEM Community Convening has been canceled. www.equityinstem.org

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Republican students reporting "a lot of trust" in: 🎓Professors: 44% 👮Campus safety: 44% Republican students reporting "not much trust" in: 🎓Professors: 11% 👮Campus safety: 14% Story: www.insidehighered.com/news/student... Data tables: data.generationlab.org/InsideHigher...

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Jamie Kalven of @invisible.institute in the @chicagotribune.com on the 10th anniversary of the "Chicago Principles": www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/o...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

To America’s scientists: don’t leave, don’t resign. Your country needs you. You are the future.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

I read Gutkin's @chronicle.com piece, "Fierce Dispute Over DEI Among U. California Professors," but it seems to accept that if DEI is "affirmative action by another name" then it must be illegal/wrong. AA misrepresented is vilified but correctly enacted is policy. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

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“Unfortunately, we don’t often deal with accurate data. We deal with the perception of data.” - JC Burton, CEO of Maven Construction, Black woman-owned firm in Boston. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/27/b...

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Needed to find the "diversity is important" NIH page expressing the benefits of diversity, but it went 404 last week. Diversity matters: 📄Was here: extramural-diversity.nih.gov/diversity-ma... 📜Internet archive: web.archive.org/web/20250111...

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Invest in, reward faculty leadership: @drkalebbriscoe.bsky.social: “We’re looking at a very uphill climb of faculty having to take on more student affairs, diversity professional roles. Staff may not exist, but these student needs will have not changed.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

“[T]hat could delay grants being distributed, which affects the ability of labs to pay their students and postdocs and staff. In some cases, if there was a gap in funding, it could result in someone either not being hired at all or having to be laid off.” www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...

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Money quote: “Bishop added that he hoped next year, ‘the wealthy’ would ‘raise a few more smart kids!’” 💰 “¯\_(ツ)_/¯“ 💰

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In her @penngse.bsky.social #HigherEd Leadership Conference keynote, @saracuster.bsky.social names *collaboration* as the best, first answer to college leaders trying to prioritize in an age of multiple crises. What can be done better in partnership? See the members of www.national-acl.org.

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“…there are a lot of us in STEM fields who need to be thinking about our fields not as technical disciplines where problems need to be solved by any means at the students’ disposal, but as liberal arts where the path the student takes to the solution is as important as the solution itself.”

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Here we go again: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/10/b...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments