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Dr. Jerome Morris Elected Next AERA President, Continuing Legacy of Black Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Morris's scholarly contributions include his latest book, Central City's Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project , which combines historical analysis with memoir to document residents' efforts to sustain their community despite housing and educational inequities.

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UW-Madison's Black Males in Engineering Video Series Wins Prestigious Telly Award 

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The Black Males in Engineering (BME) video series, led by UW-Madison School of Education faculty member Dr. Brian Burt, recently received a Silver Telly Award in the Campaign – Education & Training category.

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Building an Academic Space for Black Women Scholars

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In graduate school, we began exchanging documents for awards, fellowships, grants, and other opportunities and we realized that while our research was separate, it was also complementary, allowing us to strengthen each others applications. asked Samuel.

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Federal Court Blocks Education Department's Diversity Directive, Marking Victory for Academic Freedom Advocates

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The February directive had sent shockwaves through higher education institutions across the country, with many administrators and faculty expressing concern that their diversity programs could trigger federal funding cutoffs.

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HBCU Leaders Gather to Create Blueprint for Future of Higher Education

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We call that document a blueprint, said Felton. She has aspirations of joining the faculty ranks at an HBCU someday. Numerous corporate sponsors, including Sodexo Magic, which sponsored meals throughout the week helped make the convening possible and subsidized attendance costs. Felton asked attendees.

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Business and Health Professions Lead Faculty Growth as Humanities Decline, CUPA-HR Report Finds

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The report, "Two Decades of Change: Faculty Discipline Trends in Higher Education," analyzes data from CUPA-HR's Faculty in Higher Education Survey from 2003-04 to 2023-24, revealing significant shifts in faculty size, tenure status, and salaries across academic disciplines. Business also showed robust growth of 20.8%

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Authorship for post/PhDers – the problem of gift authorship

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Senior faculty members should be named as co-authors on work independently generated by their junior colleagues only if they have made substantial intellectual contributions to the experimental design, interpretation of findings and manuscript preparation. I would also take the precaution of documenting everything.