9 Black women who were working on or recently earned their PhDs told a researcher they felt isolated and shut out.
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The active and uninhibited dissemination of knowledge is vital for the advancement of knowledge.
Like students, academics from working-class backgrounds may also prefer not to work at elite universities.
Not only do some countries perpetrate direct attacks on students and academics but the internationalisation of higher education has also created new global threats.
Despite the hard evidence of the excellent benefits of gender, racial and other diversity on research teams, public criticism on the benefits of equity and diversity programs still exists.
Academics are getting out of touch with the rest of society. This helps explains the sorry state of our public discourse on science.
The American Sociological Association is starting a conversation to include “public communication” – work often largely ignored – in the assessment of a scholar’s contributions. Why does it matter?
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Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Public Engagement Project, UMass Amherst
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Vice-president, Research Programs
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Professor of Law, King's College London
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Vice-Provost (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion), and Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary
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Professor of Modern China Studies, Lund University
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Program Manager at the Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching, Macalester College
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Professor and Holder of the South African Research Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa
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Lecturer in the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bradford