Ghanaian traditional gender norms are the main barrier to Ghanaian women pursuing academic careers.
Teachers and university professors have relied heavily on ‘one and done’ essay assignments for decades. Requiring students to submit drafts of their work is one needed shift.
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Despite being the subject of criticism and negative news, business schools do a lot of good for society, a veteran business professor explains in a new book.
The gender pay gap for faculty in Canadian universities is significant and persistent.
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Over the course of a career and retirement, gender pay gaps lead to a difference of roughly half-a-million dollars for women professors relative to their male counterparts.
Researchers in a survey said they don’t want to delay their tenure review but have the criteria for it shift.
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Faculty in a cross-country survey recommended modifying metrics used to gauge productivity to account for the differential impacts of the pandemic on women and racialized faculty.
What hapens when someone outside of the university community co-ordinates a mass email campaign demanding the firing of a faculty member? University policies need to cover this.
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Where policies do address online abuse and harassment, they’re largely ineffective in a world where academics engage with people in a variety of public platforms and through social media.
Black and Hispanic business school professors are few in number.
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Transparent selection processes and merit should be emphasised more in appointing vice-chancellors in Nigerian universities.
A cross-Canada survey of university faculty found 68 per cent of females, compared with 32 per cent of males, reported family caregiver challenges in the pandemic.
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The pandemic has negatively affected female and racialized faculty. Universities need to make sure their career advancement doesn’t suffer.
Non-academic mentors, especially those familiar with the culture of academia, can offer empathy, validation and healthy perspectives.
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The realities of the job market mean most PhD students no longer work alongside people whose professional paths they will follow. Universities must do more to support non-academic mentorships.
A communication studies professor purposefully antagonizes students to show how putdowns and other forms of negative criticism can impact student learning.
Public university professors enjoy great protections when it comes to free speech.
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Despite calls for their ouster, public university professors who utter offensive things enjoy free speech protection. But a scholar argues for another way to respond to what those professors say.
Though challenges like dyslexia can make learning difficult, these disabilities shouldn’t define who you are – or what you can do.
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The story of a six-year-old boy with dyslexia who, with support from friends and teachers, became a successful professor. Now he teaches teachers how to help children like him.