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A refreshing and enlightening read for those of us aspiring to a position in Academia, whether tenure track or not! "The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life" https://lnkd.in/eUFQ54R3

Check it out: FIU was ranked #3 in public universities and #16 overall on Washington Monthly's 2024 National University Rankings list. See it here: https://buff.ly/3Xiw0mM #FIU #FIUPIR #politics #internationalrelations #politicalscience #universityrankings #collegerankings

Big thanks to Professor Susan Orr, Professor Sherria Hoskins and Professor Julian Chaudhuri for joining me to offer perspectives on what matters as we work to secure teaching excellence. Watch the conversation below 👇 #highered #education #teachingexcellence #leadership

Focusing on a community college, Dawn Wood, PhD shares evidence that low-income, first-generation, technical, and/or rural students are indeed likely to participate in education abroad opportunities. More in this special section contribution: https://lnkd.in/d6gTV9eZ

Today we are highlighting the final sections of the conference formats available, while all underneath the general topic of undergraduate experiences, they focus on specific scholarship areas. The first section for today is Undergraduate Students: Access. Proposals may address barriers and/or promising practices in relation to undergraduate student access; how access is or is not actualized in relation to ongoing manifestations of systemic oppression and power; the role of multiple/overlapping policies (e.g., sociopolitical, regional, state, campus-specific) on undergraduate student access. Led by Section Co-Chairs Awilda Rodriguez, Ph.D. and Lydia Ross, here’s a quick tip you should know about submissions for this section. “Broadening our understanding of how individuals access higher education is important as we develop promising practices and continue to identify systemic and other barriers.” - Lydia Ross, Section Co-Chair

The University of Kentucky climbed several spots in national higher education rankings for research and development (R&D) expenditures.  Based on UK’s $476.5 million in research expenditures – the funds the university spent to conduct research in fiscal year 2022, as reported to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics: - UK ranks 61st among 637 public and private universities in the United States, up from 64th in FY21.  - UK ranks 40th among 410 public universities, up from 43rd in FY21.  - UK ranks 5th out of 14 Southeastern Conference (SEC) institutions. https://lnkd.in/gt3HeTKT

"As someone who started over two decades ago with a small departmental Research Experiences for Undergraduates program and then moved to open a campus-wide office at a Hispanic Serving Institution, working on COEUR 2.0 has been an extremely validating experience. It allowed me to team up with and hear from multiple contributors who have experienced firsthand the positive impact that undergraduate research, scholarly and creative inquiry continues to have at the national level on students from diverse backgrounds, with different academic and career interests, and from the full spectrum of higher education institutions. This richness of experiences and recommendations shared by program directors, mentors, evaluators, higher administrators and students will serve to inspire not only those who are starting to develop programs at their institutions, but also the more seasoned individuals who could in turn serve as allied voices to agencies, foundations, donors, and others at the state and federal levels." Learn more about the Characteristics of Excellence in Undergraduate Research 2.0 at 

See our new research about the effect of undergraduate research in different disciplinary contexts! Hong, X., Gao, X., Coates, H., & Guo, F. (2023). Undergraduate research and students’ learning outcomes: digging into different disciplinary contexts. Higher Education Research & Development, 1-17.

Check my recent published JARCC article with Dr. matt witenstein Journal of #AppliedResearch in the #CommunityCollege! You can find it at https://lnkd.in/g5UVVb6m

When is Justice Transformative? ⚖️ At our DIT Day conference "How to transform a university", Ana Vasques and Agni Kalfagianni will host a roundtable discussion on this topic. This roundtable aims to explore what a transformative research justice agenda looks like, which societal actors are likely to support it, and how to organize transformative justice initiatives in practice. The roundtable involves speakers from different perspectives to discuss the following questions: 🟢 What issues of injustice are at play in your area of work/research? 🟢 Which are the responses to these injustices (if any), who supports them, and how would you distinguish their transformative justice potential? 🟢 What does a transformative justice research agenda mean for you? 🟢 Which are inspiring ways for universities to (co)organize/support justice initiatives that can transform politics, societies, and the university itself? If you're interested then join us on June 4th - sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gXFMBriy Alessandra Arcuri, Daphina Misiedjan, Ph.D., Danny Vader, Hélène Van Engelen