‘Perfect 10’ wariness reveals gender bias in student evaluations
Times Higher Education
Switching to a six-point scale in surveys eliminates perceived gap in teaching performance, study finds.
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Foreign academics ‘less likely’ to speak up for academic freedom
Times Higher Education
Scholar warns that rising numbers of international university staff in Singapore could ‘make the academy more conservative’.
Australian universities trial ‘respectful relationships’ training
Times Higher Education
The online training is a response to growing concerns about sexual abuse on campuses.
President's Book, Blackface and Campus Culture
Inside Higher Ed
Leader of a Canadian university upsets some students and professors with analysis of blackface incidents in higher education.
Black female academics in UK ‘face pervasive bullying’
Times Higher Education
Unsupportive senior staff and ‘unjust’ promotion practices are major problems reported by black female professors, says equity researcher
Black female professors must deal with bullying to win promotion
The Guardian
Those surveyed said they were systematically overlooked for promotion and mistaken for clerical staff.
Universities must do more to tackle ethnic disparity
Gov.uk
The Government has launched measures to drive change in tackling inequalities between ethnic groups in higher education.
Speak Softly… or at Least Speak English
Inside Higher Ed
Policing international students’ speech and threatening them with discrimination for speaking their own language is abhorrent, writes Susan D. Blum.
CVs and interviews axed as universities ‘de-bias’ recruitment
Times Higher Education
Recruiter and ex-Sussex chair Simon Fanshawe aims to tackle biases around gender, ethnicity and university background.
Working class ‘increasingly excluded’ from German academia
Times Higher Education
Since the 1970s, an increasingly competitive job market has come to advantage the already privileged.
Foreigners dominating growth in doctorates Down Under
Times Higher Education
Failure to recruit local PhDs will erode Australia’s skill base, report warns.
An Overlooked Solution for Diversifying STEM
Inside Higher Ed
Colleges can dramatically improve success rates of low-income, first-generation students by working across units, argue Adrianna Kezar and Elizabeth Holcombe.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Identity
Inside Higher Ed
Our dominant mental model of identity is not only wrong, it hurts minorities.
Opinion: In Defense of Diversity Statements
The Chronicle of Higher Education
They are morally necessary, Charlotte M. Canning and Richard J. Reddick write.
French female recruitment quotas backfire after male ‘backlash’
Times Higher Education
Having more women on appointment committees has dramatically cut the number of female academics getting hired, according to analysis.
A just future for #MeToo starts with supporting sexuality research
Times Higher Education
The stigma and fear of sexuality research must change if it is to inform any legal reform that comes in the wake of the #MeToo movement.