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Are We Pressuring Students to Choose a Hostile STEM?
I've recently had a nagging feeling, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, that we still haven’t figured out how to ask students: Do you, in fact, want a life in STEM?
A Diversity and Inclusion Statement for Liberal Studies
Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt offers a satirical view.
Navigating the Dialectic of Privilege and Oppression
Jennifer M. Gómez writes of her tendency as a new faculty member of color to highlight the systemic wrongs she's experienced while ignoring the potential for change her position now allows.
Retaining Faculty of Color: Costs and Consequences
Michael Johnson Jr. provides some concrete suggestions for how institutions can improve their campus climate and quality of life for such faculty.
5 Tips for Creating a Productive Writing Group
Thomas Seweid-DeAngelis describes how to go about building and maintaining a successful one for graduate students.
There Has to Be a Better Way
Must mandatory diversity and antiharassment trainings consistently conjure up dread, sarcasm and contempt? Deborah J. Cohan suggests some improvements.
How to Navigate an Academic Conference
Victoria Reyes offers three tips that can ease any anxiety you may have and help you get the most out of attending one.
Stifling the Seedling’s Growth
The Thirty Meter Telescope project at Mauna Kea raises questions about what we truly mean when we say we engage in “ethical and moral” research, argues Amanda R. Tachine.