By: Joshua Anzaldúa, M.S.W., University of Texas at San Antonio During the first two years of my doctoral program, I noticed a strong push of programs, departments, and scholars vested in bringing social justice work to their universities/colleges, departments, and…
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By: Ezinne Ofoegbu, North Carolina State University I have a love/hate relationship with conference season. On one hand, attending conferences provides time to reconnect with my scholar-friends, build new connections, and stay current on higher education research. On the other…
By: Bo-Kyung Byun, Seoul National University I had the opportunity to visit a few conferences in Japan and China during my master’s, and distinctly remember being surprised by how incredibly similar they were in overall atmosphere to those held in…
Read More ASHE Through the Looking Glass: Comparing Academic Conferences in the U.S. and Korea
By: Kate Antanovich, Pennsylvania State University The question of ethics. I have recently had to do an assignment for my qualitative research class, a research design mockup: rationale, problem statement, data collection methods... As I went down section by section…
By: Natalie Cruz, Old Dominion University All of our lives were upended in minor and major ways in March when the COVID-19 pandemic began to affect the United States. No sector of our society has been untouched, particularly higher education.…
By: Jillian Ives, University of Connecticut As a professional academic advisor, I often heard students complain when instructors were ‘too political’ in their teaching, and rumors of instructors who received these kinds of student complaints in their evaluations being pushed…
By: Selyna Beverly, University of Michigan “You better get your PhD soon otherwise you will never do it when you have kids. I know so many women that have quit.” I remember hearing these words from a man who was…
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By: Mayra Puente, University of California, San Diego I am a 2019 Ford Predoctoral Fellow. As a first-generation Mexicana from a rural, farm working background, I never imagined that my scholarship would be recognized by a national academy like the…
Read More Drawing on Your Cultural Intuition and Promoting the Real You in Fellowship Applications
By: Ashley N. Robinson, University of Connecticut As a labor organizer in higher education spaces, one of the biggest challenges that I have faced is helping student affairs educators and educational researchers break down insidious messages about burnout as being…
Read More It’s Not Just You: Engaging Self-Care as Collective Action
By: Quortne Hutchings, Loyola University Chicago In July 2019, I submitted my 10-week writing exam for my doctoral program in higher education. Now that my writing exam is over, I have done some much-needed reflection on things I learned about…
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