Academia

academic merit and moving beyond study into application. As Sheldrake emphasizes, maintaining a creative tension between the polarized ideas in all disciplines brings about the dialectical blend of academia and spirituality. The academic life of a university…

An important chapter in the history of academia is the entry of women as students, teachers, and researchers. This development reflects not only a change within academia, but a broader liberalization of American society that allowed women to take on a wider range of jobs and roles in the society. Although there has been a great deal of research addressing women in science, and the workplace more generally, relatively little research examines how women have become taste-makers or gate keepers.…

Academic Bias Bias in academia has been going on for years; this is an issue that does not seem to have an answer but argued all the time. Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City, made a commencement speech at Harvard’s 2014 spring graduation with an unexpected message; he claims that there is Liberal academia bias on college campuses and that this issue is not allowing their students to expand their thinking. Ron Christie, a government relations expert, wrote about Bloomberg’s speech…

Neoliberal Shift in Academia Since the 1980s and 1990s, globally there was a shift towards capitalism which paved the way for the emergence of neoliberalism in higher education (source). Initially, neoliberalism originated in the 1930s as an approach to re-dress the social and economic challenges after the Great Depression. It called for a free-market system that favoured free individual choices and optimal economic growth (source). Neoliberalism gained momentum throughout the 1970s and 1980s…

that depicts a large group representative of one social category while also depicting a single individual that represents another social category. The large group in this image illustrates the general concept of “college students” and the single individual depicts the general concept of “professor.” A professor is an individual with extensive credentials in a specific field of study, who has been certified to teach at the collegiate level and does so at a specific university or college. College…

All too frequently, individuals come across a situation in which puzzles them about what is to be required of them, what choices they should pursue when opportunities present themselves, and what is the difference between the formal rules put in place, in comparison to the real rules, in which they are expected to do their jobs (Geis and Dodge, 2002). In Lessons of Criminology, Geis and Dodge attempt to confront these potential issues for a newcomer who is interested in pursing the life of…

quite frankly anti-anything they have perviously experienced, well at least this how Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt view the current trend of the American university system. In a article they penned for the “The Atlantic” they would write a article titled “The Coddling of The American Mind” released in september of 2015 they at the time would highlight all the issues they felt had arisen from the growing trend of being politically correct in order to stave off any student feeling at odds…

management techniques and Gannt charts in particular has been a significant improvement in the management of my PhD and I suspect projects in the future. While I may have felt it was challenging to organise my work life balance, I found that new hobbies and time away from work make me more effective and ultimately allow me to produce better results. This is something I am taking away in the future. c. Professional and career management Throughout the PhD I have been looking for both continuing…

as moral distress. Ganske (2010) suggests that NEs should be encouraged to recognize the symptoms associated with stressful situations, like incivility, as moral distress. The author identified a study that spoke to a divide between the college administrators’ expectations for a full classroom of nursing students versus placing only the best students in the seats (Ganske, 2010). The tuition received from these students is important to the institution, but NEs are often blamed when poor…

achievements and this influence the budget distribution to favor academic achievements. From the budget table in 2016 and 2017, academic activities are detailed, “aids for learning” are repeated. “Providing better teaching quality” lists on the top. Comparing to other goals that unclearly described in “cultivating students’ multiple skills,” learning resources are shown in detail, from the administration of student learning center to hardware renewals in classrooms to financial aids for…