Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement

Over the coming months, the cohort will form a community of practice to share lessons and develop models that can be adapted across the broader higher education landscape.

Learn more: ma3challenge.org

#HigherEd #OpenScience #ResearchImpact #AcademicReform [5/5]

Board approves consent agenda, academic program changes and an endowed‑chair appointment The Board approved routine consent items including Grambling State University’s College of Business renaming, several program terminations and a new 36‑hour master's in architecture at LSU A&M, and affirmed a non‑search appointment to a $1 million endowed chair at the University of New Orleans.

Big changes are coming to Louisiana's higher education landscape, including a new name for Grambling State's College of Business and a fresh master's program at LSU A&M!

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The debate tackles systemic vs. individual responsibility for misconduct. While blameless post-mortems are useful, they may not always lead to effective remediation, leaving a gap in addressing individual accountability. #AcademicReform 5/5

A crucial long-term solution is to reevaluate academic incentives. Shifting focus from prioritizing publication quantity to emphasizing quality could significantly reduce pressure, fostering more diligent and ethical research. #AcademicReform 6/6

Our Head of Client Excellence Ranwa AbdulRazzaq recently attended SAFIERR | Syrian Academic Forum for Innovation, Education, Research and Reform in Damascus.

#SAFIERR #HigherEducation #Research #Innovation #AcademicReform #GlobalEducation #Collaboration

How Patronage Weakens Pakistan’s Universities And Why It Must End Patronage and loyalty dominate Pakistan’s universities, stifling merit, eroding credibility, and fuelling brain drain over genuine reform

Patronage and loyalty overshadow merit in Pakistan’s universities, eroding academic integrity and stifling innovation.
By Dr. Noreen Saher

Read more: thefridaytimes.com/16-Aug-2025/...

#highereducation #Pakistan #patronage #universities #academicreform #braindrain #meritocracy #education

UNAM Streamlines Degrees to Boost Graduate Prospects In a major academic reform, the University of Namibia has transitioned to a three-year undergraduate degree structure, moving away from the four-year honours format. The move, implemented in 2023, aligns...

#UNAM #HigherEducation #UniversityOfNamibia #GraduateProspects #AcademicReform

Louisiana legislature amends student assessment standards in Senate Bill 246 Senate Bill 246 updates standards for state assessments in English, math, science, and social studies

Louisiana's Senate Bill 246 is set to revolutionize how students are assessed in core subjects like English, math, science, and social studies!

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#LA #CitizenPortal #AssessmentStandards #LouisianaEducation #AcademicReform #StudentSuccess

School Board approves flexible day program to aid student credit recovery Board unanimously approves flexible school day program for Crossroads Academy to enhance student outcomes.

Uvalde CISD just approved a groundbreaking program to help students recover credits and prevent dropouts, paving the way for a brighter academic future!

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We must move beyond awareness to institutional action:

🔍 Annual anonymous surveys
🚫 Remove harassers from leadership
📣 Center survivors in policy design

#Neuroscience #EquityInAcademia #GenderEquity #AcademicReform

The current model hides key contributions: advice, method design, raw data, interim analysis, negative results. It also discourages collaboration, limits reproducibility, and excludes those who don’t fit the "paper author" mold. #AcademicReform #OpenResearch

Open access is a step, but not the destination. Paywalls are a symptom. The real issues? Perverse incentives, exclusion, opacity, and profit-driven publishing. Reform means rethinking the whole system. #OpenAccess #OpenScience #AcademicReform

@drheaddamage I agree with supporting scientists with decent salaries, but we're missing something: Academia asks faculty to sign countless statements, including DEI ones. Why not also require a "when I know it's time to move on" statement in interviews? #AcademicReform

Academic fraud in AI research: A controversial take on using explicit fraud to expose systemic issues
jacobbuckman.com/2021-05-29-please-commit...
#academicintegrity #airesearch #scientificethics #researchculture #academicreform

Books – Center for a Public Anthropology

What if we evaluated scholars not by their publication count, but by their contribution to solving social problems? #AcademicReform #academia

www.publicanthropology.org/books/

Academic Abuse | Data and Resources to Disrupt College Harassment, Bullying, and Misconduct At Academic Abuse, learn to identify, prevent, and conquer academic injustice, including: power imbalances, discrimination, plagiarism, harassment, bullying, retaliation, sexual misconduct, and more.

😅 Ever felt like academia’s only reward is a 3 a.m. existential crisis? If you’ve been there, let’s talk about it— #EndAcademicAbuse #EduSky #PhDSky #BlackEduSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #FeministSky #MeTooPhD #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpAcademia #TimesUpHigherEd #AcademicReform

🪻YAS!!!🪻I’m so excited to read these!!

Maybe an indie dissertation?

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Academic Abuse | Data and Resources to Disrupt College Harassment, Bullying, and Misconduct At Academic Abuse, learn to identify, prevent, and conquer academic injustice, including: power imbalances, discrimination, plagiarism, harassment, bullying, retaliation, sexual misconduct, and more.

🌎 80 new stories just dropped in the last 2 days! 🌍

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Is there any alternative to the gamification of academic metrics? Drawing on discussions with academics who have oriented their work around public engagement and social impact, Daniel Pearson suggests these academics present an opportunity to rethink the existing…

Excessive self-citation, citation cartels, coercive citations, a citation black market, and more.

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This story didn't make it into my dashboard (thanks to limited RSS alerts), but it is an important one!

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Academic Abuse | Data and Resources to Disrupt College Harassment, Bullying, and Misconduct At Academic Abuse, learn to identify, prevent, and conquer academic injustice, including: power imbalances, discrimination, plagiarism, harassment, bullying, retaliation, sexual misconduct, and more.

🌍 Total news stories for today have increased to 30! 🌍

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✨ If you could change one thing about academia to make it a safer, more supportive space for students and staff, what would it be? Your voice matters, and your ideas inspire change. 💡
#EduSky #PhDSky #PhDChat #MeTooPhD #EndAcademicAbuse #HigherEd #TimesUpAcademia #TimesUpHigherEd #AcademicReform

Call to action: Support university led, non-profit journals. Reform of evaluation metrics. Return control to universities.

Science belongs to humanity, not shareholders. Join the movement for fair academic publishing." #ScienceForAll #AcademicReform

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