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On my desk is one of those clichéd felt boards with white plastic letters graced with inspirational quotes. Right now, my board reads, “Your silenc...

Data from the American Historical Society show that women now earn one‐half of the degrees awarded in history. But the discipline still has an outs...

Designed by Dr. Jeanne Houck , Sound Thinking NYC debuted in July 2018 with a cohort of 39 New York City 11th and 12th graders, selected from appli...

All of us at Women in Higher Education were saddened to learn that Dr. Ntozake Shange died on October 28th at the age of 70. We mourn her loss. To ...

Recently, my children asked to watch the original Ghostbusters (1984) because they both love the Ghostbusters reboot from two years ago. My kids re...

There is a popular belief in higher education that goes something like this: If students are not succeeding in college, it is due to their own lack...

I write about mental health on the internet. I do this writing to help destigmatize mental illness and also to help those who are like me live bett...

Almost two months ago, one of my former students emailed me to tell me how much my class—Apocalypses and American Religions—meant to him. It was a ...

Now in her third year as president of the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), Dr. Lynn Pasquerella brings not only an outstand...

The stories of Native Americans taught in history books are generally incomplete or full of half‐truths and myths. Shana Harming plans to right som...

In early July, NPR reported that the Trump administration rescinded Obama administration guidance “that encouraged schools and colleges to promote ...

A few months ago, I engaged in a job search that left me wondering which rules had changed and which remained the same. Here's one example: when I ...

On June 25, 2018, Andrea Pino , a first‐generation, queer, Cuban‐American college student who graduated from the University of North Carolina at Ch...

In the June issue of WIHE , I wrote an article about how to start a writing practice this summer. In part two of this special series, I've collecte...

“I think that's a problem you could solve.” That statement, shared with Campus Sonar founder Liz Gross as she described a challenge she'd come acro...

People keep asking me when I am going to write about #MeToo. They ask if I wrote about #MeToo in my recent book, Sexism Ed , but I didn't. They ask...

The dismal state of the academic labor market has been critiqued for years at this point. Those of us who began our doctorates before contingent la...

Giving the work of black writers exposure and sharing that literature has been a huge part of Dr. Brenda M. Greene 's life and career. A professor ...

“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” appear in the U.S. Declaration of Independence as “unalienable Rights,” the kind of rights that are su...

Retirement is about more than the numbers. Most women in higher education have kept abreast of their pension accounts and considered when to take S...