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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...

These conversations, particularly around #MeToo and patriarchy, are important because we really need to consider what the steps are toward equity.

“I wish I were easygoing,” I say to my partner, as he drives our ancient, lumbering SUV, with a camper in tow, to the beach for spring break. It’s ...

Stephanie Briggs likes to move, and when she does, it's often to pave her own way. Briggs' higher education journey began at Howard University DC; ...

There was much media attention given to the Women's March on Washington in 2017 and the local marches across the nation and the globe. Over a year ...

When Dr. Keisha Blain signed the contract to release her first book, Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Struggle for Freedom (2...

It seems now that every few months there's another horrifying sexual assault scandal at a university. The latest, of course, is Michigan State Univ...

It was the tentative knock on my office door that made me realize something was wrong. It wasn't quite time for office hours, and students rarely s...

An assistant professor of management in the School of Business & Industry at Florida A&M University and a sought-after consultant for businesses, D...

Sitting in a home economics class in the sixth grade was the first time I realized that the clothes I wore were a problem. Our class was between pr...

With the goal of training teachers truly equipped to teach in urban schools, the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Rutgers University NJ has in...

In 2000, I left my tenure-track job for love, or so I thought. When love, or whatever it was, fell apart, I was homeless. Part of why I was vulnera...

This is the third piece in a series about activism in higher education. College campuses have always been a place of activism in its many forms. In...

In November 2017, I—along with more than 2,500 other attendees—showed up for the annual conference of the National Women's Studies Association (NWS...