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A few months ago, I had a video call with a physician's assistant. I had called a bit frantically days before. I couldn't fall asleep at all or I w...

It seems improbable that a storied Black institution had not previously had an African American professor in its computer science and engineering d...

My initial introduction to imposter syndrome was through my work with first‐generation students. The more I learned about how imposter syndrome, of...

I'm angry. Again. I'm trying to answer the emails that overflow my inbox and convince a first grader to please for the love of all that is good and...

Necessity is often the mother of a creative invention. When COVID‐19 hit college classrooms in March 2020, faculty, administrators and students scr...

It was in the early weeks of the COVID‐19 lockdown that Charlotte stopped writing her dissertation. “Our family had been separated,” she says, “I l...

In the late afternoon on Jan. 6, an email landed in my inbox. I didn't notice it at first. My eyes had been glued to Twitter and various news sites...

The election of Howard University DC alumna Kamala Harris to the office of Vice President of the United States has put a spotlight on the historica...

A pandemic era is a difficult time for educators who have no interest in teaching in an online environment. My intention is not to persuade instruc...

Public engagement is often an indicator of prestige and impact for both scholars and universities. Institutions value the media attention and finan...

I used to be a “glass half‐full” kind of person. I used to be optimistic. Optimism has never been my natural state of being. I'm not convinced that...

If you are like me, you are struggling right now. Perhaps even more than you have been during this difficult year. Your institution reopened, and y...

According to multiple studies, incarcerated individuals who enroll in postsecondary education while behind bars have a much lower rate of recidivis...

It's November, the day after the election and after my new book was published. I'm once again sitting at my dining room table or, as I like to call...

Research that impacts one of her communities fuels Dr. Tomika L. Ferguson , interim assistant dean for student affairs and inclusive excellence and...

It was a “formative” experience in the United States educational system that, in a roundabout way, led AiLun Ku to her current position. Ku, who em...

I've hit the wall again. During the months and months of COVID‐19 pandemic, I've lost count of how many times. Life is manageable until it isn't. E...

Stories have the power to heal or to harm. “Words create repercussions,” says Madeline Sayet , the executive director of the Yale Indigenous Perfor...

WIHE spoke to three scholars about how they engage the public, how we can support each other and what conversations we should be having right now. ...

There's a photo of a redwood tree that made the rounds on social media. It's by Randy Vazquez. The tree is in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Califo...