Found 231 articles

  • Not Quite Half‐Full

    • Jan 4, 2021
    • Kelly J. Baker
    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...
  • Let's Acknowledge Our Suffering

    • Jan 4, 2021
    • Katie Rose Guest Pryal
    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...
  • Program Provides Academic Lifeline to Incarcerated Individuals

    • Jan 4, 2021
    • Mary Lou Santovec
    According to multiple studies, incarcerated individuals who enroll in postsecondary education while behind bars have a much lower rate of recidivis...
  • Working Mothers Still Aren't Okay

    • Dec 1, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    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...
  • Ferguson Cultivates Black Athlete Sister Circle

    • Dec 1, 2020
    • Lois Elfman
    Research that impacts one of her communities fuels Dr. Tomika L. Ferguson , interim assistant dean for student affairs and inclusive excellence and...
  • OppNet Shrinks Opportunity Gap for Underrepresented Students

    • Dec 1, 2020
    • Mary Lou Santovec
    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...
  • Hitting the Wall

    • Oct 29, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    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...
  • Director Seeks to Heal the World, One Story at a Time

    • Oct 29, 2020
    • Mary Lou Santovec
    Stories have the power to heal or to harm. “Words create repercussions,” says Madeline Sayet , the executive director of the Yale Indigenous Perfor...
  • Creating Space in Higher Education

    • Oct 29, 2020
    • Dera R. Williams and Rochelle Spencer
    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. ...
  • Anger Within

    • Sep 30, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    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...
  • How to Stop Internalizing Microaggressions

    • Sep 30, 2020
    • Christina Crawford
    According to the 2010 census data, African Americans make up about 12.1% of the U.S. population. Nevertheless, in 2017, the National Center for Edu...
  • Centering Black Women in Intellectual History

    • Sep 30, 2020
    • Nyasha Junior
    Black women are unapologetically at the center of Dr. Stephanie Evans' work. Evans is an expert in Black women's intellectual history. As a histori...
  • Those Who Wander Are Sometimes Lost

    • Sep 1, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    There are a lot of things I keenly miss from before the pandemic: the ability to be near people rather than separated by at least six feet; the abi...
  • Women Lawyers Making Progress as Campus Leaders

    • Sep 1, 2020
    • Patricia E. Salkin
    The number of lawyers serving as college and university presidents has more than doubled in the last three decades. Just over 200 lawyers led campu...
  • #BlackInTheIvory Documents Anti‐Blackness in the Academy

    • Sep 1, 2020
    • Nyasha Junior
    How do you make a hashtag go viral? Content marketers charge millions to dispense tips on increasing one's chances. The right hashtag has the poten...
  • The Pandemic's Motherhood Penalty

    • Jul 29, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    It's May, and I'm sitting at my dining room table. It's covered in pencils, crayons, scissors, worksheets and overstuffed binders. The table is now...
  • Making Scholarship Matter: An Interview With Jennifer Harvey

    • Jul 29, 2020
    • Kate Blanchard
    It isn't easy to be an activist while also being a scholar, parent and teacher. For Dr. Jennifer Harvey , professor of religion at Drake University...
  • Documentary Chronicles the Positive Impact of Competitive Sports

    • Jul 29, 2020
    • Lois Elfman
    What if former athletes could show you how they learned the life lessons that fueled them through their careers? The documentary film After the Gam...
  • Hope Is Not Enough

    • Jun 30, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    I'm doomscrolling again—relentlessly perusing social media and dwelling in the terribleness of our world. Police Brutality and Protests Once again,...
  • Consultant Works for LGBTQI+ Students' Safety

    • Jun 30, 2020
    • Mary Lou Santovec
    Change makes people uncomfortable. People will hold fast to beliefs, behaviors or activities until the pain of change is less than the pain of stay...