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The editor-in-chief and majority of editors of a key international-education journal have resigned amid an abrupt transfer in management of the publication to an unknown third party and questions about its commitment to open-access academic publishing. The mass resignation of the editorial team for the Journal of International Students has led to confusion about the future of a publication credited with advancing international-ed research and spotlighting the work of a diverse collection of scholars. In this week's Latitudes, I dig into how the incident highlights issues around both scholarly equity and financial sustainability as open-access academic publishing has expanded. Plus, a new effort to get more Black male students to study abroad; plans for a new special Homeland Security subcommittee to examine foreign malign influence on American higher education, including the development of guidelines and best practices for colleges; and throwing cold water on global mobility data. https://lnkd.in/gc3MNeXp #internationaleducation #intled #research #openaccess #academicpublishing #studyabroad #educationabroad #internationalstudents #em #iem #highereducation #highered

I want to brag for a sec, but I promise it has a message. It's about "what makes you unique?" And we're going back to the 90s for this one. Wrapping up high school I had great grades and test scores. Not like PERFECT but good enough that I was in range to sniff at some scholarships at my school of choice. What I did next will shock you! JK JK it's actually super on brand. I drove a few states away to visit the school in person, and on a whim I thought, "I'm gonna go meet people in the scholarship office." I wasn't even sure if there WAS a scholarship office, but off I went knocking doors and asking staff and faculty. Welp, there WAS a scholarship office so I said, "I need to see the Director." lol. GUYS. They took me to the Director. 🤷♂️ He asked about my academic record and was like, "You need one more point on the ACT to meet the bare minimum to even apply." GREAT - that's all I needed to know. So I studied my ass off and got a point higher on the ACT. Here's the interesting part. The scholarship application included a long form essay question. The prompt was something about the importance of imagination for people to have impact on the world. I wrote maybe a hundred poems throughout high school, so my natural instinct was to respond in poem form. A big, rhyming, iambic tetrameter sonnet. I'm sure my parents would have barfed if they saw what I was doing. Anyway, as a kid who BARELY met the minimum application requirement, and out of thousands of applicants, I was one of 24 recipients of the full-ride, presidential scholarship. Later, I sat down again with the Director of the scholarship office and he told me something. Most college/scholarship applications have some type of "what makes you unique?" question in their process. As someone who had read tens of thousands of essays over the years, he said most essays said "I'm excellent in school and music" or "I'm excellent in school and sports." Those two things. And instead of sounding unique, they sound exactly like every other essay. Isn't that wild? So...What makes you unique?? #humblebrag #authenticity #unique #poetry

I just came across this evergreen piece. As you are probably aware, as defined in Wikipedia, within the context of journalism and broadcasting, evergreen content is content that is not time- sensitive. For, it is a story or opinion piece that is as good now as when it was first written. The sad thing is the many pieces I have written over the past three plus decades are as good now as they were when originally written. Normally, evergreen pieces do not rely on current events . They can be pulled out when needed to fill time on a slower news day or on a holiday when fewer journalists are on duty. The term is derived from the evergreen trees. As I was reaching out to many individuals whose path were impacted, I came across this evergreen piece that was original published almost a decade ago. Dr. Rick Cherwitz, Professor Emeritus, asked the Austin American-Statesman to publish it 10 years later. Given the attacks on Affirmative Action and the call for the elimination of DEI programs, I believe that this is even more relevant today.

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The lead editorial in today's WSJ is ostensibly about Claudine Gay's rise and fall, but it encompasses the entirety of the legitimacy of higher education as the training ground for the movers and shakers of society. Looking at the DEI theories that Gay both espoused and benefited from personally, the WSJ editors conclude "her defense reveals why elite educators have lost so much public respect." In essence, she was shown to be a hypocrite on the issue of protecting all students, and with it the entire DEI movement on college campuses has been shown to have an obvious blind spot on the subject of antisemitism. DEI gained prominence following the George Floyd protests of 2020 by claiming it was for inclusion, and yet in the wake of the October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas, it failed to protect students from antisemitism. Claudine Gay and the other college presidents questioned about this failure seemed unable to respond appropriately revealing a significant moral weakness in DEI ideology. That weakness being seeing the world as divided into the oppressors and the oppressed. Jews, having been deemed "white" were outside the protection of DEI. This revelation has seriously tarnished DEI's elevated claims for itself. The WSJ editorial complains that Gay's fate should have been a moment for introspection at America's institutions of higher learning, but "alas they seem to be circling the progressive wagons." The WSJ quotes former New York Times editorial page editor, James Bennett, on his former newspaper saying, "It is becoming the publication through which America's progressive elite talks to itself about an America that does not really exist." To which the WSJ editorial adds, "The same is true of other once-respected institutions." Colleges being one of them. Truly an ivory tower in which half the population of the United States is viewed as deplorable. And where intellectual debate has been narrowed to only let in progressive thought. The WSJ editorial concludes, "The real lesson of Ms. Gay's resignation is that too much of the American academy has abandoned its core mission of learning and free inquiry in favor of political indoctrination." And this situation will not abate until DEI is banished from the college bureaucracy and the its "oppressor/oppressed" curriculum is removed from the classroom.

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