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The Price Paid by Women Who Serve -- Gender Disparities in Academia

Posted by Anna Nagurney on 01/20/2011 at 10:45 am

A very provocative study, The Ivory Ceiling of Service Work, conducted at my institution, UMass Amherst, by Joya Misra, Jennifer Hickes Lundquist, Elissa Dahlberg Holmes and Stephanie Agiomavritis, is being released today in Academe. The study, based on a survey of 350 faculty, confirmed...

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Topics: Academe , academic gender disparity , Inside Higher Ed , Isenberg School of Management , ivory ceiling , negative effects of service , UMass Amherst , operations research , STEM

Should Kindles be Used in Higher Education

Posted by Laura McLay on 09/03/2010 at 11:45 am

One of my goals this year is to test out and review several teaching with technology and social networking tools. I will periodically post reviews here. I should preface that the reviews are aimed at higher education professors in STEM fields.

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Topics: Education , Kindle , teaching , students , STEM , technology , reviews
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