... a better understanding of universities' DEI climate, strategies and innovative programs. However, anti-DEI legislation challenging and defunding DEI offices began to shift the U.S. higher education climate. We discovered that the shifting landscape created different institutional inclusivity orientations...

... at the institutional and study programme level to address women students, especially in technical study programmes. This article examines the question of how viscursive privilege manifests itself in strategies and tactics relating to gender and sustainability in higher education, especially in the field of Science...

.... The structures of higher education and academic knowledge production are shaped by specific gaze orders that render certain subject positions intelligible, authoritative and legitimate, while systematically marginalizing or erasing others. These gaze orders are the effects of dispositifs, which organize what can...

...Lin Zheng Purpose This study examines academic middle management in UK higher education as a structurally demanding governance position where responsibility may exceed formal authority. It focuses on how this condition is experienced by international migrant women, whose authority and legitimacy...

... contexts and facilitates inclusive and respectful practices for managing religious diversity. Religious diversity Higher education Diversity equity and inclusion Learning Universities Organizational practices Co-construction Participatory process Since the 1980s, Canada's major cities...

... as sites of masculinity contests offers insights for creating more equitable academic environments and addressing persistent gender inequalities in higher education by recognising the complex dynamics between men's competitive relations and women's varied responses to masculine workplace cultures...

... to adversity, relate these to the higher education context and detail the struggles staff face when championing inclusion. Findings Findings revealed that when addressing diversity issues, the approach towards individual and institutional change significantly determines outcomes. If the approach centred...

... and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence . Gender equality Higher education Career...

... the former. Social implications Despite being limited to a specific subgroup of academic personnel (post-docs), the study can shed light on GEPs beyond higher education, showing that the beneficial impacts are not homogeneous across individual characteristics. Yet, equality initiatives face resilience...

...Miguel Wilson; Sayoni Ghosh; Kendra Jason Purpose Studies and programming on belonging in higher education tend to focus on college students’ sense of belonging, but the experiences of faculty and staff are equally important. Minoritized faculty and staff disproportionately report lower levels...

...Eunbi Sim; Laura L. Bierema Purpose Precarious workers in academia represent most employees in higher education institutions (HEIs), and women and historically excluded groups are overrepresented in these positions, oppressed by intersecting inequities, such as sexism and racism. There is a need...

.../value XXX. Giuliana Ferri can be contacted at: g.ferri@ucl.ac.uk 08 11 2024 13 11 2024 10 12 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only EDI Higher education Internationalisation This special issue...

... they are the majority in many classrooms?” Phan Le Ha can be contacted at: halephan@hawaii.edu 11 11 2024 13 11 2024 13 11 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Discourse Internationalization Higher education...

...Jessi L. Smith; Sylvia Mendez; Jennifer Poe; Camille Johnson; Dale K. Willson; Elizabeth A. Daniels; Heather Song; Emily Skop Purpose Annual performance evaluations of faculty are a routine, yet essential, task in higher education. Creating (or revising) performance criteria presents...

... that establishing race equity in higher education continues to be an ongoing struggle, complete with trials, tribulations and trauma. As “The Forced Silence” outlines, to affect any changes in the institution or in the community and wider society, the changes have to take place at the peer level initially...

... Licensed re-use rights only Academic staff Qualitative Feminism Knowledge mobilization Higher education Critical Scholar-activism When I concluded my intensive lecture on 14 March 2020, it would be the last time I would teach in a classroom for three years. There was an eerie quiet...

... in academic leadership and broader society. Gender distribution disparity, including the universal underrepresentation of women in senior academic posts, is a prominent theme in higher education research (Van Helden et al., 2023). The recent data from the Global Gender Gap Report 2020 suggests...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Allies Gender Higher education STEM Training Discourse surrounding the glass ceiling (see Cotter et al., 2001 ; Loden, 1987) sometimes places the burden on women and women alone to break through the invisible barriers blocking their career...

...Rhianna Garrett Purpose This paper critiques institutional whiteness and racial categorisation in UK higher education. This is done through the representation of the complex narratives of “mixed race” women navigating their PhD experiences in predominantly white institutions, when their identities...

... and interest convergence are points for explicating the dialectic and material aspects of issues of race and equity in this country; namely, how knowledge processes inherent to higher education sound even more alarms as EGOs become commonplace for college campuses. Findings To support the arguments laid...