Get caught up on what happened around the web this week in higher ed with this collection of recent articles on post-secondary education. This collection includes another look at the "Brexit" and what it might mean for Canadians in higher ed, tips for academic journal writing (including a few helpful thoughts around the peer review process), treating students as public intellectuals, more.
Brexit: What It Means for U.K. Higher Education - and for Canada
Conference Board of Canada
The Conference Board of Canada has released a report that highlights the concern that have been raised about the Brexit's potential impact on higher education and discusses how new constraints on academic mobility and collaboration might impact the UK financially.
How Your Journal Editor Works
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A glimpse into the not-so-glamorous lives and habits of scholarly gatekeepers.
On Academic Envy
Vitae
It's aggravating to experience professional jealousy. It's even more irritating to realize it's hampering your own work.
Data Mining Points Path to Helping Female and Minority Scientists
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Research from Harvard suggests that measuring "reach" - how closely one journal author is connected to others - could be a key factor in career advancement.
The challenges of implementing a diversity admissions policy
University Affairs
The push-back was strong when we sought to increase the diversity of teachers through a modified admissions policy in our education degree program.
Peer Reviewing the Peer Reviews
Vitae
With a little help from your friends, you can understand which reviewers have been helpful and which should be ignored.
Universities welcome commitment for more student mobility between Canada and Mexico
Universities Canada
Canada and Mexico have announced their intention to create more opportunities for students to move between the countries, particularly through work-integrated learning experiences, reports Universities Canada.
This Guy Got Tenure. You Probably Won't.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Get your Ph.D. anyway.
Teaching Students to Be Public Intellectuals
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Faculty members aren't the only ones whose writing for a mass audience needs work.
Managing the co-editor relationship
University Affairs
Adam Chapnick and Christopher Kukucha offer their advice for those academics who are looking for a co-editor.