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Shiyi Xie; Guoying Liu – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
This research explores the perspectives and practices of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Canadian Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) academic librarianship. Research data were collected from Canadian STEM librarians through an online survey and one-on-one interviews. Findings indicate that the majority of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Academic Libraries, Diversity
Stein, Sharon; Hare, Jan – Harvard Educational Review, 2023
In this article Sharon Stein and Jan Hare ask how higher education institutions might begin to confront the connections between climate change and colonization. To grapple with this question, they examine the dynamics through which climate action can reproduce colonial relations and reflect on the challenges, complexities, and possibilities that…
Descriptors: Barriers, Climate, Colonialism, Universities
Kerr, Sharon Ann – Online Submission, 2021
Australian higher education has its roots deep in the soil of colonisation and European imperialism. Therefore, it has developed as a system that is exclusive rather than inclusive of social and cultural diversity. The poor levels of higher education participation and outcomes for Indigenous students and students with a disability indicate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Bias, Indigenous Populations, Student Diversity
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Collins, Christopher S.; Mueller, M. Kalehua – Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Public land-grant universities have historically engaged with the public through knowledge extension in the agricultural sciences, which later grew into other forms of outreach. Given the important mission of land-grant institutions to positively impact agricultural sciences, this inquiry focuses on the role of agricultural extension and the…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Public Colleges, Rural Extension, Indigenous Knowledge