GRAD 5104 Preparing the Future Professoriate

Initially, I was thinking of writing my final blog post geared towards the necessity of training students who wish to pursue an academic path, which would be related to us, but to be honest, preparation for intended careers is something that is dear even to students intending to pursue an industrial role ahead in their […]

The concept of a university has traditionally been an institution where teachers and scholars come together for the creation and dissipation of new knowledge. But with a growing demand for higher education, many universities and colleges have crept up in order to cater to the rising number of students. I am not saying that new […]

With the start of the 21st century and a digital age greatly affected by the concept of the ‘Internet’, it was supposed to be only a matter of time before their influence would be disruptive for the field of education. Yet, even without the use of any facts or articles to support this, we do […]

For this blog post, I decided to review two open-access journals and compare the actions that are generally governed by the publisher. For ease of comparison, I chose the same publisher i.e. Elsevier, however, one journal is completely open access that was established a few years ago while the other one is hybrid but has […]

For the ethics blog post, I was looking at research misconduct by Dr. Prasadrao Nemani. The case consists of the inclusion of falsified images and fabricated data in a published paper and leveraging the same information in several grants submitted for the U.S. Public Health Services (PHS). On being found guilty, the respondent (Dr. Nemani) […]

A mission statement of a university can be considered as the directive principles guiding the operations that affect the long-term goals of the university while also providing the community a glimpse into what should be expected at the institution. Further, an article on this topic [1], states that a mission statement should also provide insights […]