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Exploring the History of Latinos in Baseball

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So, when it came time for him to pick an academic pursuit, the study of Latinos and sports history naturally came to mind. I just wanted to understand what [the history was] behind this,” says Burgos. “I Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? Daniels Of course, I was not reading academic journals and higher education publications then. Over the years, I’ve observed at least seven (7) best practices in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education that other media outlets might be well-served to emulate: 1.

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Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur to Depart for American Museum of Natural History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur will be stepping down from his current role at the end of 2022 to become president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in April 2023. Decatur has been on the pages of Diverse across the years, and was recognized by the publication in 2007 as an Emerging Scholar. .

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Robin Okey obituary

The Guardian - Higher Education

My friend and colleague of 50 years, Robin Okey, who has died aged 81, was emeritus professor of history at the University of Warwick. He was a remarkable person in so many ways. Continue reading.

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U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action

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states that banned affirmative action such as California in 1996 (Card & Krieger, 2005; Kaufman, 2007) and Michigan in 2006 ( Long & Bateman, 2020) , the results of these bans on affirmative action led to the lower participation and enrollment of students of color compared to the period before the bans. As seen in U.S. Kaufmann, S.

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Testy Appointed to Lead the Association of American Law Schools

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Testy Association of American Law Schools “I am deeply honored to have been chosen as Judy Areen’s successor and am committed to advancing excellence in legal education at a time of heightened challenges and changes in law and higher education,” said Testy.

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AAUP Launches Investigation of Hamline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It quoted from a 2007 AAUP report on freedom in the classroom, stating that “ideas that are germane to a subject under discussion in a classroom cannot be censored because a student with particular religious or political beliefs might be offended.

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