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Stacey Abrams Appointed Inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics at Howard University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The well-known political figure was a state representative in the Georgia General Assembly, having served as minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives 2011-2017. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a J.D. Abrams holds a B.A. from Yale University.

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Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

In 2011, she assumed the role of Executive Vice President of People, Community, and Diversity, leading TFA’s work to uphold its commitment to diversity and build an organizational model of fairness and equality. In January 2013, she began overseeing the Public Affairs and Communications teams. Before joining TFA, Ms.

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Central European University’s Complicated Legal Geographies

GlobalHigherEd

It’s worth noting that Cole is author of The Great American University: Its Rise To Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected (Public Affairs, 2009), one of the seminal texts about state-society-economy conditions and associated policies and programs that enabled U.S.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Public Affairs. Unmaking the Public University. The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them. The Road Ahead for America's Colleges & Universities. Oxford University Press. Armstrong, E. and Hamilton, L. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. Harvard University Press.

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Democratic Protests on Campus: Modeling the Better World We Seek (Annelise Orleck)

Higher Education Inquirer

Brandeis Center, founded in 2011 to combat civil rights violations against Jewish or Israeli students. Politicians heavily funded by Israel’s premier lobbying firm – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – are more than happy to conflate criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism.

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