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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The 51,000 students who graduated from HBCUs in 2021 can expect to earn $146 billion over the course of their careers, 57 percent more than they would earn without a degree or certificate. It has already made history, with an HBCU graduate as the first presidential nominee of either of the two major parties.

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. The rest is history. Flagship Pathway Scholarship Endowment in 2021.

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. The rest is history. Flagship Pathway Scholarship Endowment in 2021.

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Aus: Colombian student numbers “highest in history”

The PIE News

Colombian student numbers for Australia are now the highest in history, according to new figures in an update from Austrade. Some 10,405 students had study permits in 2022, a 10% rise on 2021. Austrade was also optimistic about Chile’s growth, after the country’s foreign student scholarship scheme, Becas Chile, reopened in 2022.

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Chicago Teen Dorothy Jean Tillman II, DBH, Makes History

Insight Into Diversity

On May 6, 2024, Dorothy Jean Tillman II walked across the stage at Arizona State University (ASU), making history as the youngest person in the country to earn a doctoral degree. In 2021, at 15 years old, she was accepted into ASU’s doctoral program for integrated behavioral health.

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Scholar-Activist Elevates the Histories, Identities of Queer Latinx

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He draws upon scholarship in critical race theory and Jotería studies in education and invites his research participants to become co-creators and to be in conversations, or pláticas, with him. and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019).

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Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship

Educause

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) established the Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship in 2021 to improve support and access to and sustainability of digital resources and humanities projects related to social and racial justice.