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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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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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Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship

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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.

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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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$100 million: The largest single donation in HBCU history goes to Spelman College

University Business

” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. Their family foundation disbursed more than $132 million in 2021 and 2022, The Observer reports. The post $100 million: The largest single donation in HBCU history goes to Spelman College appeared first on University Business.

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Why these leaders want to secure the liberal arts in a digital world

University Business

Despite Pepperdine adding a data science minor to its liberal arts undergraduate curriculum (bolstered by a $10 million grant in 2021), Hooten is looking to hire new faculty members to help expand the Great Books program due to strong enrollment this fall.

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140,000 mobility programs funded by DAAD in 2022

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With budget for the year increasing to about €775 million as a result in part to Ukraine aid programs, DAAD said it worked to respond to multiple crises during “challenging times” In 2021, DAAD had €634.7 “Russia’s attack on Ukraine has brought a delusional pursuit to forcefully adjust history back to our continent.