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Understanding Academic Exile After the 2024 Election

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For many of us whose work or lived experiences connect race, gender, history, or sexuality, within education, exile is less about leaving and more about staying in a space where we know we’re not fully welcome. I’d argue that exile, in this sense, can bring out our best work, and history backs this up.

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Black History Month 2024: African Americans and the Arts 

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 4 minutes The national theme for Black History Month 2024 is “ African Americans and the Arts.” Black History Month 2024 is a time to recognize and highlight the achievements of Black artists and creators, and the role they played in U.S. history and in shaping our country today.

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Morgan State University Launches Task Force to Combat Declining Black Male Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At Morgan State, despite achieving record-breaking total enrollment figures and becoming the nation's third-largest HBCU, the percentage of Black male students has dropped from 43% in 2015 to 37% in fall 2024. higher education institutions.

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Universities under pressure: Rising above politics to secure Australia’s future

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Australias higher education sector took a hammering in 2024 but our universities as they have throughout history and in spite of political machinations continued to deliver a high-quality education to both domestic and international students and undertake research to find solutions to our biggest challenges.

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The Commencement Story and the Rhymes of History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Commencements are also ceremonial affairs, designed to celebrate achievement. Recently, storyteller and documentary historian Ken Burns realized these assignments and more at his address to 2024 graduates at Brandeis University. According to Burns (via Mark Twain), history does not repeat itself so much as it rhymes with itself.

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Usher to Receive Honorary Doctorate and Deliver Emory University's Commencement Address

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are few artists in the history of popular music who have innovated as ceaselessly as Usher," said Emory President Dr. Gregory L. Usher, who moved to Atlanta at age 12 to pursue his music career, has become one of the best-selling artists in music history since his self-titled debut at age 15.

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Working to Keep Minoritized Students Safe - Dr. Kaleb Briscoe

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Trust in the possibility of achieving the impossible, even when it feels out of reach. You have erased history, people, resources, and services. Candace Maddox Moore, University of Maryland, College Park Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Be unapologetic about your work. Were already seeing mass unenrollment and mass exodus.