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An Advocate for Equitable Health - Dr. Sabina Khan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Augustine for Health Sciences; Dr. Djora Soetman, Harvard T.H. As a professor, she prepares health science students to address systemic inequities through empathy, understanding occupational injustices, and recognizing how power dynamics shape healthcare outcomes.

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Oil money undermines academic autonomy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

But if top universities genuinely want to lead, a key roadblock remains: around the nation and the world, leading institutions are structurally unprepared for the fossil fuel industry’s assault on the interests and values of academia. In May, Stanford University announced a $1.1

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If we want to disrupt systemic oppression, we need a model that prioritizes care, empathy, love, authenticity, healing, hope, collectivity, solidarity, and community,” said Gaston Gayles, president of ASHE and distinguished graduate professor and senior advisor for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at North Carolina State University. “If

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts. regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009. Postal Service in Washington, D.C.,

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Empowering Student Learning: Navigating Artificial Intelligence in the College Classroom 

Faculty Focus

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Out of the panic, an emerging field of practical, practitioner-based research has begun to emerge. The call for calm, patient reflection has been noted (Naidu 2023, para 10).

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

University Business

Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Her list of published work is exhaustive with a special interest in using “computational approaches to model cognitive processes that focus on how people divide the world into categories,” according to Bowdoin College’s website. from Arizona State University in Psychology.