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Harvard Eliminates Diversity Statements in Hiring

Insight Into Diversity

In an April op-ed in The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Law School professor Randall L. Kennedy, JD, criticized the mandatory statements, arguing they were counterproductive to addressing social discrimination in academia and posed a challenge to academic freedom. Not all faculty members are supportive of this change.

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

University Business

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. The college also ran two successful cohorts of the eight-week Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Student Passport Program. Equity Advisers for Hiring, Promotion — Northwestern University. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist.” .

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When DEI Is Off the Table: How Higher Ed Leaders Can Still Drive Institutional Change: Changing Higher Ed podcast 261 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Susan Sturm

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Professor Susan Sturm of Columbia Law School, whose decades of work across higher ed, law, and social systems offer a deeper framework for moving from polarization to transformation. About Our Podcast Guest Susan Sturm is the George M. Susan Sturm: Yes, I am.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

We are reminded that what’s happening in Florida is not just an isolated issue but a warning sign of the potential nationwide impact of political interference in academia. And that got me really interested in issues of intellectual freedom, free speech, and, once I did get back into academia, academic freedom.

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A Brief History: Black Americans in Higher Education

Today's Learner

John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) created Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia as a historian and professor. women fill gaps , Magner, Denise, 1989 11 The Status of Equity for Black Faculty and Administrators in Public Higher Education in the South , Research in Higher Education, Vol.

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A Brief History: Black Americans in Higher Education

Today's Learner

John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) created Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia as a historian and professor. women fill gaps , Magner, Denise, 1989 11 The Status of Equity for Black Faculty and Administrators in Public Higher Education in the South , Research in Higher Education, Vol.

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