Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

Randi Weingarten AFT represents teachers, school staff, higher education workers, nurses and healthcare professionals, and public employees. It plans to host its 88th biennial national convention July 22-25 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Racquel Oden is the first woman in Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s 37-year history to assume the role of Board Chair, announced the organization, which was founded in 1987 by Dr. N. Joyce Payne as a bastion of support for Black students seeking higher education. Racquel Oden Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Throughout this process, I have learned so much about Texas Southern University, and I am honored to join this esteemed institution with such a rich history,” said Crawford. “I Crawford III was selected as the sole finalist for president of Texas Southern University. Crawford retired after 30 years with the U.S. He served under six U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

26 memorial for Jim Wright, Marine, president emeritus of Dartmouth, champion of education for veterans, who died Oct. The memorial reviewed 53 years of hard work by Jim at Dartmouth as a history professor, administrator and president. ” Wick Sloane is an end user of a most highly selective higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

Jane Powers, ’86, an advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, was the first woman to chair the Board of Trustees. Jacqueline Núñez, ’61, advocated for the college to enact a non-discrimination clause before it became standard in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Racial justice advocates are turning out for the Fifth Annual Critical Race Theory Summer School hosted by the African American Policy Forum. The social justice think tank opened its July 28-Aug. 2 summit with a plenary titled “Tip of the Spear: Tennessee on the Frontlines of the War on Woke.” 2, and is available virtually.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

"The Asylum Law Clinic is a huge step in training law students to advocate effectively for marginalized groups," said Andrea Ramos, director of Southwestern’s Immigration Law Clinic. Our curriculum emphasizes both the knowledge and compassion needed for impactful legal representation and advocacy."

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University Business

MARCH 10, 2023

In July 2022, more than 500 tech and education leaders issued a call to action advocating for the expansion of computer science education opportunities for students. Less than a year later, education technology has come much further than we anticipated. education system, and no organization can solve the problem alone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

On the 60th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, we stand at a pivotal moment in history. Higher education institutions have the power to be catalysts for socioeconomic mobility and drivers of economic policy that creates opportunities for underserved communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

Not that long ago, higher education advocates regularly complained about the lack of national attention on colleges and universities. Today, higher education is a hot topic and almost always for negative reasons. To the dissenters, our current reality only comes into focus in light of this history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The June 29, 2023, Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action abruptly ended race-conscious admissions practices in higher education, eroding nearly 50 years of precedent. One of the most critical roles the Black Church plays is that of an advocate and educator. Dr. Antonio L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

Dawn Kissi “There is a tradition in this country of the advocacy journalist, and within that long history Ida B. Wells, born in Mississippi three years before Emancipation, became a truth-telling, crusading journalist who fearlessly investigated lynchings and advocated for equality in suffrage, housing, criminal justice, and education.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 8, 2024

In addition to these big-ticket policy items, there have been hints that significant change is on the way for the regulation of higher education in England, with Sir David Behan appointed interim chair of the sector regulator, the Office for Students. appeared first on The PIE News.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 12, 2023

The tribes, which include Red Lake Nation and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, have not yet settled on a specific amount, The Washington Post reports, but they agree that the university should acknowledge and address its troubled history with Native Americans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

By examining history with a criminal law book at hand, Webb found evidence to charge the U.S. For a year and a half, Webb collaborated with educators to create the 3E Program for Social Justice and Change , which begins its official roll out on November 15. Our history with America is an ugly one, but we can all change it,” said Webb.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig, dean of the University of Kentucky’s (UK) College of Education, has been named the winner of the University Council for Educational Administration's (UCEA) 2022 Linda C. Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig The award – named after diversity and equity advocate Linda C. Tillman Social and Racial Justice Award.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

LaVar Charleston studied public relations, marketing, educational leadership and policy analysis. history, gender and race with the law. Together, the two work to make organizational, leadership, and cultural changes that transform higher education into a welcoming space for marginalized populations.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In an industry where many businesses operate cash-only due to federal restrictions, scientists need a unique blend of botany, chemistry, and a keen understanding of the plant’s policy history. While the education itself is legal, institutions must safeguard students from the legal implications of a Schedule 1 drug.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The College Board has released a revised framework of its African American studies Advanced Placement (AP) course, a course that has received plenty of criticism from both advocates and critics this year. Dr. Terrell Strayhorn With this Dec. public high schools last year. public high schools last year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions in June has left universities, nonprofit organizations, Richard Kahlenberg and other higher education stakeholders with a single question: What are the best paths forward? to help identify the economic factors for which Kahlenberg has advocated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Dr. Roy Davage Hudson Hudson served from 1970 to 1976 at Hampton, then known as Hampton Institute, and played a significant role in shaping the institution's history and fostering its growth. We remember President Hudson as a trailblazer, an advocate for education, and a champion for our students,” said Williams. Williams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

He said that his vision for diversity administration has always been one of demonstrated accountability and a “roll call” for champions, advocates, and friends. Ken Coopwood, a four-time cabinet-level diversity executive, who founded Diversity Landmarks at Indiana University’s Northwest campus in 2004.

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HEPI

MAY 24, 2023

It is absolutely right that the History curriculum must objectively describe the origins of the state of Israel for example and the brutality of much of British imperial history – if that is what is meant by ‘decolonising the curriculum’, then that is necessary and right.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It’s easy these days to feel pessimistic about the state of higher education. Amid these tensions, Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) represent a promising opportunity to reinvigorate and expand the national higher education narrative. This includes integrating Latine epistemologies into teaching and advising practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Higher Education and Student Affairs Education:   M.Ed., I am a higher ed scholar, that’s where my academic upbringing is,” Gonzalez told Diverse. and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2024

Addressing book bans, advocating for intellectual freedom, and ensuring diverse representation in educational materials are all part of this ongoing struggle for justice. The Black Church, with its rich history of social advocacy, plays a vital role in this effort.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

On the 13 th June 2020, a letter was published in The Times newspaper signed by more than 50 UK-based academics, educators, campaigners, novelists and historians underscoring the timely ‘ need to teach colonial history’ in Britain’s schools. The letter’s signatories were far from alone in making such an appeal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. Dacey, who recently narrated a video about LGBTQ history at UND, has remained engaged with advocacy at the university. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC. Dr. Luis A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

I am honored and excited for the opportunity to become dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, an innovator in 21st-century theological education, and to work with dedicated faculty and staff in the preparation of outstanding ministers and scholars,” Pierce said. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Alongside the opening, there will be a two-day symposium, “Voices of Mass Incarceration,” about law enforcement, prison medical care, public art, incarceration’s effects on women and girls, and the history of incarceration. Vampire Nation,” one of four music pieces Abu-Jamal composed in solitary confinement, will also be premiered there.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

“SIU Carbondale has a long history of inclusivity, and I am excited that this agreement with Tougaloo furthers that mission,” SIU Law Dean Camille Davidson said. “It We trust a justice system when we see ourselves as advocates and decision-makers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2022

And if we look carefully at our own family history, what they were doing—that’s significant.” He advocated for the construction of a bridge to bypass train tracks causing major back-up in Black neighborhoods. In a sense, my grandmother lived her life through her children.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Agloro jokes that few of her friends know exactly what she does on a day-to-day basis because she works in so many fields, ranging from the creation of a video game that will preserve the cultural experiences and histories of Latinx immigrants in the Pacific islands to working with reproductive justice and technology for indigenous midwives.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For-profit colleges, along with all institutions that offer non-degree certificate programs, will need to demonstrate that their graduates can afford their debt payments and earn more than adults who did not receive a postsecondary education. “Higher education is supposed to be an invaluable investment in your future.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

As an example of “strategic” expansion, they say in the report, “Community colleges might consider offering degrees in fields where there is a clear shortage of bachelor’s degree–educated workers, even if these fields overlap with existing four-year programs (e.g.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. “All of those intersectionalities opened my eyes to a lot of inequity in higher education,” Mora said.

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