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Montana State's Dr. Waded Cruzado Makes History as APLU's First Latina President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Under her stewardship, the institution has also secured more than $850 million in private funding, supporting student scholarships and major campus expansion projects. It is truly a pleasure to heed the call to serve and to advocate for a better and brighter future for all Americans through the promise of public higher education," she said.

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Army Veteran and Doctoral Student Named Inaugural Winner of the U.S. Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship

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Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship, The Flash Today reported. in educational leadership with an emphasis on higher education, Burkett wants to advocate for unheard voices and share stories of the vulnerable and underrepresented. “As A Tarleton State University doctoral student and U.S. Pursuing an Ed.D.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

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Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. If a faculty member is assigned more teaching and/or more service, and has less time available for scholarship, they should be evaluated accordingly. The criteria should be read aloud, prior to evaluating that dimension.

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"Change Schools, We Can Change the World"

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Seeing her protect me and advocate for me, matter-of-factly and resolutely, changed my whole life. She stood up to the principal and affirmed my humanity. She let me know, ‘You are a full human being, and they’re going to have to recognize you.’” That memory shows up in Vassar’s demeanor today as an advocate for racial justice.

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Brown University Exhibit on Mumia Abu-Jamal to Highlight American Prison System

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“The exhibition and symposium both shed light on the daily realities of incarceration, foregrounding many of the persistent issues that millions of prisoners encounter with their health, their psychological well-being and their ability to advocate for themselves while incarcerated,” said Amanda E.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

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She uses her visibility as a Black female scientist at the University of Florida, a Research 1 institution, to advocate for others. “In Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships. Erika Moore co-founded the group Black in Biomedical Engineering (BlackInBME) to amplify, support, and foster community.

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Pride in the Halls

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Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3%