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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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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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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%

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Intentionality is Key in First-generation Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. For example, we have developed an integrated framework to decrease student debt and increase access to outside scholarships.

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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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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s important now more than ever for us to look at our role in this world as public health advocates to avoid negative health events like a global pandemic.” These funds will go to scholarships and education for students pursuing studies in the areas of health science and public health. Public health is a social responsibility.