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Howard University Taps Antiracist Scholar Ibram X. Kendi to Head New Advanced Studies Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Howard's Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Anthony K. His earlier work, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America , won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was recently adapted into an Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary. Dr. Ibram X.

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women now receive around 40% of STEM PhDs — far from parity but a definite improvement. Dr. Roberta Rincon “The ADVANCE program has been a game-changer for higher ed,” says Dr. Travis York, director of inclusive STEMM ecosystems for equity & diversity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Palm Beach Atlantic University English Professor Claims Job is Under Review for Teaching a Racial Justice Unit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But this month, a private Christian university’s provost and dean told him his contract renewal for next year would be on hold while they investigated the unit, Joeckel said. Ron DeSantis’s (R) proposed plans to defund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at state colleges and universities. Sam Joeckel. “I

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DEI Expert Seeks to Educate Campuses about Islamophobia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ahmed – who is vice provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Vermont – has been working in the field of diversity for over 20 years, educating, consulting, and training people about DEI matters, mostly focused on higher ed. I think that there's definitely antisemitism on campuses.

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What Educators Should Know About ChatGPT

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

“We try to institute general policies that certainly back up the faculty member’s authority to run a class,” instead of targeting specific methods of cheating, said Joe Glover, provost of the University of Florida. Educators must consider ethics, cheating, and equity, just as they would when integrating other technologies into their courses.

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West Virginia U proposal outlines process for firing faculty

Inside Higher Ed

The draft document urges credit for faculty members supporting the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion mission, or who are otherwise doing community-engaged or interdisciplinary work; this presumably addresses long-standing concerns across academe that such efforts go unrecognized in traditional faculty reward structures.

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U of Arizona professors say they're blackballed from service

Inside Higher Ed

That’s when he filed public records requests for more information about who had applied to an associate vice provost job he’d wanted but didn’t get. Abraham’s ongoing legal complaint against the university deals primarily with the information he requested on the associate vice provost search.

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