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Initiative Promotes Financial Literacy by Investing in HBCU Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kevon Chisolm, a Virginia-based attorney, has crafted an Afro-centric program called the Junior Wallstreeters, a nonprofit orgranization that provides financial literacy products and services to historically disadvantaged communities.

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DOE’s proposed regulations would destroy study abroad opportunities for US college students

The PIE News

We’re at a particularly pivotal moment in history where we need thoughtful, interculturally effective, empathetic global citizens more than ever. Study abroad experiences empower students to step outside of their comfort zones and develop skills outside the traditional American classroom. This cannot be allowed to happen.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

STEM ALL IN Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences (CECAS) STEM ALL IN empowers participants to pursue STEM graduate degrees through on-campus experiences, educational sessions, and network building. Students gain STEM learning experiences that challenge them to think critically.

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CFI 24-25 Directorate Board Candidate Statements

ACPA

Given the history and modern implications of fatphobia, healthism, and other similar systems of oppression having deep intersections with anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity (just to name a few), it is impossible to support the CFI holistically without considering the strategic imperative.

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A Humanistic Revolution in Legal Education—How Penn State Dickinson Law Is Reimagining Anti-Racism in Action

Insight Into Diversity

The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter A powerful and deeply researched historical examination of how the concept of “whiteness” was socially constructedand how it has shaped racial hierarchies in the U.S. I love this book, Irvin Painter wrote a book called The History of White People. and Europe.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Inside Higher Ed

Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University. We want to empower our students as writers and thinkers and we know that AI will play a role in their futures. Prepare student writers to consider the benefits and disadvantages of these tools in the context of specific writing purposes. Remind Students to Think.

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How to Attract and Inspire Underrepresented Students: Lessons from Lucy Cavendish College: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 152 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Madeleine Atkins

The Change Leader, Inc.

Highlights Lucy Cavendish’s Academic Attainment Program first identifies high schools in socio-economic disadvantaged and minority ethnic communities that don’t send pupils to the UK’s top universities. s affinity groups that strengthen these students’ sense of belonging. We know from the US that we have some similarities here.

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