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Morehouse Joins Initiative to Bring College Courses to Disadvantaged High Schoolers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s a challenging class that Dr. Kendrick Brown, Morehouse’s provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, describes as the best of what the school has to offer. There’s an additional layer: for many students we’re talking specifically about their history,” said Moore. “A

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Outrage Continues Over University of Florida's Removal of DEI Roles

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ahmed, vice provost for DEI at the University of Vermont. “It There is no data or evidence that proves that DEI initiatives promote indoctrination or that diversity leads to white people falling behind, said Dr. David Canton, director of African American Studies and associate professor of history at UF.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Inside Higher Ed

More seriously, I’m angered by the audacious and obnoxious claim that these campuses need donors’ and foundations’ money more than institutions that serve much larger population of socioeconomically disadvantaged students. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Data describing the institutions from which faculty members receive doctoral degrees can also inform understanding of (the lack of) diversity of perspectives and the potential advantages and disadvantages that different faculty members have.

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Cal State objects to proposed four-year programs at two-year colleges

Inside Higher Ed

The status quo will continue to disadvantage students we’ve historically disadvantaged in higher education.” ” The system reached out to provosts and the Cal State Academic Senate to determine if there were any objections to the proposed programs from scholars, which took time. ” Interpreting the Law.

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Morehouse College Prepares for Possible Protests

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I think there’s a paternalistic instinct and history in higher education with students, and I think it sometimes makes us not take seriously student voice and input in decision making process.” We’re seeing students, faculty, community members, and other stakeholders saying, ‘Who are you making these decisions for and with?’”

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