Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

While inclusion and belonging initiatives face continuing challenges in higher education, corporate America remains committed to these efforts, recognizing the critical role of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in driving business success. The economic benefits are well documented.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

By Sarah Brown The action is the latest example of heightened interest by a Republican state official in documenting, and potentially curbing, colleges’ efforts to promote equity and inclusion.

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SRHE

APRIL 2, 2025

GenAI may widen the digital divide without proper strategies While the digital divide in higher education is already well-documented in relation to general technologies, the emergence of GenAI introduces new risks that may further widen this gap ( Cachat-Rosset & Klarsfeld, 2023 ).

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The tool kit focuses on small shifts in the substance and tone of the syllabus document, rather than drastic revisions, which can make a big difference in supporting learning and success. Is this diversity newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

What I’m really interested in is people’s experiences with the environment, particularly environmental change, and documenting how they navigate these changes,” Treviño Peña says. The junior scholar’s research examines various changes in the environment and how they affect people — the intersection of human and natural relationships.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology has dropped diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility from its accreditation criteria and supporting documents, a move made in response to federal pushback on DEIA, according to an email obtained by Inside Higher Ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Unlike traditional academic organizations that can be exclusive or rigid in their scope, BWSA is intentionally inclusive, embracing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to the field of Black Womens Studies.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As a student, I remember using them in my college history courses, relying on the competing perspectives in classroom debates, and combing through the documents and essays when writing my papers. I was excited to join the “Major Problems series because I have used these volumes in the classroom, both as a student and as an instructor.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 6, 2024

Recent documents obtained by The Dallas Morning News have revealed that the majority of employees terminated from the University of Texas (UT) System campuses due to Texas’ new ban on DEI programs were predominantly women and people of color. At a Senate hearing on May 14, UT System Chancellor James B.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

Core strategies addressed in all programming include the intersectionality of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), trauma-informed pedagogy, clarity, flexibility, diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racist pedagogy. Designing an inclusive syllabus. Active learning. link] (retrieved January 2, 2023). CEI (2022). Columbia CTL (2022).

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 9, 2024

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has demanded Harvard University provide a trove of documents within two weeks to assist in its investigation into the university’s response to antisemitism. Harvard must deliver all requested documents, including related informal communications such as text messages, by January 23.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 19, 2024

“Universities are operating against a backdrop of developing environmentally sustainable practices, widening participation from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds in global activities, financial pressures, and ensuring inclusivity and belonging amongst their student cohorts,” the handbook foreword wrote.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

I spend quite a bit of time and effort into creating this document every semester. I enjoy showcasing my personality and interests throughout this course document. Is the document accessible? Let’s return to the question posed by all my colleagues: “Is the document accessible?” Is the document relatable?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Image: Faculty members at Lakeland Community College in Ohio are voicing opposition to a motion passed by the Board of Trustees to create a special committee of trustees to “review equity, diversity, and inclusion language in Lakeland Community College’s plans and policies.”

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HEPI

APRIL 27, 2025

It is well documented that many students will base their choices on university standings , purposefully selecting universities that are in the top 100 of world rankings. I commend the respondents’ use of the term inclusion and agree we should all be aspiring towards a more inclusive environment on campuses.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) To ensure an institution complies with the tenets of diversity, equity and inclusion, the report suggests training AI models to identify potential biases in its institutional policies and practices. Interacting with AI this way can work in different aspects, too.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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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UW Presidential Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

But the need for courage and vigilance has never disappeared, and now, we are faced with the urgent need to defend that hard-won progress, even as we continue the work of advancing equity and inclusion for all LGBTQIA+ people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

The inclusion of Ivy League and other institutions throws this dynamic into even further relief. Today, we see the growing impact of outside money from wealthy conservatives like Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager who has waged an assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at Harvard University and elsewhere.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

I spend quite a bit of time and effort into creating this document every semester. I enjoy showcasing my personality and interests throughout this course document. Is the document accessible? Let’s return to the question posed by all my colleagues: “Is the document accessible?” Is the document relatable?

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ACRLog

AUGUST 4, 2023

To initiate the process, a call was made for faculty librarians to join the governance body responsible for drafting the Bylaws document. As new faculty, we lacked, for example, the previous knowledge that there were documents already in existence that addressed procedures. Without it, important meaning can be lost.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 15, 2023

The guidance suggests that institutions should collect and review demographic data about their applicant pool, admissions outcomes, and enrolled students to help determine ways to enhance their programs and objectives to advance diversity and inclusion, so long as the information is used in a manner that adheres to applicable privacy laws.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Quantitative data are also essential, especially for documenting patterns of inequity and raising questions about how bias and other forces lead to observed differences. At the foundation of any effort to improve faculty diversity must be data that document the social identities and background characteristics of faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, co-chair of The 1856 Project and associate director for engagement, inclusion and reparative archiving, Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Maryland. It’s our own small way to ensure that all voices are heard, and all people are respected.”

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

. “The standards not only focus on student recruitment strategies, but also address the broad issues of global diversity and inclusion.” Questions in the document are designed to stimulate broad, critical thinking and elicit robust responses from institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2024

I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. Banks’ An Introduction to Multicultural Education. They are inseparable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

Ellen Chaffee “The value of diverse perspectives for teams and for-profit boards is well-documented, and we recognize that governing boards need new and varied voices to overcome the myriad challenges facing higher education right now,” said Lesley McBain, the association’s director of research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

These organizations are collectively investing more than $2 billion toward efforts to improve equity in STEMM, said Dr. Travis York, director of Inclusive STEMM Ecosystems for Equity & Diversity (ISEED) at AAAS. The alliance launched in 2022 at the first White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

Core strategies addressed in all programming include the intersectionality of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), trauma-informed pedagogy, clarity, flexibility, diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racist pedagogy. Designing an inclusive syllabus. Active learning. link] (retrieved January 2, 2023). CEI (2022). Columbia CTL (2022).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“That feeling [of a unifying goal] is going to go away if we don’t document it, develop some support to enhance it and say, ‘Don’t you want that back?’” ” Inclusive, Collaborative Teaching and Course Design. ’” Rascoff said. “We need that after the pandemic.”

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The PIE News

APRIL 10, 2024

Sustainable growth in international education in the UK will not be possible if the government does not “commit to a suite of evidence-informed policies” to allow for an equitable and inclusive sector, a new paper has said.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Even when students read these documents, their past experiences may influence how they make sense of them. Ideally, the faculty member would film the video in a nonacademic setting, use welcoming language that speaks to social inclusion and offer a window into who they are outside the classroom. Barriers to Barrier-Free Syllabi.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The purpose of the age-old course syllabus remains the same — a crucial document that sets the foundation for a course by providing students with essential information, outlining expectations, and serving as a reference point throughout the semester. How do we do this?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Committee members often arrive unprepared. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission. Rhodes College The three-year grant will provide funding for the research and documentation of Memphians stories who are often absent from the narratives about the city.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab We started our process about a year ago by talking about what his college will cost, since I’ve extensively documented the consequences of paying too much. Why would I let anything, especially something as absurdly over-valued like “college search,” get in the way?

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