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Experts Discuss Equity Practices in Higher Ed Recruitment and Admissions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Along that same line, experts spent the webinar discussing strategies and recent briefs on equitable admissions in higher ed, specifically on topics such as recruitment, legacy admissions, early action practices, test-optional and test-free policies, and holistic review of student applications.

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Educators Strategize on How to Diversify the K-12 Teaching Profession

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Educators who train and prepare students to become teachers, gathered this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) to call attention to the ongoing challenges that face K-12 learning. Now, we’re not just polarized about policy but about each other,” she said.

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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. The document's authors misrepresent the origins of progressive thought in education. Department of Education is deeply troubling.

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It is not too late to shift gears to a more visionary International Education Strategy for Canada 

The PIE News

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is currently leading the development of Canada’s third International Education Strategy (IES) to follow the current strategy that expires on March 31 next year. GAC’s task is further complicated as the responsibility of education policy lies exclusively with the provinces.

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What were we reading about higher education in 2024?

HEPI

As 2024 draws to a close, Josh Freeman, Policy Manager, and the HEPI team look back on a remarkable year in higher education policy. Today, we gaze over quite a different policy landscape from the one I wrote about this time last year. Students views on generative AI in higher education.

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AAUP Releases New DEI Statement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The statement rejects the claim that DEI criteria infringes on academic freedom by imposing political or ideological litmus tests concerning diversity and points out that decisions about the scope, design, and application of DEI criteria for faculty evaluation must rest primarily with the faculty as part of shared governance.

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70 Years Later: Black Students with Disabilities Post-Brown v. Board of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Board of Education decision , it is crucial to reflect on its complex legacy, particularly its unintended negative impact on special education services for Black children. Board of Education was a landmark decision that sought to dismantle racial segregation in American public schools. Ellis The 1954 U.S.