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Education Department calls on colleges to stop asking about applicants’ criminal histories

Higher Ed Dive

The recommendation came in a wide-ranging report about how colleges can better support students who were formerly incarcerated.

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The ROI of a History Degree

The Chronicle of Higher Education

How to direct history students toward fulfilling nonacademic careers, and make the case for the value of the field. Cortada How to direct history students toward fulfilling nonacademic careers, and make the case for the value of the field. By Patryk J. Babiracki and James W.

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Panel: Erasing Black History Threatens to Harm Black Community, Students, and Nation's Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Marcia Vandiver, associate professor of elementary education at Towson University. the NREI website stated.

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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They serve more economically disenfranchised students than most U.S. institutions, and they do so successfully, facilitating the upward mobility of the majority of their students. HBCUs have a 34% mobility rate of moving their students from the bottom 40% in household income into the top 60%.

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Preserving HBCU History and Heritage

Insight Into Diversity

“Making accessible the compelling stories previously hidden in these libraries and archives brings grace and vitality to our cultural heritage as they inspire a more just and accurate telling of our history.” named in honor of the renowned educator and one of the first Black women in the U.S. At Oakwood University, the Eva B.

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How This Professor Made History Class Cool Again

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Tore Olsson used a wildly popular video game to get students talking about industrialization, racial integration, and other key themes of late-19th- and early-20th-century America. By Amelia Benavides-Colón Steven Bridges, University of Tennessee Tore Olsson uses the video game Red Dead Redemption to teach his class.

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Chicago graduate makes history by earning doctorate at 17

The Guardian - Higher Education

Dorothy Jean Tillman II, whose grandmother was a civil rights activist, is now the youngest Arizona State University student to get a doctorate in her field A Chicago teenager walked in her university’s commencement program after making history for earning a doctorate degree at the age of 17.

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