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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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Teacher-Run Organization Seeks to Educate Students on Historical Resistance Efforts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s

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Student Worker Organizing Efforts See Drastic Uptick

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

at large, finding that despite organization efforts, successful strikes, growing public support, and plenty of media attention, the share of union members among U.S. However, despite this general downward trend, workers in higher education seem to be fighting harder to organize and make demands of their employers.

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Coursera Launches Course Builder: Organizations Can Now Quickly Create and Launch Custom Courses at Scale

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By Shravan Goli In a fast-changing market, organizations will need to create, update, and deploy learning resources that keep pace with the rate of change. Authors can seamlessly blend modules from participating world-class industry and academic partners on Coursera with content from experts in their own organization.

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Five Neurodiversity Considerations For Educators

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cook: If you've heard the 'why' behind my work as an attorney, educator, and neurodiversity advocate, you know that the foundation of every career decision I've made thus far has been "to make sense of my own brain and empower others to do the same." Or maybe, just maybe. the forces powerful enough to withstand detractors. Nichelle N.

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Zamani-Gallaher Appointed Dean of School of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Zamani-Gallaher has been named the Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. “I in educational organization and leadership from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. in educational organization and leadership from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Anti-Apartheid Advocate and Human Rights Activist Randall Robinson Dies at 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Renowned human rights activist and civil rights lawyer Randall Robinson died Mar. Known for his advocacy against apartheid and for Haitian democracy and reparations for Black Americans, Robinson was a fierce supporter of higher education. He was also founder and president of foreign policy advocacy organization TransAfrica.