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Education Department Revises Restrictions on Race Initiatives

Insight Into Diversity

Department of Education has modified its previous directives on race in hiring, scholarships, student programs, and other educational policies. Since coming into power, the new administration has focused on enforcing conservative legal principles in education, particularly regarding race and gender policies.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They point to the grow number of states who have passed legislation —most notably Texas and Florida—that make it more difficult to teach about Black history for example. She said that the history of school vouchers and charters, which has since been codified in state charters, is the lingering resistance to the historic 1954 U.S.

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University of Southampton awarded licence to establish India campus 

The PIE News

.” On August 29, Atherton said that along with the university’s rich history with India, one of the main reasons for setting up the campus is because of the quality and talent in Indian students and institutions.

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From Classrooms to Ballots: Unpacking the Significance of School Boards in the 2024 Elections

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Across states like South Carolina to Florida , local school boards are actively involved in banning books, removing school leaders committed to equity, and imposing limitations on classroom teachers, preventing them from teaching an accurate and honest portrayal of the United States' history.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. How do we do this?

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Ivy League to Become Collegiate Outlier in Top Women Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For Dartmouth and Columbia, these are the first women presidents in their history, while Harvard welcomes its first African American president. Robert McCaughey, retired professor of history and Janet H. Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Columbia University named new presidents, each to take office in July.