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From Small-Town Roots to National Honor: SC Native Receives State's Highest Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

billion and nearly 200 employees, he helps to leads the largest federal entity dedicated to funding educational research. Service to humanity is the hallmark of philosophy, and in many ways, it shaped who I am and what I'm about in my day to day. With a budget of approximately $1.8 They built opportunities for people like me.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community colleges have long been considered a unique sector of the American higher education system utilized to advance higher educational access and economic mobility. Community colleges have a rich history of serving as open-admission institutions and pioneering college access in America.

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Civil Rights Leaders Declare The Freedom To Learn at Rally in Washington D.C.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court to hear from a slate of speakers — students, educators, parents, artists, and leaders civil and human rights organizations like National Urban League President Marc Morial and Kimberlé Crenshaw, cofounder and executive director of African American Policy Forum and a law professor at UCLA and Columbia University.

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Report Finds Diverse Characters in Schoolbooks Often One-Dimensional

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To produce the report, Ed Trust, a non-profit focused on eliminating racial and economic barriers in the educational system, analyzed 300 books aimed at kindergarteners through eighth graders from publishers who met quality standards set by EdReports, an organization that evaluates curriculum materials.

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The Robbins Review – Lessons for the Future by Professor Huw Morris

HEPI

What was particularly new about the Robbins Review was a costed proposal for more money which promised by reference to nascent Human Capital Theory to be self-financing through growth in productivity. The relationship between investment in higher education and productivity growth has become weaker (Conlon et al, 2023).

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Bradford DeLong’s ‘Slouching Towards Utopia’

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Bradford DeLong. Living through our current human-caused climate emergency while continuing to muddle our way through a global pandemic, it is sometimes difficult to believe in progress. Published in September 2022. What are you reading?

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Honor and invest in Ukraine through scholarships (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In November, the four students from Ukraine organized a presentation that introduced our campus community to their nation’s history, geography, culture, food, dress, songs, customs, dances, entrepreneurial spirit and educational system.