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New Study Reveals the Anti-CRT Agenda is Really about Denying Racism and Revising History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Toldson CRT is a body of scholarship that spans more than 40 years, which examines the ways in which structures of power and privilege are embedded within existing social, cultural, and legal systems. They are for denying racism and revising history, by any means necessary, including by advancing draconian censorship legislation.

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Honor and invest in Ukraine through scholarships (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

We educated our campus communities as to what is at stake in Ukraine, facilitated efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian citizens and offered scholarships for Ukrainians interested in pursuing higher education.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Historical Context The SAT and ACT, standardized tests used to measure aptitude for learning in college admissions, have a racist history rooted in the 19th century influx of immigrants into the United States. He argued that education system would decline with an "accelerating rate" as intermingling between races increased.

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Awarded 2022 Linda C. Tillman Social and Racial Justice Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And in 2019, he launched a partnership between the UK College of Education and the NAACP to create the Education and Civil Rights Initiative, an education, advocacy, and research initiative on educational equity, civil rights, and social justice. s education system. Vasquez Heilig holds a Ph.D.

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Differences aside, why are we all so similar? By Natalie Day, Johnny Rich & Chris Husbands

HEPI

Writing for HEPI in December, Mary Curnock Cook and Malcolm Grant argued that the ways in which the Office for Students applies QAA methodology to new entrants to HE prevents the emergence of different forms of higher education provision. They inform system changes and encourage gaming within institutions, even if rigorously denied.

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Higher ed must move beyond performative apologies (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

higher education system was built. These histories of violence have attracted a recent surge of interest, shining a spotlight on how universities respond. Universities were also powerful sources of racist ideologies that supported white supremacy and justified the replacement of Indigenous societies.

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Plagiarism is a Structural Problem

Inside Higher Ed

Dave Tomar’s recently released The Complete Guide To Contract Cheating In Higher Education offers another, extremely explanation: That cheating, to a large extent, is motivated by structural factors : Students who are overwhelmed by their academic and outside-of-class workload. So what should we do? Some steps are obvious: 1.

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