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UA Libraries’ Digital Archival Project Empowers Voices Among U.S.-Mexico Border Communities

Insight Into Diversity

Serving as the heart of knowledge and scholarship in higher education, academic libraries are uniquely positioned to advance and support digital and data-driven storytelling and archival efforts, especially as they relate to marginalized communities. Communities along the U.S.-Mexico

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Understanding Academic Exile After the 2024 Election

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s a label that marks us as “unwelcome” and our scholarship as “controversial.” For many of us whose work or lived experiences connect race, gender, history, or sexuality, within education, exile is less about leaving and more about staying in a space where we know we’re not fully welcome.

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Single Parents Breaking Barriers Through Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2019, we proudly launched the Single Parent Scholarship initiative, which provides financial assistance and support services to single parents who aspire to earn a college degree. This scholarship has proven instrumental in dismantling barriers and creating avenues for single parents to realize their academic and career pursuits.

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Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We believe this project will have a profound impact on student success and well-being, empowering them to focus on their education and future.” Jakes Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, the first graduate program the school’s history. The college has also partnered with the Jakes Divinity School since 2023 to offer a T.D.

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Juneteenth, Higher Education, and Advancing Educational Equity

WCET Frontiers

Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19th, marks a pivotal moment in American history—the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom, years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

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How can we access the non-economic benefits of the Humanities?

HEPI

The humanities are the study of the arts, history, language, religion and philosophy. They work towards making the history of human endeavour – centuries of attempts to live well – present to us and available for our use. Humanities scholars are specialists at recovering that information.

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Rhodes College Awarded $800,000 for Research on Racial Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We strive to empower students, faculty, staff, and community members to address contemporary social issues through intellectual inquiry, reflective dialogue, and community action." And we are a vibrant, culturally rich city with a very interesting history that the rest of the world doesn't know much about.”

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