WCET Frontiers

JUNE 18, 2024

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. This acknowledgment is crucial for fostering understanding, healing, and progress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Now I do work in higher education politics and policies, analyzing the legislative bans against critical race theory (CRT) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), says Briscoe. You have erased history, people, resources, and services. He calls her level of productivity mind-blowing. Youll see it in a couple of states.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

I have had my eye on the Mecca my entire career, studying its history and witnessing what Howard means to the culture. His earlier work, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America , won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was recently adapted into an Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. In the face of curriculum and book bans and the devaluing of Black history, it is imperative to amplify and uphold African American history.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

was in the fifth grade when the ideals of justice and civil rights were emblazoned into the mind of the man who has spent much of his storied career fighting for diversity and equity in education. The rest is history. Afterward, he led economic development efforts for the 1983 World’s Fair where he fought for Black inclusion.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 2021, Harvard University handed out 39 bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature, 118 in history, and 22 in philosophy. history survey) without discussion labs or supplemental instruction sessions, that have outsize DFW rates. Equity needs to be more than a floating signifier or empty cipher.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

To ensure music students gain a more inclusive education, universities are beginning to expand their areas of study. As part of its mission, the center will explore the history of Black and African diaspora music, particularly gospel, and its widespread influence on modern music genres. Walton Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In his three years there, he created the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community in Emory’s Graduate School and the Emory Diversifying Graduate Education (EDGE) program. His efforts helped to lead to the graduation of the most diverse class in the history of Northwestern. “We Our discipline is hard. And it’s always been hard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Community Colleges Are Well Positioned Historically, equity and inclusion in higher education have been shaped by various legislation and milestones that improved learner access in America. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Founded in 2018 with the recognition that Black womens perspectives have long been marginalized in academia, BWSA was birthed as a necessary space for scholars dedicated to studying Black womens histories, politics, literature, and lived experiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Diversity Abroad held its 10th annual Global Inclusion Conference this month, where participants had the opportunity to discuss and engage in matters related to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice (DEIBJ). The conference – which ran from Oct. The conference – which ran from Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Chaka Cummings has been appointed the inaugural executive director of The Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky. Chaka Cummings The association – consisting of Berea College, Kentucky State University, the Muhammad Ali Center, and Kentucky History Resources, LLC – will be in the Carter G. Cummings holds a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

When it comes to improving mental health equity on college campuses, more work just needs to be done, mental health experts said during a webinar Wednesday. Then, we can start to address equity from that lens," said Dr. Shawnté Elbert , chief health equity officer at Columbus Public Health. It’s not enough to make statements.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A federal district judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Daymon Johnson, a Bakersfield College history professor, against his college and community college district in which he alleged systemwide rules to ensure employees uphold diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility values chilled his free speech.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award, established by Insight Into Diversity magazine in 2012, was created to recognize and celebrate the exemplary work of colleges and universities committed to advancing DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) principles. a quality increasingly sought after by employers.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. This new edition of the handbook: Makes equity, justice, inclusion and belonging a key component of peer review.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will host its 108th annual meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, from Sep. Woodson, the organization will sponsor a meeting at Jacksonville’s Bethel Church about Black history. Guest speakers for the event include ASALH President Dr. Marvin Dulaney; the Rev.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In legislatures and courtrooms across the country, attempts to ban books, impose educational gag orders, limit what can be taught and by whom, and defund and discredit diversity, equity, and inclusion work in colleges and universities pose a monumental threat to the nation’s future.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Spring 2024 Inclusive Growth and Racial Equity Thought Leadership Lecture Series will feature a fireside chat with Dr. Ibram X. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Professor of History, Director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research, and National Book Award-winning Author. Scheduled for Feb 20, 2025. Kendi, Andrew W.

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UW Presidential Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Juneteenth celebrates a transformational event in American history, a period when our nation moved closer to the realization of the abstract notion of equality. Indeed, in Texas and in other states, we are witnessing a retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion. It brings to mind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 3, 2025

The initial guidance threatened federal funding cuts for institutions using diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and suggested teaching about racism in American historysuch as slavery, segregation, or the internment of Japanese Americanscould be unlawful.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The latest book to suggest how college faculty might draw upon the science of learning to strengthen their teaching and make their classes more inclusive, equitable, effective, and student-centered is Cathy N. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Addressing Controversial Topics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

Kimberlé Crenshaw Civil rights leaders have joined UCLA and Columbia University professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, co-founder and president of the African American Policy Forum, in rejecting efforts to suppress Black history within the national narrative. They include: · Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of National Urban League · The Rev.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

But with the recent recession in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives across America, the notion of any kind of “soft landing” is misplaced – and dangerously misleading. For a brief period, it seemed like America was reckoning with its history. Yet, even as those promises were made, many observers were skeptical.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 25, 2025

Lynn Pasquerella, PhD, president of AAC&U, and Mary Ann Villarreal, PhD, vice president of diversity, equity, and student success at AAC&U, are leading the effort. The Citadel researches the histories of racially minoritized members through archival records. Villareal says.

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University Business

AUGUST 14, 2023

. “Our goal is to build a pipeline of system-level thinkers that are change agents that have a disposition for change, for equity, for students in a way that maybe hasn’t been as intentionally focused in other programs,” says Dr. Doug Anthony, the program’s director.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This week, conference-goers will tackle topics including the attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion, affirmative action and the looming student debt crisis. "We We are excited about the moment we are in as we kick off the 53 rd Annual Legislative Conference," said Nicole Austin-Hillery, President and CEO of CBCF.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

What exactly is diversity, equity, and inclusion? In this video, we explore the history of DEI and how it came under political attack. And why the push to ban it on college campuses?

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Tim’s Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium , which took two years of advocacy and planning, and draws on several more of research across neurodiversity and art education, took place at the University of the Arts Helsinki , modelling best practices for inclusivity, not just for neurodivergent folx. Universities, watch and learn.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

Moore asked me to recite a speech for Black History Month. I stood in front of the entire school, my peers, teachers, and administrators, a sea of majority whiteness, and in February, a month dedicated to people who looked like me, and asked by the only Black teacher at the school, I celebrated my history. inclusion).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Justin Jones of Nashville; Nashville lunch counter sit-in organizer and Freedom Rider Dr. Bernard Lafayette; professor of African American and public history at Tennessee State University, Dr. Learotha Williams; anti-racist writer and educator Tim Wise; and Tennessee youth organizer, Adrianne Gott.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and NCAA President Charlie Baker clearly have different opinions when it comes to the future of diversity, equity and inclusion. Recently, DeSantis signed a biill that will defund programs at all public universities in the state that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

On March 7, Dr. Shaun Harper, university professor, provost professor of education, business and public policy, and the founder and executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center, was watching a livestream from the U.S. Owens called diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives “demeaning and racist.” Dr. Toby S.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Building Connection to Hawaiian History and ‘Āina We live on Native Hawaiian ‘āina (land) and want our students to build their connection to that ‘āina and Native Hawaiian ways of being; this was an essential value in our process. We aimed to reflect that diversity in our textbook by representing the broader perspective of our student body.

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