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Advancing Accessibility at Adelphi University: A Blueprint for Campus Diversity and Inclusion

Insight Into Diversity

As institutions strive for greater accessibility, their community partners may require guidance for enhancing access in their collaborative efforts. In consideration of this, Adelphi University’s Student Access Office (SAO) has launched a dedicated Event Accessibility webpage to empower university partners to host inclusive events.

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Education Department Revises Restrictions on Race Initiatives

Insight Into Diversity

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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CUNY’s Black Male Initiative Marks 20 Years of Success Amid National DEI Pushbacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Its program, begun under the guidance of then-president Dr. Edison O. Its a historic program, the first in the country like it, the largest like it, and therefore, the history precedes us, says Quash. While she and Rose offer advice and guidance, its their show, she says. They know the program.

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Toward a more inclusive peer-review process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

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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How to Make Teaching More Inclusive, Interactive, Equitable, and Participatory

Inside Higher Ed

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. Resource Development.

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Personal Statements – a redraft rather than a reform?

HEPI

It is clear that these questions are supposed to offer support and guidance to students. The guidance on the new reforms Each of the three questions came with guidance on what a student should include in these sections. These three questions will still be in free-text boxes and still have a total limit of 4,000 characters.

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Ed Department Shakes Up OPMs and Third-Party Servicers: This Is Huge

WCET Frontiers

Department of Education created its own rumblings by releasing new guidance with rules about any contracted services and a series of questions about companies helping institutions with online learning. Instead, the Department issued broad guidance on a wide range of “Third-Party Servicers”. For those in higher education, the U.S.