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

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. The rest is history. It’s all about policy—you have to make changes there to see real progress.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2025

Making history as the first South Asian American woman to serve as dean of an ABA-accredited law school, Setty has been particularly focused on diversity and inclusion in leadership roles. "We We must collectively do more to support those who have been historically excluded from leadership roles," she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. The rest is history. It’s all about policy—you have to make changes there to see real progress.”

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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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SRHE

APRIL 22, 2025

by GR Evans The Office for Students has found that the Trans and Non-Binary Equality Policy Statement of the University of Sussex involves breach of two of the relevant OfS Regulatory Requirements in late March 2025, and imposed an unprecedentedly substantial fine. It has chosen to describe them collectively as policies.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 3, 2025

Department of Education has modified its previous directives on race in hiring, scholarships, student programs, and other educational policies. Since coming into power, the new administration has focused on enforcing conservative legal principles in education, particularly regarding race and gender policies.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

On Tuesday, a magistrate judge granted an injunction to prevent a professor from receiving potential disciplinary action for refusing to adhere to a new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEIA) policy at the California Community Colleges (CCC) system.

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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.

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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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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. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Like many neurodivergent academics, Tim works across an astonishing range of knowledges, including political science, fine art, public policy and pedagogy. Caption: Love-led guidelines for to make spaces more inclusive, in diagram form with 8 blocks of texts. Universities, watch and learn. Yes it can be done. From Tan, Kai Syng.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Racial justice advocates are turning out for the Fifth Annual Critical Race Theory Summer School hosted by the African American Policy Forum. The social justice think tank opened its July 28-Aug. 2 summit with a plenary titled “Tip of the Spear: Tennessee on the Frontlines of the War on Woke.”

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University Business

JANUARY 31, 2025

Ohio college students and faculty members are slamming a bill proposed by Republican lawmakers that would ban diversity and inclusion efforts, prevent faculty from striking, set rules around classroom discussion, and imperil scholarships, among other things. Tom Young, R-Washington Twp., introduced House Bill 6, the companion bill to S.B.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cheryl Ponder has been named assistant vice chancellor for advocacy, inclusion, and support programs in the Division of Student Affairs and Campus Life at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. in educational leadership and policy studies from the University of Oklahoma.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 23, 2025

Since the 1960s, these tensions have only deepened, exacerbated by policy shifts that have served to entrench inequality rather than dismantle it. This means prioritizing policies that restore public investment in education, dismantle student debt, protect academic labor, and democratize decision-making processes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. How do we do this?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

Dr. Denisa Gándara, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the study. They need to be aware that algorithms can be biased and unfair because of bias in the history, data. It is essential for institutional actors to understand how models perform for specific groups.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Institutions, said Hall, need to ask themselves if their policies and practices are further silencing an already silenced population. We use languages that are not inclusive. college and university leaders connecting the dots between immigration policy and its impact on students. Black undocumented students] are invisibilized.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

They point to the grow number of states who have passed legislation —most notably Texas and Florida—that make it more difficult to teach about Black history for example. She said that the history of school vouchers and charters, which has since been codified in state charters, is the lingering resistance to the historic 1954 U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity & inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. LaVar Charleston studied public relations, marketing, educational leadership and policy analysis. history, gender and race with the law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

history makes white children feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish, and psychological distress ,” without any consideration of Black students’ feelings of isolation and unimportance. Clearly, legislators’ denouncement of African American studies is a denouncement of Black people, Black history, and Black culture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

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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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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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2024

In fact they are slowly spiraling towards their conclusion, just as OA policies are moving, albeit circuitously, towards full implementation. The policy trajectory has not been straight because so many technical, commercial and cultural arguments have had to be overcome to forge a way ahead.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 25, 2025

These centers promote racial healing and address inequities by emphasizing grassroots, people-centered activities and policies to improve understanding and cooperation across the broad spectrum of American experiences. The Citadel researches the histories of racially minoritized members through archival records. Villareal says.

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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. What we are witnessing is not a quiet sunset; it’s a systematic dismantling.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

in history from Arizona State University. Villarreal served as vice president for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University of Utah, where she was also an instructor and assistant professor of history and ethnic studies. Villarreal holds a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D.

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Deans for Impact

DECEMBER 13, 2022

At Deans for Impact, we stand committed to elevating teachers and teaching and equipping all future teachers with the scientifically-based tools to create rigorous, equitable, and inclusive learning environments where all students thrive. Advancing policy efforts to attract, prepare, and support a diverse educator workforce. ▸

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Drawing on our experience as Co-Founders of statewide HSI consortia, we propose three institutional considerations for eHSIs: coalition building for learner support, community integration, and culturally attuned policies and practices. This includes revising policies and curriculum design to better serve this population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

National Park Service According to the analysis, Building a More Inclusive Agenda: A Survey of Congressional Priorities Across Race — Racial Equity Priorities , more than half of respondents (54%) said this kind of hiring is important, with Black respondents (68%) voicing the most support.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2025

This has led to accusations of greenwashing, in which universities (willingly or perhaps erroneously) overmarket and/or underdeliver their sustainability policies, and climate hypocrisy , where an internationalist agenda frames student recruitment (the drive towards overseas markets), research activities and partnerships.

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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 PIE News

AUGUST 29, 2024

.” On August 29, Atherton said that along with the university’s rich history with India, one of the main reasons for setting up the campus is because of the quality and talent in Indian students and institutions.

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