Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

African American History Month marks a period in which Americans can celebrate together, because it spotlights the possibilities and the promise that the country remains poised to offer, even as we acknowledge the mistakes and shortcomings of the past. The nation owes a debt of gratitude to celebrated historian Dr. Carter G.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Throughout its history, higher education in the U.S. Although Black History Month was federally designated in 1986, similar weekly and monthly celebrations had already existed for more than 50 years. For example, the famous 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins were organized by four North Carolina A&T University students.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

That these same labeled people grabbed hold of the word “pride” to name their movement was an act of civil disobedience against both history and language. Early organizers exchanged secret shame for public pride — self-worth, self-dignity, and self-respect. LGBTQ+ History Month (October in the U.S.) History is another.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma An unconscious ethnocentrism pervades the teaching of American history. When we teach history, we need to take perspectives and experiences that have been marginalized for far too long and bring them to center stage. In 1994, when the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I failed organic chemistry. He didn’t say French, or history, or economics , I thought, racing down the stone path to the dorm. Organic chemistry is hard. Or do well in organic chemistry. First at Brown, then at Yale. They are distinguished defeats, I’m proud to say. It is supposed to be hard.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hamline University faculty leaders are calling for the resignation of Hamline President Dr. Fayneese Miller after her handling of a case where the school dismissed an art history instructor showing depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a course, the Associated Press reported. Dr. Fayneese Miller The majority of members who attended a Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2023

In this regard, the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education hosted a virtual Town Hall Meeting of likeminded organizations to develop an action plan to address the Court’s decision. The organizations listed above shared information on how they mobilized their respective members after the Court issues its ruling.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2024

The gift is the largest unrestricted private grant in UNCF’s history, according to a press release from the organization. The United Negro College Fund, which represents private historically Black colleges and universities, received $100 million from the Lilly Endowment Inc.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2024

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has announced its Woodson Ambassador Program launch for the 109th Annual Conference, Sept. at Harvard University, founded ASALH in 1915, then known as the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. 25-29, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Carter G.

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Academe Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

BY HANK REICHMAN Last week I was scheduled to participate in a Round Table discussion of a recently published book, Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History, edited by Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene, in a session sponsored by the Labor and Working Class History Association at the Organization of American… (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The organizations were formed under a new law that recognizes unions if more than half the members sign authorization cards saying they’d like to join. The faculties at the two schools are the first Maryland community college faculties to organize since the 2021 passage of a collective bargaining bill.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Shepherd’s book successfully relies on archival documents and oral histories from former college students who recount their participation as conservative student activists between the years 1967 and 1970. Shepherd’s meticulous and timely book highlights the right in the history of student activism.” Dr. Stefan M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Repollet Kean University opened Black History Month announcing the creation of a new Center for Africana Studies. We are dedicated to establishing the best, most effective curriculum and programming to ensure they have a full understanding of history to help them shape the future.” All young people deserve to know their past.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 5, 2023

It’s sad that Black students on Seton Hall’s campus are still organizing to receive fundamental resources that we are entitled to.” The event was organized by the group Protect African American Studies (AFAM) Movement. We cannot continue to let this history repeat itself.”

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The funds will be managed by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and Kresge will provide an additional challenge grant of $500,000 to each of the national organization if they raise matching funds. “We We hope other foundations, corporations and individuals will join us in making these donations.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The careers that can come from the certificate and degree programs at these two institutions vary from positions in civic leadership, community organizations and human services, to the continuation of study at a four-year college. Dr. Nicole Jacoberger, assistant professor of history and co-coordinator of the diversity and social justice A.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., Ramos, jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies, serves as an assistant professor in the Department of History at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

JULY 4, 2024

I have a history with College Board, of course. Then--despite the organization's oft-cited commitment to transparency--they stopped. AP Psych is listed twice: First under "History and Social Sciences" and then again under "Sciences." I put the word download in quotation marks on purpose.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Dr. Darius Young Young is a history professor at the FAMU College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. The center, which will open its doors during the 2024-25 academic year, is made possible in part, from funding from two major philanthropic organizations. The Henry Luce Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2024

Dr. Willis L Lonzer III “At no time in our history has exercising our right to vote been more critical with our very Democracy at stake,” said Dr. Willis L. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., is providing grants to its chapters in support of voter education, registration, and mobilization efforts for the 2024 U. election cycle.

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Dan Cohen

MAY 25, 2021

Here’s a fun, brief introduction by Garrett Dash Nelson, with zooming and snapping hand motions reminiscent of Minority Report : And here’s a fuller example on the history of trolleys in Greater Boston: Note that this will work for other digital images, not just maps. I can imagine many uses for education and explanatory journalism.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Racquel Oden is the first woman in Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s 37-year history to assume the role of Board Chair, announced the organization, which was founded in 1987 by Dr. N. Joyce Payne as a bastion of support for Black students seeking higher education. Racquel Oden Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. University of Maryland campus, Memorial Chapel. These [reports and investigations] aren’t designed to make universities look bad. Hughes-Watkins agreed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Organizers with the Freedom to Learn (F2L) network and the Right to Learn (R2L) coalition are planning a rally May 3 in Washington, D.C. Then, organizers risked their lives in opposition to Jim Crow and segregation. The annual Freedom to Learn DC Rally convenes at the Library of Congress, and participants will march to the U.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

In other words, Affirmative Action should have been a beginning policy step, along with lots of educational practice, for organizations to move towards treating everyone equitably across racial categories. There are too many clear indications that in America, individuals, organizations, institutions, etc.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

This is truly a historic moment in the 133-year history of our university,” said WVSU President Ericke S. As the program progresses, students will develop a research project related to their organization. Today, we can proudly say that we are now a doctoral degree granting, land-grant university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Shane Windmeyer At Emory University , those from multiple generations of the LGBTQ+ community were allowed to tell their stories and discuss American queer history at a Jun. 7 event, “Our Stories: A Celebration of Pride and Living Histories.” history, and queer identity. 11 Appalachian Pride Heritage Walking Tour.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

As the fastest-growing technology in human history, it has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. However, organizations must balance its enormous potential against considerable risks. As a tech-driven organization, L&T is committed to harnessing the power of AI to drive engineering and service excellence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At Brown, Simmons led the school’s response and reckoning with its history of slavery and injustice. “I Simmons will also organize a gathering of HBCUs in the fall and will advise on development of partnerships outlined in the Presidential Committee report, including faculty and student exchanges between Harvard and HBCUs.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

Approximately 20 percent of young adults become homeless just after they age out of foster care at the age of 18, and nationwide, 50 percent of the homeless population has been in foster care at one time, according to the National Foster Youth Institute, an advocacy organization.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

When I was here as a student, there was a structure for student-led organizations or student-run opportunities for the development of my Hip Hop identity and spoken word identity, but there wasn't really that curricular environment,” he said. “I

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