Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ron DeSantis’ attempts to "bring the state back to the pre-Civil Rights era by banning Black history from the classroom." DeSantis is using his office to sanitize Black history from the education system,” said Sharpton. “He He is sending a message that it is permissible to make racism state policy.

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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. Born in 1942, he was an aspirational child who had his life planned out long before high school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and other unions filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that DOGE staff, including a 19-year-old with a history of leaking information, have been given improper access to millions of Americans' sensitive student loan data, Social Security numbers, and other private records.

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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 9, 2025

DIVERSE : Can you talk about the history of the Institute for Capacity Building and how the UNITE convening came about? It was an idea ahead of its time at the time of its launch, very few funders, organizations, or institutions were talking about capacity building. But history tells us that HBCUs thrive when they work collectively.

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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. Born in 1942, he was an aspirational child who had his life planned out long before high school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. s most segregated school systems, the map states.

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Today's Learner

MARCH 17, 2025

Reading Time: 7 minutes During the month of March, we celebrate Womens History Month. ” – Kim Zoldak Janalyn Kehm Janalyn Kehm is the Department Chair in the School of Business & Computer Engineering Technology at Spartanburg Community College. This years theme is Moving Forward Together!

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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. This year’s CRT Summer School honors the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Summer of 1964. The social justice think tank opened its July 28-Aug.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Public university employees in states lacking collective bargaining rights aren’t letting that exclude them from the current wave of union organizing and action in higher education. “What’s happening now is a new regeneration of that concept, that wall-to-wall organizing,” said William A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

Bolton, who will officially begin her tenure on July 1, becomes the first woman to lead the creative arts-focused college in nearly 90 years and the first woman of color in the institution's history to serve as president. At Georgia Tech, she managed a $3.1

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I failed organic chemistry. He didn’t know that I wrote pages of “news” in second grade or won national newspaper awards in high school or reported for the radio station in college. He didn’t say French, or history, or economics , I thought, racing down the stone path to the dorm.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes The national theme for Black History Month 2024 is “ African Americans and the Arts.” Black History Month 2024 is a time to recognize and highlight the achievements of Black artists and creators, and the role they played in U.S. history and in shaping our country today. ” – Carter G.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

There are few artists in the history of popular music who have innovated as ceaselessly as Usher," said Emory President Dr. Gregory L. Usher, who moved to Atlanta at age 12 to pursue his music career, has become one of the best-selling artists in music history since his self-titled debut at age 15.

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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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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. To make history, it's helpful to know history. Some are doubling down for career advancement, borrowing (sometimes unwisely) for graduate school. In many cases it has been horrifying. Let's be clear.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the upcoming 2024 election , more than 20,000 school board seats will be up for grabs, coinciding with the presidential race. These positions wield significant influence over local education budgets, curriculum decisions, and the hiring and firing of school leaders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Testy has been appointed executive director and CEO of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Testy, the current president and CEO of the Law School Admission Council, begins her new role effective July 1. She also chaired the planning committee for the AALS Workshop for New Law School Teachers in 2010.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Part-time faculty at The New School walked out Nov. With approximately 200 demonstrators present, the strike was the result of years of tension between adjunct faculty and the private New York City school’s administration. Local 7902, the union organizing the strike. The union said that the school’s 3.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Yolanda Pierce will become dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, effective Jul. A public theologian and leader on the role of religion in public life, Pierce is currently dean and professor of religion at the Howard University School of Divinity. 1, pending board approval. She is the first woman in the role.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Wen Mao will become the Helen and William O’Toole Dean of the Villanova School of Business (VSB), effective Aug. Mao is currently vice dean of the business school. During her time at VSB, Mao helped establish the school’s first study abroad program in Asia and has directed its Asian Internship program. Mao holds a B.A.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 19, 2023

The Florida Board of Education voted Wednesday to ban all classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in public K-12 schools, building on a law signed last year by Republican Gov. The post Florida Bans Teaching of Gender Identity, Sexuality in K-12 Schools appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

Civil rights organizations — including the National Urban League, National Action Network, NAACP, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., They include: · Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of National Urban League · The Rev.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MARCH 29, 2023

Reading Time: 10 minutes Communication is key for schools looking to connect with potential students and build meaningful relationships. In fact, great communication and a deep understanding of your target audience are two things that can help your school boost its enrollment numbers.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

AUGUST 21, 2024

Reading Time: 12 minutes Instagram is a highly visual and engaging platform that has become a vital tool for schools to reach prospective students, engage current ones, and showcase their vibrant campus life. This blog will explore the top Instagram trends schools should know to enhance their marketing efforts. Contact HEM today!

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Edu Alliance Journal

JANUARY 27, 2025

During that time, I took on the role of President/CEO of the American Association of University Administrators (AAUA) and dedicated myself fully to the organization. In 1975, I designed my own major in College Administration, combining courses in business, history/political science, and psychology. Hoke has a B.A.

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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. In honor of the legacy and work of ASALH founder Dr. Carter G.

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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

MAY 18, 2023

Free expression organization PEN America is suing Florida’s Escambia County School District and School Board, alleging that the district’s recent book bans areunconstitutional. The lawsuit is asking for the affected books to be put back on school library shelves. "[PEN This is the history of our country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 5, 2023

Dozens of Seton Hall University students and supporters staged a sit-in at Presidents Hall on campus last week to protest the school’s alleged lack of support for its Africana Studies program, NJ.com reported. It’s sad that Black students on Seton Hall’s campus are still organizing to receive fundamental resources that we are entitled to.”

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In many ways, Mason’s College of Public Health represents ASPPH’s [Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health] vision for the future of public health education — one focused on [DEI] and social justice,” says Laura Magaña, PhD, president and CEO of ASPPH. Georgetown University, School of Health.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 31, 2024

Though this feature is available to all social media users, over the past years, more and more companies, schools included, have started using it as a part of their marketing strategy. This significant trend underscores the importance of schools embracing live streaming as part of their marketing and communication strategies.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The project is funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, which support organizations and projects with religious purposes, among others. Recently, an adjunct instructor filed a lawsuit against her former employer, Hamline University, after she was fired for showing classical work depicting Muhammad in her art history class.

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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.

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