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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And the stakes couldn’t be higher for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which for generations have punched above their weight. It has already made history, with an HBCU graduate as the first presidential nominee of either of the two major parties. They serve more economically disenfranchised students than most U.S.

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Black History Month: The Role of Higher Education in Black Activism

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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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Panel: Erasing Black History Threatens to Harm Black Community, Students, and Nation's Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Marcia Vandiver, associate professor of elementary education at Towson University. the NREI website stated.

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Tracking the Draft: An Academic Integrity Policy for Cheating with AI 

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I found multiple articles online which followed this idea, but they were not specific enough to show me how to actually do it or how to use it to develop an academic honesty policy concerning AI. This article will expand on those long-searched for details so everyone will have a process on academic honesty policies regarding AI.

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Impacting Policy and Creating Greater Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Currently a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, Michael Reid, Jr., in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. As an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, Reid was a McNair Scholar. After completing his Ph.D.

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Standing Up to Attacks on Black History and DE&I

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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New Study Reveals the Anti-CRT Agenda is Really about Denying Racism and Revising History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To claim that Europeans’ earliest colonial settlements in the Americas was anything other than a campaign of conquest, rooted in policies and actions that dehumanized indigenous peoples and legitimized violence against them from the very beginning, is nothing more than revisionism and denialism. This could be a positive development.

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