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UCLA Alumni Couple Pledges $10 Million to Ethnic Studies Centers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From the very beginning, we thought the notion, the concept, the feeling about creating ethnic studies centers at that point in time would be a good thing for education, research, and teaching,” said Morgan Chu. And over the years, we saw that it was a very good thing. “It from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard University.

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Pride in the Halls

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It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3%

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A Race Scholar

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But despite all that, Willowbrook Middle School — it has since been renamed Compton Early College High School — stood tall as a beacon of hope, a powerful symbol of what was possible if educators and policymakers made a serious investment in urban education. It was like a lifetime away.” You got down.”

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

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Mumpower told lawmakers that university leaders should have foreseen a housing crisis, given that it more than quadrupled its 2022–23 scholarship budget to $28.3 “It is over one-third more students wanting to come to TSU, so we adjusted our scholarship budget,” Glover said. million, from $5.2 1 through Oct.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

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12 December · Episode 185 AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education 49 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

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by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Teaching-only’, ‘Teaching and Scholarship’ and ‘Teaching-focussed’ academic jobs have become increasingly common.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

President Joe Biden, left, is flanked by Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. Department of Education (ED). Biden Administration U.S.