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Game Changers and Change Makers: Black Publishers’ Defiant Mark on History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Since the second decade of the nineteenth century, black-owned book publishing has existed in the United States, the books released by these publishing enterprises have vindicated blacks, documented black culture and history, and addressed the special concerns of black people in ways which white book publishers have not. Cornish and John B.

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Doing What’s Right

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If you look at the history of ethics — figuring out what’s the right thing to do, etc. — the longest history is connected to practice of medicine,” Moazam says. “So, CBEC, inaugurated in 2004, is the only bioethics center specific in its focus on bioethics research and education in Pakistan, according to Moazam.

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Finlandia University is the latest private college to fall

University Business

In November, The Hechinger Report found 861 colleges had closed since 2004. To preserve its roots in Finnish culture and history, Finlandia Foundation National partnered with the school to preserve the school’s Finnish American Heritage Center and its related artifacts.

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Conveying Fragility

Inside Higher Ed

” I raised an eyebrow, but it made sense; she was born in 2004, so he had mostly left public life a generation before she was born. She’s wildly bright with a steel-trap memory, but she was also born in 2004. The fad for declaring the “end of history” in 1989 came from that story. (I’ve

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Bay State College at Risk of Losing Accreditation

Inside Higher Ed

Bay State received approval to award associate degrees in 1975 and baccalaureate degrees in 2004. representative Ayanna Pressley, also from Massachusetts, had called for scrutiny of the college given its “troubling history of fraud and mismanagement.” Bay State's accreditation is set to be withdrawn Aug.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

López took on another mentor role as assistant director of UT Austin’s University Outreach Centers in Houston after graduating in 2004 with bachelor’s degrees in ethnic studies (Mexican American studies) and Spanish (Hispanic studies). "My TRIO programs supported my path toward college,” says López.

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Creating Education Pathways for First Generation Students with Dr. Karen Haynes | Changing Higher Ed 024

The Change Leader, Inc.

She was the longest-seated president in the CSU system and the first woman to hold this role in history. Haynes began her presidency in 2004 when the institution had a student population of 7,000 and an alumni base of 13,000. Karen Haynes retired as president of Cal State San Marcos on June 30, 2019.