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Study Finds that Promise Program Still Leaves Racial Gaps

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Founded in 2005, KPromise gives graduates of the Kalamazoo Public School District scholarships that pay for up to 100% of tuition and fees at any public college or university in Michigan and to 15 private schools. The study found that KPromise has many benefits.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts. Journal of Medical Humanities , 26 (2/3), 141–158.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. The demand for professional interpreters and translators continues to grow.”

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Reflections on the state of Chaucer studies (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

He considered him his earliest precursor, the father of English poetry and creator of literary English, powerful mythographies that have enjoyed a longue durée despite nuanced later scholarship. a 2005 survey had already found a decline in Chaucer’s curricular presence. However, these encounters are becoming more rare.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts. Journal of Medical Humanities , 26 (2/3), 141–158.

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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

SRHE

The grants from these bodies are relatively large (for the arts, humanities and social sciences), and are typically expected to make a theoretical, not only empirical, contribution. NB Data are available from 2004, but no education grants are recorded for either 2004 or 2005.

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

UNESCO (2021 ) have called for HE to ‘repair injustices while transforming the future’ by 2050, with a new ‘social contract’ that prioritises ‘human dignity and cultural diversity’, plus ‘care, reciprocity, and solidarity’. Three Hearts and Nine Minds. TP features three EDI tenets and nine dimensions. Circulation, Courage and Curating Change.