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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the most anticipated annual issues each January is the Emerging Scholars edition that features outstanding scholars of color breaking new ground in research, applying scholarship to public policy and grooming the next generation of leaders and professionals. White House Honoree, Jan. Acknowledging Top 100 Degree Producers.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Inside Higher Ed

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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The College Classroom as an Arena of Contention

Inside Higher Ed

Those are just a few of the words that two Fox News critics used in 2007 to describe Rupert Murdock’s agenda-driven rightwing propaganda machine in their riotously funny, profanity-laced takedown, Fair and Balanced My Ass! Outlandish. Mendacious, malevolent, misleading. Dishonest, disingenuous, deceitful. Skewed, slanted, shoddy.

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

HEPI

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The Further Education and Training Act (2007) s.19 This piece is the second part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy. Some FE colleges can award their own degrees.

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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

Inside Higher Ed

This does not affect Limerick’s tenured position as professor of history or her ability to conduct research." The same employee reportedly said that at the wedding, in 2007, Limerick made a personal donation to the center to compensate the staff indirectly for the help. " Personal vs. Professional.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

The MasterCard Foundation—whose work is focused on empowering youth in Africa and Canada’s Indigenous populations— began funding scholarships for CMU-Africa in 2016 and has been involved with the institution ever since. As of now there are seven universities participating in the program; CMU hopes to grow that to 10.