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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s scholarship in a different form.” In 2018, Gray and his colleagues won the Best Article Award for a publication in Educational Psychologist, titled “Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures.” They make all kinds of videos, mixtapes, and songs,” he says.

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Focus on DEI in Higher Education: Highlighting Your Work for 50 Years

Insight Into Diversity

As diversity offices began to open on more campuses and the role of the chief diversity officer gained prominence, INSIGHT featured articles focused on institutional efforts that supported progress and growth. This article was published in our October 2023 issue.

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

HEPI

The Commons debated ‘Higher Education’ on 28 November 2012. Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’. It was taken for granted that it should include the conventional principle of institutional autonomy.

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How much demand is there globally for overseas campuses?

The PIE News

The 2008 financial crisis and a recession in China in 2012 led to year-on-year falls in international student flows. Participation can be extended via scholarships to attract the most academically able if they do not have sufficient resources to fully fund a degree at an overseas campus.

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Ford Foundation to end diverse fellowship program

Inside Higher Ed

” Yet thanks “in large part to our extraordinary community of Ford Fellows—through their scholarship and mentorship—we see the seeds of change taking root, and a new ecosystem of support emerging around them,” Walker continued. Fellowships are meant for scholars who wish to teach at the postsecondary level.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Dr. Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs. If Black women don’t research about Black women, nobody else is going to,” she continues. Delaware State’s “Hear Me Roar!”

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

This article will explore how educators can move away from this kind of pathological approach to better help autistic students succeed academically. My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts. Positionality statement. How did we get here?

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