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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.” Gray says he felt pressure to produce another article when a friend came to him and said that the idea was not done because the scholarship was just one leg of the relay. Gray began conducting youth programs when he arrived at North Carolina State as a professor in 2012.

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

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This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The Commons debated ‘Higher Education’ on 28 November 2012. This piece is the second part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy.

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Native American Studies Programs Struggle to Recover from COVID-19 Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is a whole history of disparity there, health disparities even prior to the pandemic. Lee says one of the department’s solutions for adapting to the pandemic was to provide technology scholarships that enable students to purchase tech items with which to do their research and assignments at home.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita. We have also increased the financial support for those students that will help them access emergency funds, paid internships and more scholarships.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

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In 2012 the Finch review of options for academic publishing seemed immediately to have got it wrong, as later experience showed: … we must look beyond Finch for the open access formula that ‘maximises benefits and minimizes risks’. (No In sum, we seem to be edging closer to repeating the history of rail privatisation.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

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The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational. to offer scholarships to DACA students. For Farmingdale State College (FSC), DEI means “for all.”