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Descendants of Enslaved Offered Need-Based Scholarships through Partnership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Monique Trusclair Maddox Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation announced applications are open for an advancement of education scholarship program in partnership with Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF). supporting elderly and infirm Descendants. Dr. Harry L.

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Honor and invest in Ukraine through scholarships (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

We educated our campus communities as to what is at stake in Ukraine, facilitated efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian citizens and offered scholarships for Ukrainians interested in pursuing higher education. According to economists, roughly three-quarters of the wealth of most countries is accounted for by human capital.

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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Dr. Orlando Taylor: A Person to Emulate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wherever we went, Orlando knew how to engage people’s hearts through his own scholarship and research, from my shy niece to the President of a powerful university. He honored human beings. He wrote the foundational text in my speech courses.” He was dignified in manner but always had a spark of good cheer and big smile.

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North Carolina Behind in Goal for Educational Attainment; Calls for Greater Student Support

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But by 2016, Allen decided to return to school and complete her education. After earning her high school diploma, she received a Longleaf Commitment scholarship, a last dollar scholarship created by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper through federal pandemic relief funding. “After his passing, I couldn’t cope properly.

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Toward a more inclusive peer-review process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

As John Warner has explained in Slate , this “crisis” of peer review is linked to a much bigger one—namely, the ever-deepening crisis in the humanities and higher education more broadly. Offers more guidance on reviewing different modalities of scholarship. Encourages creativity in peer review.

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The current state of learning in HESA graduate preparation programs: Curricular developments from the last decade.

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The 2015 competencies are : Personal and Ethical Foundations ; Values, Philosophy, and History ; Assessment, Evaluation, and Research ; Law, Policy, and Governance ; Organizational and Human Resources ; Leadership ; Social Justice and Inclusion ; Student Learning and Development ; Technology ; Advising and Supporting. and globally…” (p.