Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college. Among these goals was the February 2022 implementation of a campus-wide culture and climate survey.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The action demonstrates that FNU acknowledges Versailles as traditional territory of the Shawnee and Cherokee people. Topics have included how to communicate about difficult subjects, resiliency, and the culture of India. . The program was hybrid for 2022 and resumed on-campus clinical skills labs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The science track will teach students about the biology, botany, and chemistry of cannabis, while the social justice and policy track will dive into matters of relating to the history and governmental regulations. It's culturally placed for people. Similarly in 2022, the Pew Research Center put the percentage of U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Even though American intellectual history as a research field persists, replete with journals, professional societies, exemplary scholars like Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen and big books, it has certainly shifted from the center to the periphery of the discipline. Some would claim that it flourishes under a new name: cultural history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people. Dunn is teaching on his own about lynching in Florida—there were more lynchings in Florida than Alabama. Mellon Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

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% About 45.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It seemed that College Board’s leadership cared more about political approval from “radical anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ, anti-truth extremists” than teaching children the full history of the U.S., The organization should seek new leadership and keep anti-democratic, segregationist, white nationalistic politics out of our kid’s education.”

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

On the 13 th June 2020, a letter was published in The Times newspaper signed by more than 50 UK-based academics, educators, campaigners, novelists and historians underscoring the timely ‘ need to teach colonial history’ in Britain’s schools. The letter’s signatories were far from alone in making such an appeal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

In the well of the House, a newly sworn in McClellan would note this history and her relationship to past-African American leaders, including John Mercer Langston: “I stand on the shoulders of John Mercer Langston, the first African American to represent Virginia, also from the fourth district,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Students visit Sabal’s Cassava Farm in Belize in March 2022 “Our student demographic is one of the most diverse student demographics in the country,” said Dr. Gundolf Graml, associate VP for academic affairs, dean for curriculum and strategic initiatives, and professor of German. Over 60% of our students are students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Through research and writing about theater, Dr. Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued. I hope the students who study with me don’t just stop at learning about the violence, but what we can do to support each other.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Between 2022 and 2023, government entities introduced 57 measures to restrict the teaching of critical race theory in colleges and universities. Taifha Alexander is director of the CRT Forward Project at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, which tracks efforts to restrict information about race and systemic racism.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

s lifetime, I contend that King's life and work were, in large part, about the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion. King’s work was about diversity: Dr. Marcus Bright King’s actions reflected an understanding that embracing diversity was essential to advancing his civil rights and social justice mission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

My colleagues and I picked up the mantel about five to six years ago.” Bendapudi, who told the helm of Penn State in 2022 after serving as president of the University of Louisville from 2018 to 2021, declined to comment for this article. I want this to be a better place for Black people to live and work,” Black continued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

Jonathan Friedman The school district’s recent attempts to challenge what books its students have access to began in 2022, with Northview High School language arts teacher Vicki Baggett challenging more than 100, including picture books, young adult novels, and nonfiction pieces. This is the history of our country.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Image: University of Kentucky faculty members are working to train hundreds of K-12 teachers in the state to teach about the Holocaust. A 2022 report by the Kentucky Jewish Council details a variety of incidents, including threats to a synagogue and Jewish community center. Kentucky is no exception. How do you pick which ones?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

By the end of February 2022, more than 50 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the U.S. In September 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced they had identified a primary suspect—a minor, whose juvenile status would likely shield them from federal prosecution or charges.

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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

How could a degree in History and Politics be so useful in financial technology? Humanities and social sciences degrees have come under attack for their lack of utility, seemingly not useful in a world of big data and where artificial intelligence could soon penetrate every part of our daily lives. And how did I end up in fintech?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

history in classrooms and class assignments has spread rapidly across the nation. In 18 states , with a population of 118 million—about a third of all Americans—one or more such provisions are now in force. Everything has a history, including racism, gender and sexuality. high schools reported about 1.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

The new contract allows our community to move forward fully focused on continuing to provide our students with an exceptional academic experience." “The new contract allows our community to move forward fully focused on continuing to provide our students with an exceptional academic experience."

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The historical reality that many of these institutions displayed was highly biased, overemphasizing elites, prosperous farmers and planters, and pioneers and reinforcing cultural myths about progress and American exceptionalism.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

A guide encouraged students to focus on one victim and think about whom that person might have been before they were killed in a mass shooting by Nazi forces. ” The next day, a student stood for a long moment in front of another portrait, this time at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

In a number of states in our country, there has been excessive political intrusion by public trustees into the work of universities, attempts to prescribe what books cannot be taught in courses, to insist on particular versions of American history,” he said. “So, To note, according to a 2022 poll from U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Our nation must choose one of two alternative futures. Fred Pearce writes about the paradox of America’s large cities. This new definition cannot be the last chapter of our journey to become the world’s first truly multiracial democracy. America is at a crossroads.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

We provide an education for a diverse group of people, and many of them are part of groups that have been experiencing social injustices,” said Dr. Denise Rossilli, an associate professor and coordinator of the human services program at HCCC. “We degree in Human Services, Social Justice Advocacy. “We degree at Camden County College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

In the 2021 school year, about $10 million went to HBCUs in the state through financial aid, and the year before that it was $12 million. HBCUs come with a tremendous amount of history. When we think about retention rates, especially with Black males—HBCUs are still significant. That’s what it’s all about.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In the international education sector, we are constantly meeting people – at conferences, institutions and agencies, and it’s a constant rollercoaster. The PIE chats to four couples who met in the industry – and the rest is history. At the end of our ride, Maryland was getting in one bus and CSU was getting in another.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

It undermines our ability to foster the innovation, creativity, and solutions needed to confront the challenges we face in our society and world today.” David Canton, director of African American Studies and associate professor of history at UF. I have mixed feelings about it. When I hear that, I'm thinking the 1950s.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Nicole holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in History and Politics and an MA in International Journalism from City, University of London. This project came about after Nicole heard about HEPI’s 2022 report on the educational outcomes of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Published in October 2022. Real worries about the long-term financial viability of our industries as currently constructed. Real worries about the long-term financial viability of our industries as currently constructed. Quick, name five things that academia and journalism have in common.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

This is driving the way people vote, it’s driving what school boards do, it’s driving what governors do. If we do not interrupt it, then our efforts to impact issues like economic policy and education policy will be academic exercises.” The report also includes a special section about environmental justice.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

Just over a month ago, our Prime Minister, Rt Hon Rishi Sunak, made a statement in his speech to the Conservative party conference. Never mind that the 50% target he refers to relates to tertiary education, I am certain he is not alone in believing that too many people go to university. Our job must be to examine the evidence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Hoeg says the timing of their announcement was purely coincidental, as she and the 11 institutional leaders on the Centennial President’s Council have been working to assess and align their campuses’ DEI policies since before 2022, when Centennial released its Student-Athlete Inclusion Policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

Three months ago all of the pundits, media, conservatives were talking about not a red wave but a red tsunami. But "none of that happened,” said Navin Nayak, president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, who moderated a panel discussion titled, “The Role of Young Americans in the 2022 Midterms," on Tuesday.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The History of Higher Ed for Incarcerated Students. Experts argue this intensified high recidivism rates, economic disparity, and unequal educational attainment between incarcerated people and the general population. Here's what you need to know about the state of higher education as it relates to incarcerated students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Dr. Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years. Blank Center for Campus History and a professorship in her honor. Rebecca Blank died Feb.

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