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Despite Increased Visibility, Asian Americans Continue to Face Barriers in Academia

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According to Rachel Endo, PhD, dean and professor of education at the University of Washington Tacoma’s School of Education, Asian Americans frequently experience being overlooked for advancement in academia. “At This article was published in our January/February 2024 issue.

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Insight Co-Publisher Lenore Pearlstein Addresses Future Nurses at University of Houston Commencement

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She compared her career journey to theirs by noting, “Nurses enter this profession to make a difference in other people’s lives, just as I did when I made the decision to buy Insight Into Diversity magazine 17 years ago,” she said. This article was published in our January/February 2024 issue.

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Best law schools: US News is revising rankings after list dropouts

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News is making changes to its 2023-2024 list. Yale University, which regularly lands at the top of the list, kicked off the exodus when law school Dean Heather K. After some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions dropped out of its best law schools rankings, U.S. News & World Report’s best law schools.

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Two top universities in Japan may merge

Inside Higher Ed

The fund will be opened to universities beginning in 2024, according to reports. “This merger will certainly motivate other Japanese universities to think again about the possibilities” of similar moves, said Kazuo Kuroda, dean of the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies at Waseda University.

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Researching Racial Wealth Disparities Through an Architectural Lens

Insight Into Diversity

“The highlight of this project is its focus on participatory planning, a challenge that we will address through … technology and design, merging disciplines, and expertise,” says Eliana Abu-Hamdi, PhD, associate dean for research at Syracuse’s architecture school and principal investigator for the project.

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30 Years After Its Release, Nathan McCall’s Makes Me Wanna Holler Still Resonates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I make this observation as a veteran Black journalist who has written for some of America’s top newspapers and magazines. As a 30-year veteran of the profession, I can attest that what Farrakhan and McCall said in the 1990s is as true in 2024 as it was back then. I’m afraid they are. which it still isn’t after all these years.

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HBCU Medical Schools Growing in Number

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program, CDU provides greater opportunities to study medicine in a setting where the mission of the institution is the same — closing the gap,” said Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the founding dean for CDU’s new College of Medicine. Sealey, the founding dean of the proposed Maryland College of Osteopathic Medicine.