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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A 2007 Emerging Scholar, Dr. Peniel Joseph (“Interpreting African-American Life and History,” Jan. The most recent 2024 Emerging Scholars cohort now includes 15 up-and-coming academicians. In the magazine world, the most important feature is the cover story. We never set out to be an advocacy magazine. Two decades ago, B.

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Brem Foundation Improves Breast Cancer Outcomes for Underrepresented Women

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Other factors such as family history, having dense breasts, age, and lifestyle can also play a role. The foundation’s newly launched online risk assessment tool, CheckMate , enables women to utilize their personal and family medical history information to assess their breast cancer risk. Nobody knows your body as well as you know you.”●

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John Carroll Nursing Program Prioritizes Marginalized Communities and Addresses Bias in Health Care

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We want students to truly know and understand themselves, because our experiences and history can lead to bias, and bias can influence action. Sigg notes that the link with PNAO originated when a student in one of her honors courses on Asian American history revealed a familial connection.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

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John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.”

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

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“It seems natural that something like this would be our first step into a master’s program or a higher-level degree,” said Brenda Kelly, provost and dean of the college, citing the lengthy history of the undergraduate athletic training program, which began in 1976. ” But enrollment has since declined.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. She will lead the organization in 2024-2025.

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Strong Opposition to Art Sale at Valparaiso

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Gretchen Buggeln, a professor of art history and the humanities who serves on the collections committee for the Brauer Museum of Art on the campus of the Indiana institution, said it’s “completely beyond the pale to use an arts collection as an ATM. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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