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Black History Month: The Role of Higher Education in Black Activism

Insight Into Diversity

Throughout its history, higher education in the U.S. Although Black History Month was federally designated in 1986, similar weekly and monthly celebrations had already existed for more than 50 years. Throughout history, some activists who were for Black liberation found their homes in the academy.”.

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President moves: Recent resignations show 3 reasons why a leader steps down

University Business

The three presidents to step down demonstrate a variety of reasons for making a change: to reengage in academia, pursue other professional opportunities or make way for new leadership during trying times. He currently serves as the CEO of True Empowering LLC, a communications company.

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First Doctoral Program at a TCU Will Contribute to Native Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students can design their own projects to get policies passed with data backing them up — data can help their communities and empower the nation,” says Sage. program, to really empower and instill into our students that we need to do this as a nation,” says Sage. representing hundreds of indigenous tribes, cultures, and languages.

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Working-Class and working in higher education: possibilities and pedagogies

SRHE

It is now accepted that the ‘leaky pipeline’ of academia, whereby ‘non-traditional’ ( eg working-class, BAME) participants remain absent from professorial and higher managerial positions within UKHE is adversely affecting the diversity of scholarship and leadership. arguing that the legacy of elitism persists in relation to higher education.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress.

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Five ways to help students take smart sustainability actions (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. As authors like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker have pointed out, humanity is better off by most measures—wealth, child mortality, education levels and more—than at any point in modern history.

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Dominican University VP builds hope for first-gen students

Inside Higher Ed

They empowered my hope, and I became the first in my family to earn a bachelor’s degree. This past fall, we welcomed the largest first-year class in our history—at a time when college enrollment is dropping nationwide. All the academia fades away in that moment to one prevailing thought: this moment is the beginning.