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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

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Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Health Equity, Working to Identify Effective Policy Interventions

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Since 2009, she’s been engaged in research relating to health services and health equity, she said. “My In addition, I identify effective health policy interventions by really looking at different natural experiments and different healthcare behaviors and interventions to address health disparities and equity.” Hung earned her Ph.D.

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Emerging Scholars Express Hope, Validation, and Drive During Webinar

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's 2024 Emerging Scholars shared sentiments of drive, hope, community, and validation during a webinar Thursday. It's been something that has sustained me in academia, the service work that I do,” said Dr. Melva Treviño Peña, an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island.

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Diverse Ushers in New Leadership

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education , the national publication that focuses exclusively on diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia, has announced a major change in leadership, a few months before the trade publication is set to celebrate its 40 th anniversary. William Cox Jr. Diverse Vice President William Cox, Jr.,

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Harvard Put Its First Black Woman President in the Crosshairs of a Culture War without a Shield

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However, this is not about President Gay’s specific case; it is about the larger canvas it paints – a chilling tableau where anti-Blackness and misogyny find fertile ground even in the progressive halls of academia. Harvard, and by extension, the entire higher education community, needs to do more than issue platitudinous statements.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

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Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia.

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Nursing Schools Teach Advocacy Skills to Help Advance Health Equity

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Increasingly, this centers around health equity. To further advance advocacy and equity in health care, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Nursing will launch a new program in 2023 to teach nursing students about policymaking. Experts from these universities say major national discussions on health care must include nurses.

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