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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

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By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Scholars have noted: the frequent absence of theory and short-term focus of such research ; the proximity of researchers to policy-makers which, it is argued, can make critical distance hard to achieve ; and the fragmentation of the field.

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Brown University Launches Revamped and Expanded Career Services Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These sectors include health and medicine; law; technology; finance and consulting; arts and media; science and engineering; and careers in the common good — nonprofit, government, education, policy, and climate change. Paxson, president of Brown. “In students, and recent graduates. students, and recent graduates.

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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in sociology in 2015 from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from North Carolina Central University. Then, on the other hand, the fact that a lot of education doesn't work out great for all of us. However, her strategy is simple ; she starts with culture.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Banks to serve as president.

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UK Doctoral Program Presents Inaugural INSIGHT Into Diversity Champion Award

Insight Into Diversity

Chaka Cummings The University of Kentucky (UK) College of Education’s PhD in studies in higher education with a specialization in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has presented its inaugural INSIGHT Into Diversity Champion Award to Chaka Cummings. Improving education, specifically for marginalized students, is his passion.

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Higher ed policies drive layoffs and cuts in the UK, Australia and Canada

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Universities in the UK, Australia and Canada have announced staff layoffs and course suspensions as government policies limiting international student numbers cause increasing financial strain. As of April 30, 55 institutions have confirmed cuts, with several thousand academic and administrative posts forecast to be lost in the coming months.

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