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What Higher Education Can Learn from a Public Charity Hospital

Inside Higher Ed

Systemic and structural bias are often manifest in disparities in education, healthcare, housing, employment, and criminal justice. Blacks in every age group have significantly higher rates of diabetes, strike, heart disease, and death. Case in point: Healthcare. Black babies die at twice the rate of white babies. Why is this the case?

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects.

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2023 Health Professions HEED Award Field Guide

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity presents the 2023 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award Field Guide with examples of strategies and best practices used by Health Professions HEED Award-winning schools to foster an inclusive campus culture that promotes belonging and equal success opportunities.

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Will Anti-DEI Legislation Cause a Research Funding Drought in Higher Ed?

Insight Into Diversity

As recent anti-DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) laws targeting higher education take effect, research faculty and those who support their work in affected states — most notably Florida and Texas — are concerned about future funding and opportunities to collaborate with peer institutions on key projects.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College.