Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will host a series of events as part of its Third Annual Black History Month Festival this year. Black Resistance has taken many forms throughout history. The theme for this year is Black resistance. Then on Feb. And the Carter G.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A number of the book-besotted figures Denise Gigante portrays in Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America ( Yale University Press ) were fine with being called bibliomaniacs, though few were hoarders. But the distinction does not always hold—and anyway, insisting on it too much comes off as defensive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. In the face of curriculum and book bans and the devaluing of Black history, it is imperative to amplify and uphold African American history.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. My generation of academics was the luckiest in history.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Two new books model radically different ways of studying the past. By Jacob Mikanowski Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock images Two new books model radically different ways of studying the past.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But I want to talk about the war in the context of the final days of Black History Month, and the one historical story I love because it shows Black history is American history is Asian American history. It’s a history lesson and a humanity lesson, that’s always worth repeating. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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ACRLog

APRIL 18, 2023

When I took over the class, I focused on recent examples of books that have been targeted by book challenges and bans, since that has been a relentless topic in the news. I selected most of my titles from the past few years of ALA’s Top 10 Most Challenged Books lists.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

Free expression organization PEN America is suing Florida’s Escambia County School District and School Board, alleging that the district’s recent book bans areunconstitutional. Joining PEN are authors, parents, and the largest book publisher in the country: Penguin Random House.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

“Reed Books” has a nice ring to it, and it might help satisfy the bibliophile in me. Reed Books may thrive in some other universe, but not this one. I’ve been accumulating books for long enough that some of them have accrued meanings entirely separate from what they say. I mean, it could happen, right?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Column: Intellectual Affairs Without making any claim to exhaustiveness, here is a brief survey of new and forthcoming books on information technology and digital media published by academic presses this fall. ” Finally, a book that considers the other AI in depth—ailurophile iconography, that is.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

English professors don’t always have their nose in a book. Lueck is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition at Santa Clara and author of A Shared History: Writing in the High School, College, and University, 1856–1886 (SIU Press, 2020). In today’s Academic Minute, Santa Clara University’s Amy Lueck explains.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

How's his book? How's his book? The journalist shaped the conversation around higher ed. By Len Gutkin Illustration by The Chronicle; photo by Mike Lang, USA Today Network The journalist shaped the conversation around higher ed.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

A hugely present issue when I proposed the course in spring of 2022 was the resurgence of book bans occurring in schools and libraries around the country. Our class, “Banned Books and School Policy,” related to education, of course, but also touched on sociology, political science, history, English literature, religion, and public policy.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Although we’re living in a more progressive society, racial discrimination and inequality can be felt by people of colour in the UK to this very day, emphasising the importance of honouring Black History Month. . So, what is Black History Month and why should you care about it? . The importance of Black History Month.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

I’m hearing rumbles of book clubbing. ” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. You will have to tell us how your book clubbing conversations go, but the likely answer is “not really.” Published in August of 2022. The answers to all these questions are “yes.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has announced its Annual Black History luncheon and theme of African Americans and the Arts for 2024. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has announced its Annual Black History luncheon and theme of African Americans and the Arts for 2024.

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Academe Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

BY HANK REICHMAN Last week I was scheduled to participate in a Round Table discussion of a recently published book, Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History, edited by Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene, in a session sponsored by the Labor and Working Class History Association at the Organization of American… (..)

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The nomination for Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week ago Hakim Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, has been shortlisted for a prestigious history writing prize.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The book is divided across five major themes, and across these themes almost every aspect of the university function within society, obligations to staff and students, how history has shaped the sector today, and what things might look like into the future is covered. No aspect of this book will foster sympathy for university leaders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Esdaile complained about the book, Yale and Slavery: A History , published alongside Yale’s apology. Esdaile said the book did not include information about the university’s historical ties to eugenics and further criticized whether $10 million for student to return to Yale would help people of color.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Developed in consultation with the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise Program will cover tuition, fees, housing, meals, books, and additional educational costs for undergraduates who are registered tribe members. “Frankly, it just felt like the right thing to do,” said Mnookin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Leaders will speak on the connection between book bans, anti-CRT or “anti-woke” laws, and the suppression of other civil liberties and social justice values as part of a coordinated far-right effort to extinguish civil rights at all levels of federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Shane Windmeyer At Emory University , those from multiple generations of the LGBTQ+ community were allowed to tell their stories and discuss American queer history at a Jun. 7 event, “Our Stories: A Celebration of Pride and Living Histories.” history, and queer identity. history, and queer identity. Let’s Read It!:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Brandi Waters, senior program manager of AP African American Studies at the College Board, and Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar, professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She is always looking to center the story of Black women in history, particularly to find ways to make those stories resonate with the students of today.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued. in theater history from The Ohio State University. Theater is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses art, literature, history, design and more, Lee notes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., Ramos, jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies, serves as an assistant professor in the Department of History at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This holiday provides an opportunity to honor and recognize the enduring legacies of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, while also shedding light on the often overlooked and misrepresented pieces of their history. The post Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2023 appeared first on Liaison.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Hill has been writing since she was a child, growing up around books and hearing stories. And the very existence of her book itself made her the first American poet and second poet ever to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing house. “I And then I'm interested in complicating them with the other truths of American history.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“I wanted to throw the government’s own book right back at them,” said Webb. By examining history with a criminal law book at hand, Webb found evidence to charge the U.S. The 3E Program aims to teach unfiltered American history by combining ethics, empathy, and empowerment, the three Es. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Rightwing pundits target knowledge found in critical race theory because they know it leads to action On the first day of Black History Month this year, the College Board announced significant changes to its Advanced Placement African American studies course. But he has fascist friends.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It’s an inspirational message from an inspirational woman who will go down in history as one of the most transformative leaders in higher education. Dr. Ruth J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As debates over how students should learn about race heat up and K-12 schools ban more and more books, it’s an increasingly urgent concern. If I’m a Black child, and I read about myself in a book, I need to read that I have agency over my life just like when I read about a white character.” Any censorship of any kind is bad,” she said.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 4, 2024

We make history as we move through it and that is the hope.’” It’s also part of a collection of stories she shares in her book, What Our Stories Teach Us: A Guide to Critical Reflection for College Faculty. The book may sound like a short story collection, but it’s not. Reference Shadiow, L.

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