Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 18, 2024

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). We are invigorated and inspired by this incredible act of generosity,” said Helene Gayle, president of Spelman College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Racquel Oden is the first woman in Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s 37-year history to assume the role of Board Chair, announced the organization, which was founded in 1987 by Dr. N. Racquel Oden Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Inc. Joyce Payne as a bastion of support for Black students seeking higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Community colleges are designed to serve and meet the needs of the communities where they reside. That’s why Hudson County Community College (HCCC) has decided to offer a certificate of proficiency in social justice and an A.S. Less than 100 miles away, Camden County College (CCC) in NJ is offering a diversity and social justice A.A.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

On Tuesday, a magistrate judge granted an injunction to prevent a professor from receiving potential disciplinary action for refusing to adhere to a new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEIA) policy at the California Community Colleges (CCC) system.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2024

The United Negro College Fund, which represents private historically Black colleges and universities, received $100 million from the Lilly Endowment Inc., The gift is the largest unrestricted private grant in UNCF’s history, according to a press release from the organization.

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University Business

AUGUST 3, 2023

But in an abrupt turn, just before the senate was to vote on formally protesting the school’s changes, the administration blocked a mass email to organize the vote and then dissolved the body and created a new one. In the midst of the strife, the senate’s president, history professor Bruce Dillenbeck, claimed intimidation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. We are grateful for support from the Mellon Foundation,” said Dr. Jennifer Collins, president of Rhodes Colleges. According to the US Census, the city's population is 64% Black.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Action taken While there has been steady advancement over the past 40 years, the murder of George Floyd in 2020 has proven to be a seminal moment that has propelled student-athletes, coaches, and administrators to face issues of race and racism in college sports. Invitational to promote social justice and equity. Four years later, 82.8%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The College Board has released the official framework for its new AP African American studies course. Dr. Marvin T Chiles The release builds upon the pilot program that College Board released and implemented in select U.S. public high schools last year. “I Looking through what they put together, I have no issue with what's here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

College Board will release an updated version of its African American studies Advanced Placement course Feb. Ron DeSantis College Board did not attribute the revisions to Florida’s rejection. The updates are instead part of a revision process with feedback from a 60-city pilot program, the organization said in a statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Repollet Kean University opened Black History Month announcing the creation of a new Center for Africana Studies. We are dedicated to establishing the best, most effective curriculum and programming to ensure they have a full understanding of history to help them shape the future.” All young people deserve to know their past.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

A special kind of energy comes with doing something no one else has, and it’s buzzing around California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State), this spring as early applications are being reviewed for the inaugural cohort of 70 students who will enroll in the trailblazing Black Honors College (BHC).

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Some took to the event’s open mike to share their own cultural histories and stories of how Thanksgiving—the holiday that has helped propagate inaccurate portrayals of Native Americans and colonization—has affected them. Events range from lessons on local tribes’ histories to tutorials on Indigenous arts.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Student support programs are increasingly filling up college and university “To-Do” lists to ensure undergraduates are in the best position to thrive during their studies. However, colleges aren’t doing enough to ensure students are able to transition out of a life solely focused on class and getting good grades.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Educators who train and prepare students to become teachers, gathered this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) to call attention to the ongoing challenges that face K-12 learning. AURORA, Colo.— Supreme Court case that desegrated public schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

The UNCF (United Negro College Fund) recently received a $1 million donation from Robert Kraft, chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group and founder of the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism. Robert Kraft "I am honored to support UNCF in their mission to combat hate and promote unity,” said Kraft. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College Board's decision to revise its African American Studies curriculum has come under fire from many who argue that the changes are motivated by political pressure rather than pedagogical considerations. However, David Coleman, head of The College Board, insists that the changes were not due to political pressure. principles."

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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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ACPA

MARCH 18, 2024

commitment to excellence and encourage all citizens to congratulate the organization on its many Dated this 18th day of March, 2024. commitment to excellence and encourage all citizens to congratulate the organization on its many Dated this 18th day of March, 2024.

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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.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. I think it is easy for lawmakers, the media, and even large sectors of higher education to dismiss small colleges. What is the real impact if a few small colleges close?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. University of Maryland campus, Memorial Chapel. These [reports and investigations] aren’t designed to make universities look bad. Hughes-Watkins agreed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At Agnes Scott College, first-year students are given the opportunity to take their first step into becoming global citizens through its Global Journeys program. Many of these things would not be possible without global connections of where these things are produced, who organizes them."

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Certainly, K-12 education has the potential to play a key part in this work, but as a longtime college professor, I want to see colleges and universities take a more proactive role. Walmart in 2019, killing 23, were both recently enrolled college students. The perpetrator of the May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. ,

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 16, 2024

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) recently received a $100 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., marking the largest unrestricted private donation in the organization’s history. Lomax in a statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

In honor of Pride Month, college and university campuses across the U.S. Now, especially with all the anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, it's important that we have visibility on college campuses and in communities," said Shane Windmeyer., 7 event, “Our Stories: A Celebration of Pride and Living Histories.” history, and queer identity.

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#Deaning

MARCH 27, 2023

The translation has been named by one of Russia’s top literary organizations as one of ten “Books by and about China” for 2023. link] ◾ In hiring news, we are excited to welcome Ann Vandergust to the College of Arts! Ann will be joining us as the Manager, Facilities and Operations. ◾ “Truth or Treason?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

As the largest champion of the Black college community and the only national organization to provide both financial and professional development support to students attending publicly supported HBCUs, TMCF notes that the delays and lack of clarity surrounding Better FASFA are presenting dire consequences for its students and institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Throughout this process, I have learned so much about Texas Southern University, and I am honored to join this esteemed institution with such a rich history,” said Crawford. “I Crawford III was selected as the sole finalist for president of Texas Southern University. Crawford retired after 30 years with the U.S. He served under six U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

In other words, Affirmative Action should have been a beginning policy step, along with lots of educational practice, for organizations to move towards treating everyone equitably across racial categories. There are too many clear indications that in America, individuals, organizations, institutions, etc.,

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

The two organizations have worked together for well over a decade, and this project formalizes the partnership and supports their goals, says Hernandez. We cannot tell a holistic, cohesive story of this country without including Latinx art history in our history.” She also serves as the executive director and curator at CALA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ruth Simmons, the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), will become a senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), effective Jun. At Brown, Simmons led the school’s response and reckoning with its history of slavery and injustice. “I

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Drawing on the expertise of these civil rights organizations, the report examines the legal history of affirmative action in higher education and assesses the Supreme Court’s rulings in the Students for Fair Admissions cases.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9%

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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. Continue reading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. I worked hard to transform the organization because it was pretty lily white,” he says. She will lead the organization in 2024-2025. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E.

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