UW Presidential Blog
MARCH 5, 2024
At the University of Washington, women have been making history since the University was founded. In Seattle, new Provost Tricia Serio serves as the University’s chief academic officer. Together, this marks first time in UW history that all four of these leadership positions have been held by women.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 31, 2023
So, when it came time for him to pick an academic pursuit, the study of Latinos and sports history naturally came to mind. I just wanted to understand what [the history was] behind this,” says Burgos. “I Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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University Business
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Hood College will receive $54 million from Hodson Trust on Monday which is the largest gift in the school’s 130-year history. The post Hood College receives $54 million, largest donation in school’s history appeared first on University Business. Read more from FOX Baltimore.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 9, 2023
An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Dr. Sol Gittleman Gittleman, who is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Emeritus, has emerged as one of the nation’s most important interpreters of the history of higher education.
The Guardian - Higher Education
JUNE 5, 2023
Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield College The renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Mansfield College, Oxford.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 12, 2023
She said she can’t count the number of white students who, in their evaluations for her African American History, Blacks and the Law, and Civil Rights and Black Power classes, have said, “I was raised to be racist, and taking your courses has allowed me to see things differently.”
Insight Into Diversity
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Throughout its history, higher education in the U.S. Although Black History Month was federally designated in 1986, similar weekly and monthly celebrations had already existed for more than 50 years. For example, the famous 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins were organized by four North Carolina A&T University students.
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