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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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How AI can add the human touch that today’s college students need

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Administrators, meanwhile, are wondering how they can harness AI’s power to benefit their organizations without damaging them. AI is helping us help our students in ways that feel much more human than skeptics of this new technology might have thought possible. This ambivalence is understandable. It contributed to a 3.5%

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Student Worker Organizing Efforts See Drastic Uptick

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Hunter College The “State of the Unions 2023” examines workforce labor trends in New York and in the U.S. at large, finding that despite organization efforts, successful strikes, growing public support, and plenty of media attention, the share of union members among U.S. workers continues to fall.

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Teacher-Run Organization Seeks to Educate Students on Historical Resistance Efforts

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Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. The Rochester region is consistently one of the U.S.’s

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5 tips for college and university presidents to support diversity, equity and inclusion

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There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. Integrate DEI or DEIB into your college or university’s mission statement. Consider the mission.

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Social Justice Finds New Home in Community Colleges

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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. degree in Human Services, Social Justice Advocacy. “We degree at Camden County College.

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How Colleges and Universities Nationwide are Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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As Dr. Martin Luther King Day approaches this year, colleges and universities across the nation are gearing up once again to celebrate and honor the life and legacy of the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Francis College, in 1964, said Shannon Zlotkowski, assistant provost for DEI at UNE. Johnson, Clayton said.

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