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Group Files OCR Complaint Over ‘Discriminatory’ Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education Office for Civil Rights against North Central University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The nonprofit Legal Insurrection Foundation announced it has filed a legal complaint with the U.S. North Central University North Central University The federal civil rights complaint — pursuant to the U.S.

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Is the Dept of Ed Shortchanging Libraries?

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Department of Education (ED) has proposed discontinuing the library component of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). They argue that maintaining this data is crucial for transparency and accountability in higher education, and allows institutions to effectively benchmark and allocate resources.

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Indigenous Peoples in Higher Education: Inherited Histories and Pernicious Status Quos

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Institutions of higher education, specifically land grant/grab institutions, were established as part of these efforts in conquest. As thoroughly documented by High Country News , forced land dispossessions serve as the foundation for institutions of higher education in the U.S. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Alex Redcorn In higher education, we have inherited problematic and pernicious status quos focused on Eurocentric learning for Euro-American audiences toward social assimilation. that offer opportunities for postsecondary education at certificate, associate degree, bachelor’s degree, and master’s degree levels.

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‘Affirmative action made us complacent’: Leaders on their back heels get real on equity

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At Wednesday’s National Summit on Equal Opportunity hosted by the Department of Education, presidents, chancellors, provosts, CEOs and secretaries from across the nation heeded Department Secretary Miguel Cardona’s advice to turn this “low point” in higher education into a “turning point.”

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HBCUs Can Help Reverse the Black College Enrollment Recession

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Instead of succumbing to despair, leaders who value diversity and view it as a strength in our higher education institutions and corporations must step up. Department of Education recently shared with 16 states an analysis that they have been collectively underfunding their historically Black colleges by more than $12 billion.

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The SRHE Digital University Network: A Decade of Trends and Future Directions

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by Katy Jordan, Janja Komljenovic and Jeremy Knox The SRHE Digital University Network was launched in 2012, with a view to present “ critical, theorised and research-based perspectives on technologies in higher education ”. Janja’s research focuses on the political economy of knowledge production and higher education markets.