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Universities Review Legality of Diversity Scholarships

Insight Into Diversity

Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) banning of race-conscious admissions last summer, some colleges and universities are considering the legality of certain diversity-focused scholarships. Given SCOTUS’s past rulings, some legal experts argue that diversity scholarships could be the next DEI component on the chopping block.

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Is Academic Scholarship Stagnating?

Inside Higher Ed

I should add that neither US News nor the educated public has much understanding of what a first-tier, cutting-edge English or history or sociology department would look like. Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements? Previous analytical paradigms didn’t lasted nearly so long.

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Scholar-Activist Elevates the Histories, Identities of Queer Latinx

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He draws upon scholarship in critical race theory and Jotería studies in education and invites his research participants to become co-creators and to be in conversations, or pláticas, with him. and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019).

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What Makes Popular History Popular?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. Worse yet, from the professional historians’ vantage point, the popularizers too often failed to take into account relevant, up-to-date scholarship.

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U.S. institutions offer scholarships to Ukrainian refugees

Inside Higher Ed

candidate—and became one of the many Ukrainian students currently benefiting from scholarships offered by U.S. The scholarships are expected to cost between $5 million and $6 million in total, to be funded through private philanthropy, according to a university spokesperson. So she returned to KU—this time as a Ph.D.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. Even if they were to attend, we do not offer any courses on Kaw language, government, or history.

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Center for Politics and Race Honors Late New Jersey Lt. Governor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It also serves as a resource that disseminates high-quality data and faculty scholarship on race and politics at the national and state level and a place for cutting-edge training in political research methods and data analysis. The New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson announced a donation to fund the Lt.