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Colleges should help disadvantaged faculty attend conferences (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Category: Conditionally Accepted How much an institution helps pay for financially disadvantaged BIPOC faculty to attend conferences indicates how equitable and embracing it truly is, writes Reem Khamis.

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Nursing Home Staffing in Disadvantaged Communities: Academic Minute

Inside Higher Ed

Travers, assistant professor in the Rory Meyers College of Nursing, focuses on the challenges of staffing nursing homes in disadvantaged communities. Today on the Academic Minute , part of New York University Week: Jasmine L. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Morehouse Joins Initiative to Bring College Courses to Disadvantaged High Schoolers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Morehouse College’s Social Problems course typically fills up with freshman and sophomores who want to wrestle with some of the knottiest issues of our time, including interpersonal violence, political corruption, pollution, homelessness, and racial and ethnic conflict.

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Nursing Home Staffing Suffers in Disadvantaged Communities

Inside Higher Ed

Travers focuses on how this issue plays out in disadvantaged communities. Section: Academic Minute File: 11-18-22 NYU - Nursing Home Staffing Suffers in Disadvantaged Communities.mp3 Event's date: Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 3:45pm Insider only: In today’s Academic Minute, part of New York University Week, Jasmine L.

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Columbia University becomes first Ivy League institution to go permanently test-optional

Higher Ed Dive

The university said applicants will not be disadvantaged if they do not submit SAT or ACT scores.

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Harvard, MIT partner on new educational nonprofit funded from edX sale

Higher Ed Dive

The Axim Collaborative aims to improve outcomes among disadvantaged students.

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Equitable research funding requires concerted action

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Inequity in access to research funding drives disadvantage throughout academia. Tanita Casci and Jenny Gladstone see the need for action at every level The post Equitable research funding requires concerted action appeared first on Wonkhe.

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