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Game Changers and Change Makers: Black Publishers’ Defiant Mark on History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Since the second decade of the nineteenth century, black-owned book publishing has existed in the United States, the books released by these publishing enterprises have vindicated blacks, documented black culture and history, and addressed the special concerns of black people in ways which white book publishers have not.

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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. My own institution, Kansas State University, used land entirely from the Kaw (Kanza or Kaá?ze)

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UA Libraries’ Digital Archival Project Empowers Voices Among U.S.-Mexico Border Communities

Insight Into Diversity

Serving as the heart of knowledge and scholarship in higher education, academic libraries are uniquely positioned to advance and support digital and data-driven storytelling and archival efforts, especially as they relate to marginalized communities. Children of the Mexican Folklore Club reenacting Las Posadas procession, 1959.

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Rhodes College Awarded $800,000 for Research on Racial Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rhodes College The three-year grant will provide funding for the research and documentation of Memphians stories who are often absent from the narratives about the city. And we are a vibrant, culturally rich city with a very interesting history that the rest of the world doesn't know much about.”

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. Tenure is a key moment at which people exit university doors, perhaps because the doors slammed shut. Nikole Hannah-Jones at University of North Carolina and Dr. Cornel West at Harvard ) reveal a broader systemic pattern.

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140,000 mobility programs funded by DAAD in 2022

The PIE News

The budget increase has allowed the organisation to fund more individuals overseas for mobility programs than ever before in its history. “Russia’s attack on Ukraine has brought a delusional pursuit to forcefully adjust history back to our continent. Target countries are Pakistan, Bangladesh and Kyrgyzstan, the document noted.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Inside Higher Ed

Image: An enrollment surge at Tennessee State University combined with a lack of student housing led to a scathing comptroller’s report calling for a change in the historically Black university’s leadership. Lowe voted in favor of the one-year extension. million, from $5.2 million the previous year.