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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Thriving and Flourishing While Black and a Student: What can PWIs do?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For Black people to flourish and thrive, they need an environment that supports their holistic growth. And targeting of faculty by groups such as Idaho Freedom Foundations does not provide a campus environment where Black people feel safe. However, to be holistically successful by flourishing, a person needs the right environment (i.e.,

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Are We There Yet? Revising and Questioning Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hughes Because I claim antiracism scholarship and practice antiracism in every space where I am present, I am often questioned and challenged. Some parts of history have been suppressed in many states, books banned, curriculum and conversations disappeared, and even research agendas are on hold or downright outlawed and controlled.

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National University Announced The Launch Of The Cause Research Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

National University (NU) announced the launch of the Cause Research Institute (CRI), a new applied Research and Development arm that will coordinate research, scholarship, and other innovation efforts focused on social sector challenges, including education, health, human services, and criminal justice.

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Help Your Students Become the Heroes of Their Own Lives

Inside Higher Ed

When the novel’s narrator asks whether he will be the hero of his own life, he is in fact grappling with an issue, human and historical agency, that has become central to academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Few words carry as much interpretive weight as “agency.”

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The current state of learning in HESA graduate preparation programs: Curricular developments from the last decade.

ACPA

For example, the ACPA/NASPA Competencies document aims to “set out the scope and content of professional competencies required of student affairs educators in order for them to succeed within the current higher educational environment as well as projected future environments” (2015, p. By Renn & Reason, 2021). and globally…” (p.

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A Defense of the Senior Diversity Officer in Politically Charged Times

Insight Into Diversity

Although UC has provided pathways to social mobility for countless Californians, those efforts took place over the past three decades in environments that were often hostile to equity and inclusion. Our newer faculty ranks are at their most diverse in UC history.