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UK receives largest gift ever in university’s nearly 160-year history

University Business

The University of Kentucky recently received the largest gift ever in the university’s nearly 160-year history. Late University of Kentucky alum and former trustee Carol Martin “Bill” Gatton bestowed a gift of $100 million to the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment through The Bill Gatton Foundation.

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Celebrating Black History: Now is the Time for Courageous Conversations and Bold Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In February, the shortest month of the year, American communities, congregations, colleges and schools, social and fraternal groups, state and local governmental bodies, and corporate entities, among others, typically pause to celebrate Black History Month. Woodson , dubbed “the father of Black history.” Washington, Carter G.

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University of Maryland Reckons with the Past

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

University of Maryland campus, Memorial Chapel. The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. This project is a counter to that.

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In Retreat: Why the Study of Military History Remains Essential

Inside Higher Ed

Yet despite this fraught reality, military history as an academic discipline is in steep decline, apparently out of the fantasy that if we don’t teach about war, it will go away. ” Like it or not, war is the hinge on which history pivots. Vann Woodward, wrote works of military history are long over.

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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

education or universities, specifically. However, there is a network of tribally run colleges and universities that are the ongoing extension of those sovereignties as well as key vehicles for continuing to liberate the sovereign potential. These priorities often are not the focus in U.S.

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Dr. J. Luke Wood to Become President of Sacramento State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the search for its ninth permanent president, Sacramento State University didn’t have to look far. Wood is currently San Diego State University’s (SDSU) vice president for student affairs and campus diversity and chief diversity officer. Luke Wood, incoming president of Sacramento State University “I'm African American.

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Dr. Melissa Gilliam to Lead Boston University as Historic First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gilliam, a physician and higher education leader, will take on the mantle of president of Boston University, effective Jul. Dr. Melissa Gilliam Boston University Photography Gilliam, 58, is no stranger to firsts. in English literature from Yale University; an M.A And it just isn’t.” Gilliam holds a B.A.