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Aus: Colombian student numbers “highest in history”

The PIE News

Colombian student numbers for Australia are now the highest in history, according to new figures in an update from Austrade. In the snapshot update on Latin America’s international student market, Austrade noted its push to get prospective students back to in-person recruitment events across Latin America.

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Hood College receives $54 million, largest donation in school’s history

University Business

Hood College will receive $54 million from Hodson Trust on Monday which is the largest gift in the school’s 130-year history. The educational institution says that 100% of the money will go toward undergraduate scholarships which will benefit the students. Read more from FOX Baltimore.

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Scholarships for Africans in Russia grow by 150%

The PIE News

The number of African students benefiting from scholarships to study in Russian universities has grown by 150% in the past three years and is expected to grow by more than 47,000 students in 2024. The new numbers are expected to see the total number of Africans in Russian universities on state scholarships rise to more than 10,000 in 2024.

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Debunking U.S. History

Inside Higher Ed

history, illustrate this interpretive divide in its starkest form. history is filled with myths that misrepresent and misinform. Certainly, one of history’s primary functions is to puncture disingenuous and overly simplistic understandings of the past. But even if all history is, as James M. As James Q.

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Scholars: Racial Backlash Robs White Students of U.S. History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She said she can’t count the number of white students who, in their evaluations for her African American History, Blacks and the Law, and Civil Rights and Black Power classes, have said, “I was raised to be racist, and taking your courses has allowed me to see things differently.” Thomas, and a fellow at the Institute for Common Power.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What we’re trying to do is create a world that is moving toward justice, perhaps a little faster than the arch of history that bends toward justice, and in so doing education is such a major tool,” says Jakobsen, whose courses include theorizing activism; knowledge, practice and power; and religion, gender and violence.

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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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