Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. In the face of curriculum and book bans and the devaluing of Black history, it is imperative to amplify and uphold African American history.”

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Black History Month exists to honor and celebrate the resilience and strength of the Black community in the face of adversity, and it’s the perfect time to commit to broadening our perspectives and foster understanding through the power of literature.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

That these same labeled people grabbed hold of the word “pride” to name their movement was an act of civil disobedience against both history and language. LGBTQ+ History Month (October in the U.S.) History, of course, is a source of pride. History is another. History nourishes pride. Pride energizes history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But I want to talk about the war in the context of the final days of Black History Month, and the one historical story I love because it shows Black history is American history is Asian American history. It’s a history lesson and a humanity lesson, that’s always worth repeating. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Academe Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In the excitement (or disappointment) last Tuesday, however, the ongoing national struggle over history education received short shrift. Would it be the seventh state in a row to recognize a woman’s bodily integrity as a constitutional right? Buried in…

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

How we view the past is always colored by our present-day vantage point, but long before the recent surge in Black migration from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, African American history and culture had an international dimension. Comparative, transnational, and diasporic history can take many different forms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will host a series of events as part of its Third Annual Black History Month Festival this year. Black Resistance has taken many forms throughout history. The theme for this year is Black resistance. and virtually on the association’s YouTube channel.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Image: In 2020–21, history faculty job postings hit their lowest point since the American Historical Association started tracking openings in 1975, at just 347 positions total. H-Net, another popular job listing site, showed a similar year-over-year increase, with 670 jobs in history and area studies for 2021–22.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

February 1st marks the beginning of African-American History Month , a chance for us to memorialize the many achievements and contributions that African Americans have had, and continue to have, on our history and culture. Celebrations and Education African-American history is American history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Dr. Sol Gittleman Gittleman, who is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Emeritus, has emerged as one of the nation’s most important interpreters of the history of higher education.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Throughout its history, higher education in the U.S. Although Black History Month was federally designated in 1986, similar weekly and monthly celebrations had already existed for more than 50 years. Throughout history, some activists who were for Black liberation found their homes in the academy.”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Department of Education for a program to teach K-12 teachers about civics, history, and media literacy. Lauren Harris, an associate professor of history education, and Dr. Leanna Archambault, professor of learning design and technology. Arizona State University (ASU) faculty have received $1.6 million from the U.S.

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Christian institution will take other steps to redress its past, including by assessing its support for students of color.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A UK-based charity tasked with rescuing academics at risk from persecution, violence and conflict has reported that appeals for help are now at their highest point in its 90-year history. ” The post Record demand for scholar charity in 90-year history appeared first on The PIE News.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TENURE-STREAM ART HISTORY FACULTY The statement was issued on January 13 on the website of the UMN Department of Art History with the note, “No images other than the painting of Jonah and the Whale appear in this story.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) has received $4 million, the largest gift commitment in the school’s history. The commitment was made by SMCM alum R. Scott Raspa, a class of 1986 graduate, and contributes to SMCM’s 2023 $20 million Taking the LEAD fundraising campaign. The money will go toward the school’s endowment and the R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 1, 2023

The recommendation came in a wide-ranging report about how colleges can better support students who were formerly incarcerated.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

How books got organized. By Catherine Gallagher Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock images Nicholas Dames's new book considers a literary feature that scholars usually neglect.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Employment data for the 2022–23 academic year confirm that the hiring of college history professors since 2016 has been “lethargic but stable,” according to a recent report from the American Historical Association Career Center.

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The PIE News

MARCH 16, 2023

Colombian student numbers for Australia are now the highest in history, according to new figures in an update from Austrade. The post Aus: Colombian student numbers “highest in history” appeared first on The PIE News. 2023 is shaping up as a very strong year for Australian student recruitment from the LATAM region,” the update said.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Shaloun Mims is a student at The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee   and a Cengage student ambassador Throughout my academic journey, the meaning of Black History Month has changed tremendously. Black History Month was the celebration of their stories and how they paved the way for the lives of Black people today.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 23, 2023

University of Chichester proposes redundancy for Hakim Adi, first Briton of African heritage to become a professor of history in UK A university has come under fire for proposing to make the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK redundant and cut the course he runs. Continue reading.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Thorson, professor of earth sciences at the University of Connecticut, explains what we can learn from the history of stone walls in the Northeastern U.S. Today on the Academic Minute: Robert M.

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UW Presidential Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

From the very first graduate of the University of Washington to policymakers , scientists , entrepreneurs , educators and pathbreakers of all kinds, the UW has been home to countless women who have made – and are making – history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2023

and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019). As Gonzalez completes his graduate studies at Claremont Graduate University in California, he is preparing to defend his dissertation before departing for a faculty position this fall at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield College The renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Mansfield College, Oxford. Continue reading.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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University Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hood College will receive $54 million from Hodson Trust on Monday which is the largest gift in the school’s 130-year history. The post Hood College receives $54 million, largest donation in school’s history appeared first on University Business. Read more from FOX Baltimore.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Although we’re living in a more progressive society, racial discrimination and inequality can be felt by people of colour in the UK to this very day, emphasising the importance of honouring Black History Month. . So, what is Black History Month and why should you care about it? . The importance of Black History Month.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Chaka Cummings has been appointed the inaugural executive director of The Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky. Chaka Cummings The association – consisting of Berea College, Kentucky State University, the Muhammad Ali Center, and Kentucky History Resources, LLC – will be in the Carter G. Cummings holds a B.A.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Two new books model radically different ways of studying the past. By Jacob Mikanowski Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock images Two new books model radically different ways of studying the past.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ron DeSantis’ attempts to "bring the state back to the pre-Civil Rights era by banning Black history from the classroom." DeSantis is using his office to sanitize Black history from the education system,” said Sharpton. “He

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The expansion of higher education uprooted hundreds of Black families. By Louis Hansen Deborah Taylor Mapp The expansion of higher education uprooted hundreds of Black families.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The post HBCU Football Player Makes History as First to Come Out as Gay appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity. Perkins also received praise on social media for his bravery from notable sports author Jeff Pearlman and others, who commended him for his bravery in coming out as a player in a hyper-masculine sport.

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Caylor Solutions

MAY 4, 2023

Having a rich history is an incredible asset. The post Leaning on Legacy Branding: Blending History in Enrollment Marketing appeared first on Caylor Solutions. But how much should you rely on legacy branding for your school?

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