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Standing Up to Attacks on Black History and DE&I

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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NCAA Inclusion Forum Focuses on DEI Initiatives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

INDIANAPOLIS—Amid the ongoing legislative battles that are being waged across the nation against a wide-range of diversity initiatives, student athletes, coaches and administrators gathered over the weekend to affirm their commitment to inclusion, vowing to push back against the onslaught.

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Internationalizing Black American History

Inside Higher Ed

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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Michigan university uses $35K federal grant for diversity, inclusion course

University Business

Led by professor Leland Harper, the initiative was fueled by a $34,905 planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to “design a new, coherent D&I certificate program … that is qualitatively distinct from the D&I certificates offered at other institutions,” records show. Read more from the New York Post.

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What Makes Popular History Popular?

Inside Higher Ed

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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Wayne State University Receives $6 Million Grant for Humanities Faculty Cluster Hire and Black Studies Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. We are committed to building a much more inclusive public research university that better reflects and serves our city, state and nation. Roy Wilson, President of Wayne State. “We