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Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

or higher and an interest in Black history, life, and culture. There will be a seminar room, study space, and lounge, all headquartered on the first floor of the library. Ford, EHE Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University, said that she is impressed by this effort. "I Dr. Donna Y.

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

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Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered.

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UCLA launches new initiative to study hate

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Myers, director of the initiative and the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, said the study of hate is an ambitious undertaking, but the purpose of a major research university like UCLA is to “ask big questions and seek answers that make an impact in society. It’s supported by a $3 million gift from an anonymous donor.

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Colleges need to address rise of white nationalism (opinion)

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As Christine Saxman and Shelly Tochluk point out on the blog Teaching While White , the Luskin Center for History and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, has a five-part rating system meant to help teachers and parents, among others, identify five stages of indoctrination into white nationalist thought.

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Brian Whalen, AIRC, US

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I think about it in terms of categories of human experience,” Whalen tells The PIE. “My And all of those different rich themes that have existed in many cultures around the world throughout history.” There was no professional development that I knew of, no handbooks, no seminars or webinars, and no Forum on Education Abroad.

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My Take on the AP African American Studies Course Framework and the American Historical Review’s 1619 Forum

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The Higher Ed Gamma blog has provided a platform from which I’ve been able to share my opinions about such hot topics as the future of the professoriate, pedagogy, curriculum design, the humanities, campus activism, academic freedom, in loco parentis , and much more. Does the curriculum reflect the most recent scholarly thinking?

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

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John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union. She called the physicist she met at the summer school.