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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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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

Amid a wave of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, Towson administrators announced they would appoint a committee to research the two men’s legacies and determine whether they aligned with the university’s values. Woodrow Wilson’s name was removed from Princeton University’s public policy school in 2020.

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Dr. Claudine Gay’s Resignation from the Harvard Presidency Possibly Saved Her Life

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is also a highly gendered one because history repeatedly illustrates a strong societal lack of care and concern for Black women, resulting in untimely death, insurmountable stress, strategic interference and undermining, and other forces that ensure our time in leadership ends far too soon. It is a loss.

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Are We There Yet? Revising and Questioning Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

My children would ask every 30 minutes of our 12-hour holiday trek from Fishers, Indiana, to my hometown, Fort Worth, Texas. While we no longer make that trek and my youngest finally got it after a while, I still experience similar questions and assumptions about those gas station stops and getting there. Are we there yet?

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Civil Rights Leaders Declare The Freedom To Learn at Rally in Washington D.C.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court to hear from a slate of speakers — students, educators, parents, artists, and leaders civil and human rights organizations like National Urban League President Marc Morial and Kimberlé Crenshaw, cofounder and executive director of African American Policy Forum and a law professor at UCLA and Columbia University.

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It is not too late to shift gears to a more visionary International Education Strategy for Canada 

The PIE News

Undoubtedly, international education is a challenging policy arena in Canada, which makes strategy development for one federal department a monumental task. GAC’s task is further complicated as the responsibility of education policy lies exclusively with the provinces. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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2022 in Review: Building a Movement to Make Pedagogy a Priority in Teacher Preparation

Deans for Impact

In a year marked by mounting teacher shortages, divisive political debates over schooling, and short-term fixes that undermine the value of quality teaching, we worked to champion high-quality, accessible pathways into teaching that are practice-based and focused on equitable instruction. Read on for more of our 2022 impact.

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