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Alumni Influence to Facilitate Diversity Starts With a One-Dollar Donation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Harvey Nevertheless, some of these alumni maintain various levels of contact with their alma maters – ranging from attending reunion events, to regularly reviewing materials they receive from the college or university, to making monetary donations they hope will help produce a more inclusive atmosphere for current and future generations.

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Spelman College Receives Largest Single Gift to HBCU

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Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). the largest unrestricted private donation in the organization’s history.

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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

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Woodrow Wilson’s name was removed from Princeton University’s public policy school in 2020. The University of Maryland system, for example, added name-removal procedures to its existing naming policy a few months after the Towson committee began researching the backgrounds of Paca and Carroll. Denaming Processes.

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Center for Politics and Race Honors Late New Jersey Lt. Governor

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Oliver's legacy will continue to inspire our center as we expand access to public service as a profession and promote research and public policy that confronts systemic inequalities,” said Dr. James Jones, a sociology and Africana Studies professor at Rutgers-Newark and co-director of the Sheila Y. Oliver , who died while in office Aug.

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Law school "denaming" sparks donor debacle

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History and posterity will judge the University and the Board.” He also donated over $35,000 to the law school—a substantial sum at the time—and gave more to the university throughout his life. ” Thomas C. Williams enrolled at what was then called Richmond College in 1848.

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Commentary on Daniel H. Weiss, "Why the Museum Matters"

Inside Higher Ed

It is among the oldest examples of what Weiss calls an “encyclopedic” museum, aspiring to “collect art and archeological materials from the great epochs of human history across the vast geographies of the world.” How much they may overlap with those of a science or history museum is not addressed.).

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Provost at Western Michigan University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is also unprecedented to have an educational policy expert leading as a provost at a major research institution that boasts a student population of about 24,000. “We in educational administration and policy analysis and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University.

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