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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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

The University of Mary Washington, a public liberal arts university in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has received the largest gift in its 115-year history - a $30 million estate gift from alum Irene Piscopo Rodgers. Rodgers had previously created eight Alvey scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López "I've been in the classroom on and off, but I've been supporting youth and students in different ways throughout that time,” says López, who is starting a new chapter of her career as a tenured associate professor in educational leadership and policy in the University of Arizona College of Education. At Boulder, where she holds a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

West Virginia State University has announced it is launching its first doctorate degree program this May. Cage The Doctorate of Education in Leadership Studies would be the first doctoral degree conferred at the historically Black university. Today, we can proudly say that we are now a doctoral degree granting, land-grant university.

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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. Worse yet, from the professional historians’ vantage point, the popularizers too often failed to take into account relevant, up-to-date scholarship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

has been tapped to become dean of the Howard University School of Law. Fairfax is a passionate legal educator whose extensive scholarship and commitment to criminal justice reform are deeply aligned with the law school’s mission,” said Howard President Dr. Ben Vinson III, who announced the appointment effective July 1, 2024.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. It’s part of a consortium of other neighboring private African American colleges and universities, including Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Morehouse School of Medicine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

education or universities, specifically. However, there is a network of tribally run colleges and universities that are the ongoing extension of those sovereignties as well as key vehicles for continuing to liberate the sovereign potential. These priorities often are not the focus in U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. My own institution, Kansas State University, used land entirely from the Kaw (Kanza or Kaá?ze)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Toldson CRT is a body of scholarship that spans more than 40 years, which examines the ways in which structures of power and privilege are embedded within existing social, cultural, and legal systems. They are for denying racism and revising history, by any means necessary, including by advancing draconian censorship legislation.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Education is a diplomatic tool, and the way governments use (or abuse) education and scholarships in their international relationships gives us a clear insight into how governments view their diplomatic partners. There is also a small scholarship for Pacific students to study at Pacific universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Image: Andriyana Baran spent the 2020–21 academic year as a Fulbright scholar in the United States, serving as a teaching assistant and helping to develop online learning curricula for the University of Kansas at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. colleges and universities. So she returned to KU—this time as a Ph.D.

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UW Presidential Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Throughout November, we take joy in honoring National Native American Heritage Month , a time to celebrate the many extraordinary accomplishments and contributions that Indigenous people and communities bring to our University and our world.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On Wednesday, Charles Robinson was named chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, making history for the flagship campus for appointing its first Black leader. Charles Robinson has been named the seventh Chancellor of the University of Arkansas by the UA System Board of Trustees #WPS pic.twitter.com/L2RakBlzfm.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

A Tarleton State University doctoral student and U.S. Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship, The Flash Today reported. The 6888th – the only all-female unit in Army history – was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in March 2022. Army veteran Nicole Burkett has recently been named the inaugural recipient of the U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 16, 2024

Morgan Price, a gymnast hailing from Fisk University in Nashville, recently became the first historically Black college and university (HBCU) student to win a national collegiate gymnastics championship. That was a huge leap of faith,” Tarver told a Dallas news station in 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

An upcoming exhibition at Brown University will depict the incarcerated life of political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, through a collection of written papers and other materials, to educate people on the realities and inequalities of the American prison system. 28 to July 2024, across multiple campus sites. The event will take place Sept.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The City University of New York has received $5 million from the Mellon Foundation to expand CUNY’s innovative Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative. The project was created with support from the foundation to drive change across CUNY's 25 campuses and advance racial and social justice initiatives. Dr. Félix V.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

The Center for Politics and Race in America at Rutgers University-Newark has been named in honor of the first Black woman in New Jersey to hold statewide office, Lt. Oliver Leadership Scholarship as part of the center's Public Service Leadership Program at Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences–Newark.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Former University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) Chancellor Dr. Rebecca Blank died Feb. Dr. Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

Wesleyan University will no longer engage in legacy admissions. Our admission decision is based upon diverse facets of the individual’s history, talent, potential to contribute to the university and get the most out of a Wesleyan education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

. — remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., political science, University of California at Irvine; B.A., Asian American studies, University of California at Irvine; M.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Yale University has pledged $10 million toward an initiative to strengthen its relationship with historically Black colleges and universities in the realm of research, teaching, and student access. Esdaile complained about the book, Yale and Slavery: A History , published alongside Yale’s apology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

National University (NU) announced the launch of the Cause Research Institute (CRI), a new applied Research and Development arm that will coordinate research, scholarship, and other innovation efforts focused on social sector challenges, including education, health, human services, and criminal justice.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. Holley added that mission-driven institutions have never been more important than now, “in such an era of censorship, book burning, and a denial of history.”

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Serving as the heart of knowledge and scholarship in higher education, academic libraries are uniquely positioned to advance and support digital and data-driven storytelling and archival efforts, especially as they relate to marginalized communities. Children of the Mexican Folklore Club reenacting Las Posadas procession, 1959.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the latest entity to dismiss standardized testing as a core requirement for student-athletic scholarships. The NCAA, along with several other colleges and universities , relaxed its testing requirements during the pandemic due to a lack of infrastructure and resources to support it.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

He was a history Ph.D. Most striking of all was his willingness to work hand-in-glove with a group of faculty members and myself and our students at the University of Houston. Donors invariably took out their check books as he evangelized, drawing on his experience along his road to Damascus.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 18, 2024

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). Of the $100 million, $75 million will go to endowed scholarships to attract future students while removing financial barriers, according to the institution.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 16, 2024

marking the largest unrestricted private donation in the organization’s history. The funds will contribute to UNCF’s $1 billion capital campaign, which encompasses various initiatives, including the creation of a pooled endowment fund specifically for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs. “An Bond holds a B.A. from Colorado College, a J.D.

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The PIE News

JUNE 21, 2023

The budget increase has allowed the organisation to fund more individuals overseas for mobility programs than ever before in its history. “Russia’s attack on Ukraine has brought a delusional pursuit to forcefully adjust history back to our continent. million at its disposal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Is A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures —an interactive, open-access, born-digital monograph developed by Brown University Digital Publications and published in August by MIT Press —the monograph of the future? How is this enterprise sustainable?

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

The American Indian College Fund recently received a five-year, $38 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to support American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) students and tribal colleges and universities (TCUs). The grant, which totals $38,775,000, is the largest in the College Fund’s history.

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