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Dr. Orlando Taylor: A Person to Emulate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He took me there to meet his long-time colleague and co-founder of the magazine, Dr. Bill Cox. Wherever we went, Orlando knew how to engage people’s hearts through his own scholarship and research, from my shy niece to the President of a powerful university. He honored human beings. With that spirit, let’s carry on together.

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Temple gets $11 million gift for students with disabilities

Inside Higher Ed

Leshner was torn between whether to give the money to Temple or JEVS Human Services , a social service agency in Philadelphia that provides education, training, health and rehabilitation programs to help disabled individuals statewide become employable and self-sufficient. Temple plans to begin awarding the scholarships this coming fall.

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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She also serves as project director of the Males for Alabama Education (MALE) initiative, a state-funded program scholarship and mentorship program for minority men walking the teacher education pathway. Once we received funding from the state, I was able to collaboratively develop the program,” Strachan said. “We We have an academic adviser.

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College cancels classes for career, advising expo

Inside Higher Ed

Workshops covered topics like wellness, intercultural workplace competency, awkward human resources interactions, careers in athletics and illegal interview questions. The college offered students an event attendance incentive: a chance to win a $500 scholarship. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Teaching students to think beyond themselves

Inside Higher Ed

Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, and associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Wake Forest. The Program for Leadership and Character already offers scholarships, courses, seminars, speakers and retreats to Wake Forest students. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Author discusses her new book on grant-writing

Inside Higher Ed

Lai, an associate professor at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development of Boston College. Program officers manage scholarships for a funder. Q: Humanities professors tend to say that there are fewer grant opportunities for them. Any advice for those in the humanities? Learn how to find grant opportunities.

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Inside Higher Ed

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. Or cultivate new reading strategies?