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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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Student Worker Organizing Efforts See Drastic Uptick

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

at large, finding that despite organization efforts, successful strikes, growing public support, and plenty of media attention, the share of union members among U.S. However, despite this general downward trend, workers in higher education seem to be fighting harder to organize and make demands of their employers.

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Coursera Launches Course Builder: Organizations Can Now Quickly Create and Launch Custom Courses at Scale

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By Shravan Goli In a fast-changing market, organizations will need to create, update, and deploy learning resources that keep pace with the rate of change. Authors can seamlessly blend modules from participating world-class industry and academic partners on Coursera with content from experts in their own organization.

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Teacher-Run Organization Seeks to Educate Students on Historical Resistance Efforts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts.

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How AI can add the human touch that today’s college students need

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Administrators, meanwhile, are wondering how they can harness AI’s power to benefit their organizations without damaging them. AI is helping us help our students in ways that feel much more human than skeptics of this new technology might have thought possible. This ambivalence is understandable. It contributed to a 3.5%

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Anti-Apartheid Advocate and Human Rights Activist Randall Robinson Dies at 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Renowned human rights activist and civil rights lawyer Randall Robinson died Mar. He was also founder and president of foreign policy advocacy organization TransAfrica. from Harvard Law School – also spent time teaching as a professor of human rights law at Penn State University. 24 at age 81. Left to right) Sen.

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The Human Rights Campaign Receives $5 Million Grant to Continue Fight Against HIV and Stigmas

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

LGBTQ+ civil rights organization The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) will expand its work to combat HIV and its surrounding societal effects using a $5 million grant from biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, Inc.