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MLB All-Star Weekend Spotlights HBCU Baseball

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Seattle in July marked the launch of the HBCU Swingman Classic, a game that featured 50 Division I HBCU baseball players. Propelled by the MLB-Major League Baseball Players Association Youth Development Foundation (YDF) and Hall of Famer/YDF ambassador Ken Griffey Jr., Ken Griffey Jr.

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Buried Alive: The (Un) told Stories of Black Women in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The April 2021 killing of Daunte Wright and the March 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor, both at the hands of police officers, have ignited new waves of protests and calls for reform. The findings of the research were disheartening while coincidentally empowering. These communal spaces were formed and sustained by Black women, for Black women.

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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

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For universities that don’t have the cushion of the Ivy League list, the stark reality of declining enrollment and soaring costs looms large. This contraction is not a mere ebb and flow but a clarion call for a fundamental change in how these institutions operate. In this endeavor, leaders should not shy away from discomfort.

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Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s not an everyday occurrence when a community college leader gets a phone call telling them their institution will receive an influx of funding in the millions. But such was the case at many two-year schools across the U.S. It] more than doubled the amount that was in our foundation coffers overnight.”

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

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Universities minister David Willetts left in a Government reshuffle in mid 2014: … after all the noise about open access, the UK is left with a model which is out of line with the emerging preference of most of the developed world, and provides public subsidies for big publishers. No 13 On the right track? ).

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

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There are also growing calls for interdisciplinary and creative approaches prioritising equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to solve wicked global challenges ( AHRC 2022 , WEF 2016 ). I have been cultivating ‘Tentacular Pedagogy’ (TP) for 24 years as a HE teacher and consultant.

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SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 174 with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Thomas Parham and Dilcie Perez

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A designated committee released a report following the symposium on June 18 of this year called “ The Black Student Success and Elevating Black Excellence within the CSU.” The report also invites CSU to develop a “divine dissatisfaction” with the way things are in favor of the way things might be, with more intentionality.