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NCAA Kicks Off Inclusion Forum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The convening —which drew more than 650 people to Indianapolis—is designed to enhance efforts on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives for student-athletes. Educational programming focuses on each of the inclusion's five core areas of disability, international, LGBTQ, race/ethnicity and women.

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Virginia Bans Public Universities From Using Legacy Admissions

Insight Into Diversity

News and World Report. Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action, or remove the consideration of race and ethnicity in the admissions process across higher education. The post Virginia Bans Public Universities From Using Legacy Admissions appeared first on Insight Into Diversity.

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URI College of Education Receives $1.1M Federal Grant for Special Education Programs

Insight Into Diversity

Department of Education to develop special education programs and enhance teacher diversity over the next five years. Since 2021, 19 percent of emergency teaching certificates have been issued in Rhode Island, according to a university news release. million grant from the U.S. The post URI College of Education Receives $1.1M

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Lawmakers, donors disagreed on DEI in 2023. Now, there’s fallout

University Business

The spring semester was a time of great adjustment for colleges and universities in Texas as state schools were forced to disband any office related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), thanks to a bill signed by Gov. In short, a diverse and inclusive campus better prepares our students to lead.” Greg Abbott back in June.

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New Study at CNU Aims to Identify Barriers for Women in STEM

Insight Into Diversity

Researchers at Christopher Newport University (CNU) have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how gender, race/ethnicity, and social identity impact STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) faculty experiences.

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The End of Affirmative Action

Inside Higher Ed

Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two cases challenging the use of race as a factor in college admissions. Because Harvard is a private institution and UNC public, that result would ban use of race in admission decisions across the entire spectrum of higher education. Blog: Leadership in Higher Education This morning, the U.S.

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Native American Food Scholar Backtracks on Identity

Inside Higher Ed

While it is clear that racial identifications in census records are complicated and sometimes unclear (especially since the only race-identifying options for a long time were white, black, and mulatto), we have to date found no records of tribal citizenship for any of my family members in the tribal databases that were accessed.

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