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All Ain’t Fair in Love and Basketball for Black Women

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We are two Black women higher education scholars, who love women's basketball and love Black women and care deeply about their well-being. Being on the team gave Chayla the instant feeling of accomplishment every Black girl feels when they aspire toward a goal and achieve that goal. We got you.

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‘It’s a power game’: students accused in university rape hearings call in lawyers

The Guardian - Higher Education

Universities say increasing numbers of women are instead turning to them to investigate, leaving institutions wrestling with complex cases, including a rising trend of pornography-inspired strangulation during sex.

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Higher ed data should be trans inclusive (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

are currently facing, the best defense against gender data being used to persecute them may be simply not to collect or store those data at all. Even as many institutions in U.S. What are these data for? And whose needs are we prioritizing when we collect, store and use them? Why do you need to know?

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Educational gag orders are a student rights issue (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The present is not good … Politically it’s horrible … All the hawks are screaming … —Toni Morrison, from a 2015 interview. As suggested in my last op-ed and implied in the epigraph for this one, it is, now, a time for urgency. While most target K-12 education, an increasing number concern colleges and universities.

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Biden admin to block blanket bans on trans student athletes

Inside Higher Ed

The proposed rule comes as transgender rights have become a lightning rod in American politics; a wave of states has banned transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports at the K-12 and postsecondary level. The Associated Press reports that 20 states have adopted restrictions on transgender athletes.

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