Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

During her tenure at Brown, for instance, she prompted a national conversation about slavery by examining the university’s ties to the transatlantic slave trade. At the heart of those questions was a deep curiosity about how she overcame seeming insurmountable odds to become a world-renowned college administrator.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

I’m less interested in preparing Black children for this world if we are not also preparing the world for the Black children,” says Mims, assistant professor of applied psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Woodson for his conception and development of this singularly American institution which provides a shared opportunity, on an annual basis, to take a snapshot of the internal dynamics of American society, and to deliberate about where the country that most people consider to be the greatest economic power in world history is headed.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Ther are works, like Gomez’s or John Thornton’s that examine the how West and Central African belief systems, aesthetics, religious practices, foodways, and much more were adapted or modified in New World circumstances. history emerges, a vision that reconnects the United States and the world.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

” During her remarks, Gay also discussed the modern-day social, political, economic and technological changes and challenges society faces, noting that “fundamental assumptions about how the world works and how we should relate to one another are being tested.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

IBICL will prioritize the scholarly, activist and cultural worlds of the African diaspora, and in doing so will be a change maker for the future of Black studies." The institute’s research pillars include slavery and the law; performing arts; geography and climate change; Black visual culture; and Black public health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Harvey To be more specific, the Eurocentric framework that serves as the foundation of academic engagement for almost the entire American scholarly community deprives students of knowledge and information about the contributions and achievements of nonwhite people throughout the world, and particularly here in the United States.

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idfive agency

JUNE 17, 2022

Thousands of people flock to Baltimore to enjoy world-class entertainment, delicious local eats and buy from their vendors and artisans. It chronicles Watkins’ childhood in a city where poverty and a drug epidemic thrust him into an adult world no child should face. It’s a weekend full of color, vibrance, and heritage.

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UW Presidential Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

By so many measures, from housing to education to employment, we still struggle to close the racial gap that is the long-tailed legacy of chattel slavery, Jim Crow and countless other overt and covert institutions built to oppress Black people. Creating access to a world-class education for BIPOC students is a critical part of that role.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

The answer: because people have opinions, beliefs, agendas and values coloring the way they view the world. Either way, art represents an ever-necessary, ever-changing reconsideration and recalibration of how we see the world. ” Without hesitation, I answer, “No.” ” But why isn’t it possible?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Our leaders continue to disregard campus autonomy, attack the expertise and independence of world-class faculty, and seek to force students’ educations into pre-approved ideological containers,” the letter says. You can’t teach Mark Twain without talking about slavery,” she said.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

During October, there will be events across the country exploring African and Caribbean cultures and histories, such as an exhibition in the Bank of England, which explores the bank’s historical links with slavery. . The importance of Black History Month.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

I don’t know about you, but I turn to the world of culture not for information but for insight and understanding or transcendence or to transport myself to other worlds and see life through different eyes. But what about chronic illness, disability or aging?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Relatedly is the need for faculty to focus on labor acknowledgement which recognizes slavery and enslaved people. As such, our course description needs to recognize and challenge historical injustices, colonial legacies, and systemic inequalities while fostering a deep understanding of how they have shaped our world.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Professor McCaulley was “was startled to discover that “Sweet Little Jesus Boy,” the spiritual I’d loved as a child was not written by an African American during slavery as I’d assumed, but by a white man.” Discovering worlds beyond our own provinciality is one of modern life’s greatest pleasures.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Social workers “absolutely cannot situate ourselves as the magic ingredient to eradicating racism in law enforcement—an institution directly tied to the legacy of American slavery—if we cannot dismantle racism within our own systems of care,” Dettlaff wrote in the letter, which was signed by more than 1,100 social workers.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

I especially enjoyed my chance to work with the New-York Historical Society, and its exhibition on Slavery in New York Exhibition, its Dimenna Children’s History Museum, and its 17-minute orientation film. But let’s not forget: Many more people learn about art or history or nature or science outside of college than inside it.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In his account of the Biblical story of Joseph and his sale into slavery by his brothers, Flavius Josephus, the Romano-Jewish historian, wrote that the captive’s Egyptian master “ held him in all honor and gave him the education that befits a free man.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Harvard, for example, announced this year that it would dedicate $100 million to redress its entanglements with slavery. Colleges have renamed campus buildings and programs in efforts to atone for past connections to problematic campus leaders and donors.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Glasgow is one of a number of universities to have researched the extent to which they were funded by or supported slavery. Continue reading.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

At the same time, history museums started to confront tough issues head-on, including slavery and Jim Crow, and adopted new modes of presentation, including (to great controversy) role-playing by costumed interpreters. This can indeed be done, even when confronting the most painful historical issues.

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ACPA

APRIL 26, 2024

I’m neurodivergent, very queer and trans, and love thinking about new ways of being in community, in family, in the world! I pride myself on my critical consciousness, and I use Black queer feminist thought as means to make sense of the world and to advocate for justice.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2023

So, that means that you can’t really talk about the horrors of slavery in the US or the terrible, travesties that occurred after the Civil War whenReconstruction ended. [00:19:11] We’ve not solved the problems of the world, but we certainly talked a bit about them. [00:26:13] 00:18:49] Drumm McNaughton: Oh, my. [00:18:50]

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It has become quite international in scope, accrediting more than 950 schools of business around the world in over 1oo countries and territories. AACRAO - American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers – They establish the standards by which academic credit is recorded and transferred.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

1 version of the framework – a 234-page document with input from high school teachers and African American studies professors – received backlash from advocates, who criticized how the framework downplayed topics such as Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations, intersectionality, and queer life.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 19, 2023

Historic and contemporary pieces interrogate city and university’s connections to colonialism An exhibition by the Fitzwilliam Museum will explore Cambridge’s connections to enslavement and exploitation for the first time, both in the university and the city.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

To relate current inequalities to such historical phenomena as conquest, settler colonialism, slavery, mass migration and displacement, imperialism and neo-colonialism, and the histories of capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and xenophobia.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Long before multiculturalism became definable by name as a moral and aesthetic value, this country was beginning to achieve something superior to the quest for ethnic purity found in many parts of the world. But, of course, cultural pluralism co-existed with prejudice, discrimination, gross inequality and violence. Over the course of U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

The notion that the nation’s colleges and universities are failing to prepare their students for the world of work appears to no longer be a matter of debate: it has become conventional wisdom. Jones found that head nods among Black workers in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

” “I’m looking to experience a new world, to enter a new and de-familiarized version of the past. As the author Tim Weed put it , when he reads historical fiction, he’s “looking for something bigger than a simple reconstruction of history.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

If our students do not understand these histories, they will not understand the complex world in which they live. history instructors are required to teach their students “that defining racial disparities solely on the legacy of [slavery] is destructive to the unification of our nation.” We have news for these legislators.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

to refer to employment as “wage slavery.” Although we don’t hear the term “wage slavery” much anymore, traces of it still exist in terms like “at-will employment. We may have lost the language of wage slavery, but the reality of it is very much alive. That’s historically unusual.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2024

Specifically, being a Black male researcher-practitioner, I had “hope” in 2020 that we were beginning to peel back the layers of America that, for decades, we, as critical scholars and communities of color, have been sharing since slavery. Or so we thought. Also, I’m concerned with how this will affect our international students.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Evoking the four-letter word no fewer than fifty times in the English translation of his Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970) the Brazilian educator and philosopher links love with solidarity, humanisation and liberation, to clarify education’s mission as building a world where it is easier to love, and where educators must risk acts of love.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

“Colleges and universities are not immune from what’s going on in the big world,” Bakari said. “This little, small trip could make a difference and spark a thirst for more research, more education, paying a little bit more attention to what’s going on in the world,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To its opponents though, CRT is dangerous because it is an articulation of the position and situation that Black Americans in particular, and Black people around the world, experience in white dominated societies.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In 1997, Heather MacDonald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture , published a blistering critique of the impact of identity politics on the museum world.

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