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Alabama’s Coach Saban Retires with Historic Seven National Titles

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Saban led LSU to SEC championships in 2001 and 2003, when he won his first national title. Saban is credited with restoring the Crimson Tide football program once ruled by Paul “Bear” Bryant to the top of NCAA football after taking over in 2007. 1 Georgia in the 2023 SEC Championship game.

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Veteran Sues U.S. Government, Alleges Racial Discrimination Against Black Vets

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is a statistically significant difference in determinations for VA disability benefits 2001-2020, according to the legal clinic. The VA did not track decisions on disability claims before 2001, according to court documents. “The The VA denied an average of 29.5% for white applicants, the suit claims.

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Students Increasingly Don’t Remember the 9/11 Attacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

College seniors were born in the fall of 2001. 9/11] is just this mystical thing I’ve always heard about,” said Evangelica Alcantara, a first-year student at Riverside City College who was born in 2001. “I For them, 9/11 is a historical event, little different from Pearl Harbor. I don’t have very much connection to it.”

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Maybe We Should Stack Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy?

The Scholarly Teacher

Bloom’s model was adapted by Anderson and Krathwohl (2001). If that top level is create/creating , you have the updated 2001 Anderson and Krathwohl version. One of the most pervasive models in higher education for describing the levels of learning is Bloom’s (1956) pyramid of cognitive outcomes. Bloom’s or Anderson & Krathwohl’s?

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kitts in the Caribbean, with his wife, Hazel Ross-Robinson, in 2001. "I “We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths." Robinson moved to St. I never believed my place was necessarily physically in America," Robinson said in 2004. "I

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Educational Equity Key to Progress and Democracy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2001, SLN launched the CollegeBound Initiative (CBI), placing 33 college counselors in schools in New York City, Rochester, and Buffalo. You as educators are critical to breaking that cycle.” SLN helps students find their voices and their confidence, pushing through the systemic barriers they confront, not just in high school, but beyond.

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Stanford President Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne to Resign After Investigation Found Research Data Manipulation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged—in 2001, the early 2010s, 2015-2016, and March 2021—Dr. Although there was no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne himself manipulated or was aware of manipulations at the time, he has not adequately explained why he did not make corrections when given opportunities to do so.

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