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Christopher Edley, Prominent Legal Scholar, Passes Away

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“Chris Edley was a smart, caring, determined advocate for justice who could move easily and powerfully through the mazes of top levels of law, politics, and research,” said Orfield, who is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA Graduate School of Education and co-director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars

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Contact : Maya Matthews Minter Phone : 703.385.2411 Email : Maya@DiverseEducation.com Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars FAIRFAX, VA — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education will kick off 2023 with its annual Emerging Scholars edition.

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

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Marc Tessier-Lavigne will resign and retract or issue significant corrections to five of his papers after a Stanford-sponsored investigation found research data manipulation, The Stanford Daily reported. At various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged—in 2001, the early 2010s, 2015-2016, and March 2021—Dr.

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UCLA Alumni Couple Pledges $10 Million to Ethnic Studies Centers

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The money will go toward creating endowed chairs and supporting research opportunities at the school’s Institute of American Cultures (IAC) and its four ethnic studies research centers. There will also be a fund to support research, Yoo said. Two UCLA alumni have pledged $10 million over a five-year period to their alma mater.

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A Race Scholar

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Lewis, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education and the executive director of The Urban Education Collaborative at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “He While pursuing a master’s degree in education, Howard quickly developed a deep passion for research. “I It was like a lifetime away.”

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Harvard Names Dr. Claudine Gay to Presidency

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Ruth Simmons, who served as president of Brown University from 2001 to 2012. Experts in higher education, diversity, equity and inclusion celebrated the news, hoping it could signal to other institutions that it is time for more diverse leadership. Gay’s appointment comes on the heels of the U.S

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Pride in the Halls

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The Point Foundation was founded in 2001 and most of its early applicants were gay males whose parents refused to pay for college after they came out. Classroom That shift in the Point Foundation’s focus led to research, such as the reports with the Williams Institute, and data gathering on the foundation’s applicant pool.