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Christopher Edley, Prominent Legal Scholar, Passes Away

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“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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Kudos to Black/Diverse Issues for Four Decades of Truth, Insight, Vision, and Integrity

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1994-2004 – Institutional Adjustment and Affirmative Inaction Affirmative action was expected to result in substantially larger numbers of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans as students and faculty members in historically white colleges and universities.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

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As I was going through my career and figuring out the research that drives me and that I want to do, opportunities came up at the U of A,” she says. For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. Moses, who served as her faculty adviser and co-chair of her dissertation committee.

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Study: Black Medical Students Experience Higher Rates of Attrition Than Peers

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student at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study, said when research and innovation are equitable, physicians are better equipped to care for diverse populations. It's really important to help create innovative and equitable research and translational research to care for our broadly diverse patient population," said Nguyen. "To

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Pride in the Halls

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Evolution Liam Dacey, a 2004 graduate of University of Notre Dame (UND), one of the nation’s preeminent Catholic institutions, took steps to transfer after coming out his sophomore year, but changed his mind and instead became an advocate for LGBTQ visibility and acceptance on campus.

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5 Hip-Hop Quotes to Inspire College Students

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5. Ye ("Last Call”, 2004) “I ain't play the hand I was dealt, I changed my cards. His research and writing revolve around socially conscious music, hip-hop, technology, and media representation. His research revolves around Black mentorship. I prayed to the skies and I changed my stars.”

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Feedback or Feedforward? It’s All About the Timing

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2004) found that “targeted teaching behaviors were acquired faster and more efficiently when feedback was immediate” (p. 2004), but that also feel manageable to the time constraints and demands many faculty face? Review of Educational Research, 77 (1), 81–112. deferred feedback). Scheeler et al. The power of feedback.