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Universal Write Publications Marks 20-Year Milestone

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Universal Write Publications (UWP) was founded in 2004 by Dr. Ayo Sekai and has flourished from a passion project publishing fiction and children’s books into a respected publisher of rigorous, peer-reviewed academic literature.

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Inclusive research agendas: what’s excluded?

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In particular, understanding access, participation and inclusion for those who align with the different protected characteristics (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) has been of interest to academic research, given various political movements to widen access to higher education.

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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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Deborah Santiago

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In 2004, when Deborah Santiago co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based Santiago, who also serves as vice president for policy and research at Excelencia , has worked for more than 15 years to improve educational opportunities and access for all students. based non-profit ¡Excelencia! Excelencia!

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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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HBCU Conference Connects Secondary to Postsecondary

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Corbett-Helaire, assistant professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard University and leading researcher behind the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. million Black students who took the SAT between 2004 and 2010, revealed that students who enrolled at an HBCU were 14.6 Dr. Kizzmekia S.

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Research ethics committees should rethink risk

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There are good reasons why institutional human research ethics committees (RECs) or research ethics boards (REBs) are needed in higher education institutions – namely, to ensure research participants are treated in accordance with a set of agreed standards and principles. by Jacqueline Stevenson, Tom Power and Alison Fox.