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Women's Educational Equity Takes On Technology

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“While American women have advanced in the last 175 years, we haven’t come close to achieving equity,” said Laura Rebell-Gross, senior managing director of Girls’ Education with the Student Leadership Network, a nonprofit organization working for educational equity. Dr. Lisa Hinkelman shares research from her nonprofit, ROX.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She uses her visibility as a Black female scientist at the University of Florida, a Research 1 institution, to advocate for others. “In a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This led to its widespread acceptance today despite criticism from researchers and media reports regarding biasness due its roots in pseudo science like eugenics championed by bigots such as Brigham. The College Board, a nonprofit organization that administers the SAT, has been accused of racism since its inception. Dr. Ivory A.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. These jobs may be in hospitals as well as in local health departments or nonprofit organizations. and Kathy R.

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Harvard cancels planned fellowship for human rights leader

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch, expected to follow his nearly 30-year run at the international nonprofit organization with a fellowship at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. But he and his supporters say the dean of Harvard’s John F. Undue Criticism?

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Statehouses support foster youth with college

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“I’ve observed the level of bipartisan support for these issues increasing over the last couple of years, which is really promising,” said Rodd Monts, director of state policy for SchoolHouse Connection, a national nonprofit organization that works to help young people overcome homelessness through education.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Guilbeau, the higher ed research group’s executive director. Guilbeau said the group, whose last pre-pandemic conference in 2019 drew about 1,700 people, is still waiting to find out what cancellation fee it might have to pay after moving the 2024 event to Minneapolis, where its 2023 event in November was already scheduled to be.

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