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Student Worker Organizing Efforts See Drastic Uptick

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nationally, the rate sits at 10.1%, a decline from 2021. This rise in student worker unionization in general comes from the ranks of teaching and research assistants in the humanities and STEM fields, undergrad resident advisers, dining hall workers, and library staff, according to the report. respectively.

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Remembering Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (1952-2023)

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Charles, an expert in constitutional law, election law, and race who joined the Harvard Law faculty in July 2021, currently serves as the inaugural Charles J. Charles was a tireless advocate for civil rights, equality, human dignity, and social justice. Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law.

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Liberal Arts Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance – Fall 2022 Updates

Goucher DEI

In October 2021, Goucher College partnered with the USC Race and Equity Center to administer the National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates (NACCC) Student Survey. The NACCC is an assessment of campus racial climates.

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DEIJ Annual Report for 2022-2023

Goucher DEI

Dear Goucher community, With our fall semester now well underway, I thought I’d provide everyone with a brief update on the progress we’ve made this past year on the diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice goals we spelled out for ourselves in our strategic plan , Cultivating Global Changemakers.

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AAC&U Suggests Ways to Align Open Educational Resources and DEI Goals

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A lot of OER initiatives reside within library systems, whereas you might have a vice president for DEI out of the provost’s office or president’s office.” We can’t have the library doing all this OER work when those in DEI don’t know about these initiatives,” she said. “It

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Scholars: Racial Backlash Robs White Students of U.S. History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the free speech organization PEN America, since January 2021, 229 bills have been proposed that would affect issues of race in American schools, such as restrictions on teaching critical race theory, the concept that racism is not only based on individual biases but embedded in the country’s legal structures. Fifteen have passed.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court justice, the first Black woman to serve on the highest court of the land. Jackson, 52, who was sworn into office June 30, served as a federal trial court judge for eight years and was confirmed in June 2021 for a seat on the U.S. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

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