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Study: Age As Aspect of Identity Not Prioritized by University DEI Offices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Natalie Galucia The study, Age as a Factor in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education , was conducted between February 2022 and January 2023 and published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Wor k. As people are living and working longer, the need for on-going education and training grows.

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Racial and Gender Inequities Found in Field of Educational Measurement

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Racial and gender inequities still plague the field of educational measurement, from professional rank to salary, across academia, industry, and leadership roles. Susan Lyons, executive director of WIM and one of the report's authors. Dr. Michael Walker, past president of NCME.

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HEER Funding Kept Community Colleges Open and Students Enrolled

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Without Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) funding, experts say many community college programs would have closed, faculty and staff laid off, and more students forced to stop out on their pathways towards accreditation. A good higher education system.’ We need to put some money into it.

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Student Worker Organizing Efforts See Drastic Uptick

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Unionization efforts among higher ed student workers have risen immensely, amid an ongoing downward trend in overall workforce union density – the percentage of union members in the workforce, according to a new report from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. workers continues to fall. We don't have a specific explanation for it.

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Rising to the Challenge on Student Basic Needs Work

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Food insecurity wasn’t a widely recognized problem in higher education and “student basic needs” wasn’t a field of practice. As we reach the end of another tough year, we deserve to take a moment to be grateful and proud that times truly have changed. I call a place that does this a #RealCollege. There is more learning to come.

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Only Within Their Own Institutions, Are Black Scholars without Honor!

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Before going deeper with our assertions, we (the authors that pinned this piece) also acknowledge that dishonor, is not the sole experience for Black scholars and sdministrators, who serve in higher education. And let us not forget that arguably the premier Black scholar, of all times, Dr. William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.)

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In 2024, Higher Ed Must Find Its Footing

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Everywhere you look there are signs that the higher education sector is precariously rocking, such that even a strong jab might take it down. Yet it’s also hard to think of a time when the sector as a whole was really stable (if it ever was). Higher education’s fundamental purpose lies in educating the public.

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