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Association of American Law Schools President Speaks on Cooperative Politics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I think it’s important for us to be able to reinforce our democracy. That includes things like just talking with each other. We’ve been so divided through our politics, divided through the pandemic that has kept us physically separated. It requires us to talk with each other and to engage in self-governance.”

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Unapologetic Leadership Thought: Freedom Dreaming

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During the presentation, Garcia talked about Dr. Robin D. Keith Curry As I sat in the audience watching and listening to Garcia talk about Freedom Dreaming, I finally found the words for what I have felt inside for as long as I can remember, and I felt the excitement of figuring out that I am a “practitioner of change.”

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University of Rochester Black Studies Department to Accelerate Cluster-Hiring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What the Mellon grant does is it allows us to bring the department to full scale, meaning that we can actually hire up to nine to 12 people in a three-year period," McCune said. The Mellon Foundation allows us to walk, perhaps even run, rather than crawl." McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr., McCune, Jr.,

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HBCUs: Catalysts for Economic Empowerment and Community Growth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Roslyn Artis, president of Benedict College, aptly put it when talking with us, "HBCUs serve their communities by understanding that they must be engines of economic growth and prosperity." billion to their local and regional economies. million per state.

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In Journeys Class, Students Seek Wisdom, Not Knowledge

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What would motivate me to talk to some white boy over in the gymnasium?” Scott devoured the book and arranged to have coffee with Freeman, where they talked for two hours, sharing their journeys. Soon, they were spending whole days together and brainstorming for what would become the Journeys courses. “We she thought.

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From Past to Present: New Book Explores the Importance of HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The authors take a thoughtful approach to examining HBCUs today and challenge us to reimagine what HBCUs should look like in the future. Esters, a graduate of Florida A&M University and North Carolina A&T State University, powerfully shares fond memories of his experience as a student at these institutions. They are quite diverse.

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Forty-one years had passed since Howard graduated from the school, but his formative years as a student there radically transformed his life and set him on the path to becoming the world class scholar that he is today. Howard’s parents, Beverly Sisnett and Howard Caldwell, were among that group.

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