Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. In the face of curriculum and book bans and the devaluing of Black history, it is imperative to amplify and uphold African American history.”

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MAY 18, 2023

Free expression organization PEN America is suing Florida’s Escambia County School District and School Board, alleging that the district’s recent book bans areunconstitutional. Joining PEN are authors, parents, and the largest book publisher in the country: Penguin Random House.

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Credo Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2024

February is Black History Month , and as a team, Credo has been sharing some of our favorite resources that we utilize personally and professionally for Black History Month. The theme for 2024 is " African Americans and the Arts."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has announced its Annual Black History luncheon and theme of African Americans and the Arts for 2024. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has announced its Annual Black History luncheon and theme of African Americans and the Arts for 2024.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 4, 2023

So you’re looking for activities for women’s history month, but wonder how you can make them experiential? Women’s history project based learning is the way to go! Each of the following project-based learning activities for Women’s History Month focuses on these essential PBL elements.

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Teaching & Learning in HigherEd

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study Dr. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Dr. Laura Heffernan turn to archives from the actual classrooms of major literary critics of the past century to see what the available course documents tell about the history of the teaching of literature.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Esdaile complained about the book, Yale and Slavery: A History , published alongside Yale’s apology. Esdaile said the book did not include information about the university’s historical ties to eugenics and further criticized whether $10 million for student to return to Yale would help people of color.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Shane Windmeyer At Emory University , those from multiple generations of the LGBTQ+ community were allowed to tell their stories and discuss American queer history at a Jun. 7 event, “Our Stories: A Celebration of Pride and Living Histories.” history, and queer identity. history, and queer identity. Let’s Read It!:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

“Reed Books” has a nice ring to it, and it might help satisfy the bibliophile in me. Reed Books may thrive in some other universe, but not this one. I’ve been accumulating books for long enough that some of them have accrued meanings entirely separate from what they say. I mean, it could happen, right?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Leaders will speak on the connection between book bans, anti-CRT or “anti-woke” laws, and the suppression of other civil liberties and social justice values as part of a coordinated far-right effort to extinguish civil rights at all levels of federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued. in theater history from The Ohio State University. Theater is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses art, literature, history, design and more, Lee notes.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Brandi Waters, senior program manager of AP African American Studies at the College Board, and Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar, professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She is always looking to center the story of Black women in history, particularly to find ways to make those stories resonate with the students of today.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., Ramos, jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies, serves as an assistant professor in the Department of History at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Hill has been writing since she was a child, growing up around books and hearing stories. And the very existence of her book itself made her the first American poet and second poet ever to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing house. “I And then I'm interested in complicating them with the other truths of American history.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“I wanted to throw the government’s own book right back at them,” said Webb. By examining history with a criminal law book at hand, Webb found evidence to charge the U.S. The 3E Program aims to teach unfiltered American history by combining ethics, empathy, and empowerment, the three Es. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As debates over how students should learn about race heat up and K-12 schools ban more and more books, it’s an increasingly urgent concern. If I’m a Black child, and I read about myself in a book, I need to read that I have agency over my life just like when I read about a white character.” Any censorship of any kind is bad,” she said.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It’s an inspirational message from an inspirational woman who will go down in history as one of the most transformative leaders in higher education. Dr. Ruth J.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The nomination for Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week ago Hakim Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, has been shortlisted for a prestigious history writing prize.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Randi Weingarten As part of the “#AFTvotes—What Kids and Communities Need” tour, union members will rally at community events, such as book giveaways, roundtables, canvassing, and door knocking. The union said it is opposed to book-banning, censoring of history, and cutting Medicare and Social Security. .

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 29, 2024

Unpacking History to Understand the Future of Student Affairs Assessment Sydney Kayne, SAAL Blog Writer and Assessment & Evaluation Analyst at University of Colorado Boulder For many student affairs divisions across the United States, co-curricular assessment is a practice that feels like it’s still finding its footing. Thompkins, E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and NCAA President Charlie Baker At the North American Society fror Sports History conference last weekend, the topic was front and center. DeSantis is now running for President of The United States of America. What impact this has on athletic recruiting remains to be seen.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Her first book, The Power of Race in Cuba: Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness during the Revolution, examines racial ideology and the institutional mechanisms that support racial inequality in Cuba. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In his seminal book, Ebony and Ivy , Craig Wilder offers a compelling narrative on the hand-in-glove relationship between white supremacy and the initial development of the American academy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

Moore asked me to recite a speech for Black History Month. I stood in front of the entire school, my peers, teachers, and administrators, a sea of majority whiteness, and in February, a month dedicated to people who looked like me, and asked by the only Black teacher at the school, I celebrated my history. In 5 th grade, Ms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

She says the goal of her research is to help Black students to “freedom dream,” a term inspired by Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination , a 2002 book by Dr. Robin D.G. History at UCLA. One of her fondest memories is of getting books from the library with her family and then discussing them in the living room. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

In her new book, Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival, s he dissects and questions the normalization, romanticization, and pathologizing of Black grandmothers’ caring labor. She is currently an associate professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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APRIL 10, 2024

He is currently writing a book, Persistence of Error: A Natural History of Mutation, explaining genetic mutation for non-scientists. Sniegowski also has maintained an active commitment to outreach and regularly engages with public audiences to promote better understanding of science.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

For Dartmouth and Columbia, these are the first women presidents in their history, while Harvard welcomes its first African American president. Robert McCaughey, retired professor of history and Janet H. Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Columbia University named new presidents, each to take office in July.

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Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Welcome to Black History Month! Sociologists and other scholars have written hundreds of books and articles that affirmed Du Bois as the pioneer sociologist of the African-American experience. The post A Celebration of Black History Month appeared first on HIGHER ED CONNECTS. One example is W.E.B. I was aware of W.E.B.

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Ridgewater College

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

WILLMAR and HUTCHINSON, MN – In recognition of Black History Month, Ridgewater College will host regional author Dr. Christopher Lehman of St. The public is invited to hear Lehman share insights from his 2019 book, “Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State.”. Cloud State University on Thurs.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. This negative indoctrination starts early, as demonstration in a children’s book.

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Dr. Laura Pasquini

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The award was given to the project in the “Open Reuse/Remix/Adaptation” category and, according to the adjudicators, the project is an outstanding example of the power of OER reuse for the following reasons; Remixing the physical book into an audiobook has increased accessibility by providing the text in an alternate format. Attributions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

The book “complicates our understanding of right-wing backlash as populist, since the narrators within were college students at a time when higher education was inaccessible to most,” writes Shepherd. Shepherd’s meticulous and timely book highlights the right in the history of student activism.” Dr. Stefan M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2022

After four years of effort, Dr. Alvin Schexnider has put the finishing touches on his latest book. And if we look carefully at our own family history, what they were doing—that’s significant.” Alvin Schexnider's father, Alfred Schexnider, and mother, Ruth Mayfield Schexnider. This time, he turned the lens inward.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month. Sullivan discussed his latest book, We’ll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity, which chronicles the history and impacts of AMHPS.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Dr. Curtis Byrd, co-author of the 2021 book Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Pathways from the Bachelor’s to the Professoriate. Pipeline and diversity programs in the database are assessed through what Byrd and Mason call the THRIVE Index : Type, History, Research, Inclusion, Identity, Voice and Expectation.

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