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Professor, Journalist to Pen Book on J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

McCool and award-winning journalist Earl Hopkins have announced a deal with publisher Rowman & Littlefield to pen a book about Kendrick Lamar and J. McCool plan to write a book about the impact of Kendrick Lamar and J. The forthcoming book, whose working title is How J.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But the book is not merely an exercise in nostalgia. Featured in the book are the voices of HBCU leaders who reflect on these challenges, as they work to foster an environment that supports student success. Gasman and Esters point out that the goal in writing the book was to “examine, in deep and meaningful ways, the power of HBCUs.”

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Dr. Derrick Brooms Appointed Executive Director of the Black Men’s Research Institute at Morehouse College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Derrick Brooms will become executive director of the Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College, effective Aug. Dr. Derrick Brooms Brooms is currently associate department head of Africana studies and professor of Africana studies and sociology at University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

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East Tennessee State Professor Wins Social Science Scholar Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hicks is an award-winning author with 10 published books and works in over 100 combined research publications or presentations. He is a cited authority on the first-generation college student population and has presented academic papers both nationally and internationally.

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Dr. Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude, The College of New Jersey

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She researches race, gender, and informal economies in the Anglophone Caribbean. Brown-Glaude is the former chair of the Department of African American Studies, where she spearheaded the development of its major.

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Universal Write Publications Marks 20-Year Milestone

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Universal Write Publications (UWP) was founded in 2004 by Dr. Ayo Sekai and has flourished from a passion project publishing fiction and children’s books into a respected publisher of rigorous, peer-reviewed academic literature.

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Research with international students: reflecting on an SRHE 2022 symposium

SRHE

We were pleased to lead a symposium of international authors at the 2022 SRHE conference, focusing on Research with International Students: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations. This was an early session linked for our upcoming open access book of the same name, which we aim to publish in late 2023.

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