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Fill Graduation Gaps, Transform Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Higher education is one of the most powerful assets our state has to uplift families, support businesses, and create prosperity. Higher education leaders face an obligation to Kansas families to remove barriers to access and success and ensure that our system lives up to the ideal of equal opportunity for all.

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Supreme Court Ruling Could Produce Chilling Effect on Equity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It remains important to ensure that all students have equal opportunity to get into higher education.” Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the nonprofit Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). Proposition 209, passed in 1996, banned affirmative action in California.

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Walden University Settles in False Advertising and 'Reverse Red-Lining' Lawsuit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Aljanal Carroll, a named plaintiff, what was advertised as an academic pursuit that was supposed to take one and a half years ended up taking three, she told Diverse. A class-action lawsuit against Walden University, a private, for-profit, online institution has concluded with the school settling and agreeing to pay the plaintiffs $28.5

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Open to Change

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has consistently performed well across all four Diverse Organizational Impact and Transformation (DOIT) institutional pillars. But during the 2021-22 academic year concerns about diversity in leadership surfaced. A dispute led to the resignation of two trustees.

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MIT chancellor: What are the challenges facing higher education?

University Business

Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Melissa Nobles on diversity and equal opportunity in the US education system. But how is it dealing with diversity and equal opportunity? appeared first on University Business. Read more from Al Jazeera.

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Gov. Cox shares no evidence that Utah colleges require DEI statements—while U. of Utah says it doesn’t

University Business

Utah’s flagship university says it does not require prospective hires to sign a diversity, equality and inclusion statement before they’re employed. of Utah says it doesn’t appeared first on University Business. of Utah says it doesn’t appeared first on University Business. Read more from The Salt Lake Tribune.

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Higher Ed Prepares to Celebrate the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Graves, chief research, education and program officer at The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Graves is the chief research, education and program officer at The Martin Luther King, Jr. This time of year, The King Center is buzzing with activity, coordinating and leading celebrations of King’s life next Monday.