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Leading Ethnographer and Religious Scholar Appointed Dean of Harvard Divinity School

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Marla Frederick She is currently the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at Emory University. “I She has also authored or co-authored four books, such as C olored Television: American Religion Gone Global and Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith.

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Context, Cultural Insight Bring Diversity to the Dramatic Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cultural representation, film, television and theater were filled with stereotypes, and characters were often played by white actors in yellowface. Lee found the harsh comments about the show lacking in context and cultural insight. should be, Lee notes.

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Identifying Gladiator Institutions: Welcoming Institutions for Athletes of Color Only

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Now that college football season is in full swing again, millions of fans will be planted in front of their televisions cheering on their favorite teams.

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2023 Women's College Basketball Another Mile-Marker in Title IX

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This year, the final game was televised on ABC for the first time. It is attitude change and culture change. … The Division I Women’s Final Four has long been a much-celebrated conclusion to women’s college basketball season. Awards are given, swag bags are lush, and the games are a must-see for fans.

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Ten campus living-learning communities to model

Confessions of a Community College Dean

munk-skukum means “to strengthen” in the local tribal language, chinuk wawa, and as such, living in the community connects students to their own Indigenous identities as well as the local history and culture of Oregon’s Indigenous people.

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Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. It is, and continues to be, a modern-day cultural institution built intentionally in response to the technological revolution through which we’ve lived.

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Are Universities ‘How the World Became Rich’?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Theories of differentials in comparative national economic development include geography, institutions, culture, demography and colonization. How the World Became Rich traverses the major theories to answer this question while leaving out one.