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Anti-DEI and the Future of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court ruling that affirmative action in college admission decisions was unconstitutional sent shock waves throughout the higher education community. Higher education quickly doubled down on its DEI commitment, reaffirming the importance of safe learning spaces for marginalized and underrepresented groups. The recent U.S.

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Panelists Debate Solutions for Nigerian Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is little doubt that education will prove crucial to the economic development of Nigeria, a country where 63% of residents live with some form of deprivation. However, exactly what needs to be done for the educational system to reach its full potential is far less certain. Panelists at the 2023 Nigeria Higher Education Forum.

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Education Leaders and Researchers Discuss Strategies to Better Recruit and Retain Educators of Color

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Education leaders and researchers discussed the vast disparities in the number of educators of color and potential ways to help recruit them during a panel of the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) Equity Assistance Center-South’s (EAC-South) Educational Equity Indicators Professional Learning Series.

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AI: A Brilliant but Biased Tool for Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) AI that can generate long, detailed answers to complicated questions, was first made accessible to the public in November 2022, it changed the landscape of education forever. “As As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive. Provost Dr. Janice L.

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Three Principles for Navigating This Time of Transformational Change in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is a call to embrace three basic principles to guide our path through this time of transformative change: · Recognize higher education as a public good. · Depoliticize our colleges and universities. · Focus on outcomes that lead to jobs and support economic growth and prosperity.

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Education Department Launches STEM Education Initiative

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education (ED) has launched an initiative to bolster science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education nationally. Deputy Secretary of Education Cindy Marten. bringing together various groups to discuss STEM education. 7 in Washington, D.C.,

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Culturally-Sustaining K-12 Education: Who’s Teaching the Teachers?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is is a lot of discussion about what K-12 teachers do and don’t (mostly don’t) receive in terms of training in culturally relevant pedagogy, and it is often traced back to teacher education programs. Specifically, 44% of teachers in K-12 education reported that they very often or always feel burned out at work.

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