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How the Work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

King’s work was about diversity: Dr. Marcus Bright King’s actions reflected an understanding that embracing diversity was essential to advancing his civil rights and social justice mission. Other jobs were opened through contracts for black products and black service providers.”

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Presented with two cases about race-conscious admissions – one regarding the University of North Carolina and the other involving Harvard University — the conservative-leaning court ruled along partisan lines that the two schools’ affirmative action programs violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. “No Approximately 2.9

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. In addition, students who come from low-income families, which allowed them to qualify to receive a Pell Grant, will have debt reduced $20,000,” Biden said in August. million contract.

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