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Scholar Examines the Intersection of Black and Latino Identity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She says many of the existing archives for the Cuban American experience and the migration experience from Cuba to Miami lack the stories of Black people who journeyed from Cuba. As part of her project, she is creating a digital archive of each family she interviewed.

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A legal blow to Internet Archive, controlled digital lending

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: On Friday, a federal judge in New York ruled that the Internet Archive violated U.S. ” In 2020, Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House and Wiley sued the San Francisco–based Internet Archive over its National Emergency Library, which was created when physical libraries closed during COVID-19 lockdowns.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Dr. Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs. Now is the time to look to the archivists,” says Newson-Horst, who anticipates archival materials informing new courses.

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Journal places warning on flawed abuse-homosexuality study

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Last month, more than 20 years after the Archives of Sexual Behavior published research surveying gay people about whether they were molested as children—and whether they identified as gay before or after—a note appeared online. Zucker, the editor of Archives of Sexual Behavior , told Inside Higher Ed.

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Librarians target incoming students, collaborative measures

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Academic library professionals across the higher education landscape are championing student success initiatives within their own spaces, particularly to equip new students for their academic careers. Many even have dedicated student success librarians, solely focused on collaborative, resource-focused programming.

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Micro-internship gives students experience without barriers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

An August 2022 Student Voice survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse found that first-generation students were likely to lack any internship experience or experiential learning within a course: half of all first-gen students and two-thirds of first-gen community college students had not had these experiences.

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Amid backlash, Stanford removes "harmful language" list

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Indiana University at Bloomington's Libraries also has a harmful language statement that seeks to find a balance between “upholding the description of archival materials and special collections in a respectful and accurate manner while maintaining the historical context of the collections we manage.”

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