Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The time has come to shore up educational environments as places of support, safety, and affirmation for LGBTQ+ students, particularly trans-identifying youth, according to a statement co-written by educational scholars, co-signed by educators across the field from preschool to postsecondary, under the organization titled Support LGBTQ Education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. For the sake of libraries and library users everywhere, let’s hope they don’t succeed. and Penguin Random House assert that the Internet Archive is not a real library.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When our students are done with this program, they’ll be well-trained to go into any position — a Tribal leader, a schoolteacher, a professor, an advocate, a nonprofit organizer — these are the kinds of things they learn,” says Dr. “Because we’re losing the language in our younger generations, it’s important to preserve it,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

According to the free speech organization PEN America, since January 2021, 229 bills have been proposed that would affect issues of race in American schools, such as restrictions on teaching critical race theory, the concept that racism is not only based on individual biases but embedded in the country’s legal structures. Fifteen have passed.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 29, 2023

This means trying to commit to one or two organizations or types of volunteer work over the course of your four years in high school, rather than flitting from one opportunity to the next. Get to know an organization you like or one that you’re already a part of. How important is volunteer work on a college application?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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