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NCAA Adds Women's Wrestling as Championship Sport, First Tournament Set for 2026

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It will fulfill so many little girls' dreams, including mine." "This means so much to women's wrestling and to women's sports in general," said Kennedy Blades, a University of Iowa wrestler and 2024 Olympic silver medalist. Since I was a little girl, I dreamed about being an NCAA national wrestling champion.

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What to HBCUs Is the Fourth of July?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

deGregor Nearly a century and three-quarters later, his 1852 speech still speaks: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.” Much like them, he was powered by the conviction that literacy—secured through self-determination—was a transformative tool in the head, hands, and heart of Black people. Dr. Crystal A.

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A Poetic Path to Social Change - Thomas Kneeland

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In that moment, she had become the bolt of fire she once spoke of in her poem Fascination from the collection, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day and in that moment, my body poured out words in a way that isnt mine. There is something to be said about what our ancestors leave behind when they take their final breaths, Kneeland continued.

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A Poetic Path to Social Change - Thomas Kneeland

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In that moment, she had become the bolt of fire she once spoke of in her poem Fascination from the collection, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day and in that moment, my body poured out words in a way that isnt mine. There is something to be said about what our ancestors leave behind when they take their final breaths, Kneeland continued.

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Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, Wabash College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Westfields latest book is entitled Glimpses of Me and Mine: a Creative Biography (Wipf and Stock, 2023). She hosts a podcast entitled Dialogue on Teaching - the Wabash Centers on-air series of conversations with thought leaders in higher education and theological education.

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Report: Multiple Aspects of Higher Ed Can Benefit from AI Use

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The playbook claims that AI can help support and improve three facets of higher education: organizational effectiveness, teaching and learning, and the student experience.

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Report: Florida's Attacks on DEI Risk Harming Higher Ed and Democracy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“During the dozens of interviews conducted by the special committee with faculty members across Florida, two sentiments came up frequently: the reality in Florida is ‘Orwellian,’ and Florida is the ‘canary in a coal mine,’” the report noted.

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