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Key takeaways from government guidance on SCOTUS’s affirmative action ruling

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Blogs Key takeaways from government guidance on SCOTUS’s affirmative action ruling The Department of Education finally issued its eagerly anticipated follow-up guidance on the Supreme Court’s SFFA ruling in September. Did it deliver on enrollment leaders’ hopes and expectations? The answer is complicated. What does this mean, exactly?

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My Take on the AP African American Studies Course Framework and the American Historical Review’s 1619 Forum

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I have been fortunate to have a perch on which to write about a host of highly charged issues that matter a great deal to me. No subject has been off-limits and no one has ever threatened to censor or water down my perspective. Which means I should not flinch when really tough issues arise.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

By: Frederick (Rick) Ezekiel, PhD, Director of Equitable Learning, Health and Wellness, Centennial College, Toronto, Canada. Postsecondary educators have been increasingly focused on supporting positive student mental health over the past decades. times that of their peers. Background. Stress, Mental Health and Learning.

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Irregulation: is the Office for Students fit for purpose?

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The Committee, with a remit “to consider matters relating to industry, including the policies of His Majesty’s Government to promote industrial growth, skills and competitiveness, and to scrutinise the work of UK regulators”, published 12 questions on which it invited evidence. The concerns are not limited to people within the sector.

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Is Teaching About Power and Privilege Education or Indoctrination?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Count on The New York Post to come up with the tabloids’ most incendiary headlines and news article leads. We all recall “Headless Body in Topless Bar.” ” But what about some other headlines that are much more inflammatory or offensive. ” Or Alec Baldwin: “Dolt 45.”

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Intellectual Provocations or Reckless, Irresponsible Acts of Arson?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ethicists, so the joke goes, use logic and reasoned judgment to undercut the public’s moral intuitions and to question religion’s ethical injunctions. Ethicists, without a doubt, can be intellectually provocative (and sometimes obtuse).

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Protecting Tribal Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Carpenter is Council Tree Professor of Law. In his dissenting opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote, “Truly, a more ahistorical and mistaken statement of Indian law would be hard to fathom.” Carpenter, Council Tree Professor of Law, and director of the American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School.