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6 Real-World and Applicable Career Exploration Activities for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

As an experiential educator and parent, I understand the significance of introducing my students to career exploration activities and guiding them toward a logical career path, as well as ensuring they have real skills to navigate evolving career landscapes when I’m gone. These career activities go deeper than quick 30-minute exercises.

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Strategies for Speaking Out

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Activism is hardly optional in today’s world. My family is deeply Jewish, with both Sephardic and Ashkenazic roots, and taught me the core lessons of tikkun olam (repair the world), tzedakah (create justice), g’milut chasadim (engage in loving kindness), pikuach nefesh (life matters), and ometz lev (courage).

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Game Changers and Change Makers: Black Publishers’ Defiant Mark on History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Russwurm, in 1827, founded the Freedom Journal out of pure activism. How about Broadside Lotus Press, a publishing house, combined Broadside Press (1965) and Lotus Press (1972) to create the largest Black press in history, committed to telling the stories of the Black intelligencia. Cornish and John B. xi) as noted since 1909.

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Report Examines Role of HBCUs in Addressing Climate Change, Sustainability

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alexandria McBride As such, UNCF and its Institute for Capacity Building released, “ The HBCU Climate Action Blueprint: Sustainable Campuses, Empowered Communities ,” examining the current activities and future aspirations of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in climate change, sustainability, and environmental justice.

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Campus Free Expression, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Can — and Must — Coexist

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We are asking today’s college students to go a long way to become the leaders the world needs. After they leave our campuses, they have to navigate and carve their way in a world that is increasingly polarized. And they are necessary as we work to prepare and inspire students to be active participants in our democracy.

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Why Higher Ed Leaders Should Go Beyond Their ‘Knitting’ at This Crucial Time

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, he urged institutions to recognize their own flaws and imperfections, to embrace humility, and to actively work on improvement. By both sticking to their knitting and embracing new challenges, colleges and universities can foster true progress and make a lasting difference in the world.

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An Activist-Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An expert on Asian American media and activism, Lopez teaches courses like “Race and Media” but to also administer the day-to-day Asian American Studies Program, which is small but growing by leaps and bounds. In recent years, Lopez has turned her activism and focus inward.