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A Fight Against Misinformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CRT Forward’s data have been used by parents, educators, and activists across the nation and globe as censorship laws spread. I really do take that into my role, allowing students to envision radical changes and use the law as a tool to create the world they want to live in. That’s been the honor of a lifetime.”

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Every part of who you are, those are things that should be celebrated, those are core parts of our identities, those help us make critical change in the world and enhance educational environments.” Danielle Ren Holley, current dean and professor of law at Howard University. I can’t wait to represent Mount Holyoke in the U.S.

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Report Finds Diverse Characters in Schoolbooks Often One-Dimensional

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students of color perform better when they see themselves accurately represented, and white students learn about the world as it really is—a complex multi-cultural place. Although there have been improvements in character representation in recent years, the literary world that students experience is still predominantly white.

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AmeriCorps service member Megan Garcia reflects on her college admissions journey and her excitement for the upcoming year

College Forward

I believe access to higher education is so important because it can help fill in the gaps created by censorship and misinformation in school curriculums. For the time being, I want to get to know what communities are like and build a wealth of knowledge about what exactly needs to happen to make the world a better place!

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The Ethical Debate in Using Trigger Warnings

Higher Ed Connects: Ethics

In a world where education is constantly developing, curriculums are rapidly adopting new learning techniques and content that grasp world reality. Is it a mean of censorship and an excuse for students to skip class or an assignment? Is it a mean of censorship and an excuse for students? By Fatma Katr.

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5 insights for college leaders who want to improve civil discourse on campus

University Business

Moreover, colleges and universities are the prime environments for creating a cultural norm of embracing viewpoint diversity, encouraging the ability to see the world from someone else’s perspective and helping students learn to accept challenges to their own ideas.

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Can Art History Be Taught Without Someone Becoming Angry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The answer: because people have opinions, beliefs, agendas and values coloring the way they view the world. Either way, art represents an ever-necessary, ever-changing reconsideration and recalibration of how we see the world. These works are most likely to elicit censorship and undermine academic freedom and freedom of speech.

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