Remove world gender-pay-gap
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College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among the things young people explore is how the world perceives them, which can be discouraging for people of color who feel like they are only valued for their athletic accomplishments. NIL While the NCAA remains opposed to pay-for-play, NIL is a reality in college sports. Four years later, 82.8% of athletic conferences.

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Dartmouth Launches Fellowship Program for STEM Diversity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Akré raised her hand and described some of the decisions that people in that position have to make—like whether to pay for insurance or whether to pay for gasoline or a cell phone bill. Akré sees the fellowship as evidence that the STEM world may be embracing these realities. “In Diverse teams simply do better science,” he said.

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This means that we need to take the time to reflect and make changes in our research and our course syllabus (through the textbooks, readings, and resources we provide to students) on which Eurocentric or colonial perspectives, biases, and gaps in representation are present.

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Here are 9 ways higher education can ensure rural America’s long-term vitality

University Business

are often stigmatized for their meek economies and decaying industries amid the overwhelming presence of the digitized, globalized and unmistakably urban world that predominates the United States. Rural towns in the U.S. “Rural America needs more strategies and investment to hold onto its good jobs and create more economic opportunity.”

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You Are Enough

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some may say otherwise, statistics may show deficits, education gaps may persist, legislation may not yet protect you, and unequal pay for equal work may hold you back. I have thought extensively about how we can continue to make things better in our world. I AM ENOUGH, and I want you to know that about yourself as well.

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Forty-one years had passed since Howard graduated from the school, but his formative years as a student there radically transformed his life and set him on the path to becoming the world class scholar that he is today. I would not change it for the world,” says Howard. But the neighborhood started to change. It was the best of times.”

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The notion that the nation’s colleges and universities are failing to prepare their students for the world of work appears to no longer be a matter of debate: it has become conventional wisdom. Underscoring the role that racial identity also plays in these dynamics, sociologist James R. or Seattle—an untenable dream.