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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. The Point Foundation was founded in 2001 and most of its early applicants were gay males whose parents refused to pay for college after they came out. About 45.5%

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A transformative college president Prior to becoming the leader of ATD, Stout spent 14 years as the president of Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania, beginning in 2001. As DEI is being targeted and misunderstood, its really important that we continue the work that were doing.

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A partisan tug-of-war over the University of North Carolina

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” North Carolina has not gone as far as Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis has engaged in a protracted takeover of the state’s higher education system , from banning DEI offices to installing loyalists on the New College of Florida’s Board of Trustees , all with the openly political goal of fighting “woke activism.”

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Author, Understanding Academic Freedom (2021); The Future of Academic Freedom (2019); Censorship and Selection: Issues and Answers for Schools (1988, 1993, 2001); Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905 (1987). Editor (2009-15) and Associate Editor(1982-2009), American Library Association Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Edgar, a DEI and EEO consultant, trainer, and facilitator. “As Simmons, the first Black president of an Ivy League institution, Brown University, which she led from 2001-12, retired as president of Prairie View A&M University after five years. It recounts her weekly visits to a segregated library during her childhood.

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