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Breaking Bread in Communities of Learners

The Scholarly Teacher

Paul Vivian Johnson , Hamline University Key Statement: This article reports on a relationship between two social justice professors who shared stories of battle fatigue and, in doing so, supported each other in avoiding burnout. We do this 'til we free us: Abolitionist organizing and transforming justice. Haymarket Books.

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The Black Woman’s Burden: Battling Inertia in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Eventually, they documented their experiences in a 2005 article, "Retaining Each Other: Narratives of Two African American Women in the Academy." It takes all of us — the co-conspirators, the social justice warriors, the culturally competent people — being in lockstep, which is very hard.

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President’s corner: Trust is the bedrock of progress at High Point University

University Business

Qubein’s rise to the highest ranks of higher education despite his lack of administrative experience seems as farfetched as HPU managing to continually improve enrollment since his tenure began in 2005, surviving the blows of the 2007-08 Great Recession and the pandemic. “I believe in this work.

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Success Story: Wesleyan University

Via's

Emily has worked in the study abroad field since 2005, when she was the outreach and programming coordinator at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. I want everybody to see the value of education abroad and I want it to be more social justice-focused than it has been in the past—maybe less elitist and more for everyone.”

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How College Transforms Students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Terenzini’s How College Affects Students (originally published in 1991 and revised in 2005 and updated in 2016 by Matthew J. Astin’s Four Critical Years: Effects of College on Beliefs, Attitudes and Knowledge (1977) and its sequel What Matters in College: Four Critical Years Revisited (1993), and Ernest T. Mayhew, Alyssa N.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2005, the publication broadened its focus, becoming Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Through his wife Lee’s affiliation with the Fairfax, Virginia, branch of the NAACP Cox met Frank L. Matthews, with whom he founded Black Issues In Higher Education in 1984. This article appeared in the December 8, 2022 edition of Diverse.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Herbert and his co-authors attributed this prominence to several factors including rising public support for organized labor, increased centrality of social justice issues in student-worker organizing, the pandemic’s impact on working conditions and public awareness of labor issues, and support from industrial unions. 2, at age 81.