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An Open Letter to HBCU Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Thanks to the active engagement and voter turnout of college students of all races, ethnicities, genders, and social classes, Barack Hussien Obama, was elected America’s first Black president of the United States of America in 2008 and reelected for a second term in 2012. The war on DEI is being well documented. Please vote!

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Florida’s Anti-DEI Actions Hit Hard for Alumna and Mom of Recent Grad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Johnson My alma mater, the University of Florida, recently eliminated its DEI positions and offices. Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. Dr. Susan D. whose horizons are being increasingly limited each day.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Attorney, politician, and advocate, Stacey Abrams aptly captures the essence of this transformation in her comments: “DEI is essential to building educational institutions that are welcoming, fair, and free from discrimination and hate.

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DEI Blog – Being First-Generation: A Challenge & a Gift

College for Creative Study

When my dad lost his long-time warehouse job in 2008, he did everything he could to pick up work, whether it be with a temp agency or working as a handyman for a local realty company. I am also an Administrator of this Facebook Group!

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Holden Thorp, who was chancellor at Chapel Hill from 2008 to 2012, said the idea that such moves are not motivated by politics is “ridiculous.” Even his successor, former Bush administration education secretary Margaret Spellings, left in 2019 amid grumblings that she was not sufficiently conservative for the board.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Accreditors and DEI At UC-Berkeley, 2.4 Staffing Does Stanford have more administrators than undergrads? “There’s a lot of graduate education and a lot of research, and that’s where a lot of the staff and administrators are.” We can’t let this stand. Former U.S.

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DEI Did It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The scapegoating of DEI for the recent aircraft disaster at Reagan National Airport. In the immediate aftermath of the Reagan National Airport disaster, right-wing agentsled by President Donald Trump and echoed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegsethseized upon DEI as the culprit. This is the final transformation of DEI.

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