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Coppin State University: A Renaissance of Purpose and Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Central to this national transformation is the innovative Eagle Achievement Center, a comprehensive student success hub located in the schools library that provides integrated academic support, career guidance, and personal development resources. Coppin was always my first choice, says Muhammad.

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Brown University Exhibit on Mumia Abu-Jamal to Highlight American Prison System

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He previously was given a death sentence, but that was overturned in 2011. Strauss, director of Brown’s John Hay Library , which acquired Abu-Jamal’s records, writings, and artwork last year together with Brown’s Pembroke Center. “By The entire ordeal has prompted national debates about racial injustice and the death penalty.

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Striving for Digital Equity in Education

The Scholarly Teacher

Specifically, the term refers to unequal access to digital multimodal technology, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and high-speed internet (West, 2011). Libraries Unlimited. The digital divide is a human rights issues: Advancing social inclusion through social work advocacy. link] 10.1007/s41134-020-00147-9 West, J.

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A legal blow to Internet Archive, controlled digital lending

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” In 2020, Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House and Wiley sued the San Francisco–based Internet Archive over its National Emergency Library, which was created when physical libraries closed during COVID-19 lockdowns. ” Libraries that engage in controlled digital lending do so in many ways.

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An Outsider’s View, Self-Worth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before 2011, Amy Chua would have described herself as a “mild mannered professor.” Chua has been a fan of mysteries since she was a little girl, rapidly consuming Nancy Drew stories and Agatha Christie novels at her local public library. She was teaching law at Yale University and raising her two daughters.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting in 2011, Rueda-Acedo has incorporated innovative experiential learning activities and forged community partnerships with organizations such as the Arlington Public Library, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas and DFW Toys for Tots. “In

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Open educational resources: How access continues to expand

University Business

The average cost of textbooks for undergraduates and graduate students per academic year, along with increases in textbook and course materials from 2011 to 2023 AY, according to Melanie Hansen’s report for the The Education Data Initiative. Through NCOER, a searchable library of materials by submit can be found here.