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An Activist-Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Find ways to take pleasure in your work now, because this is such a rewarding job.” For as long as she can remember, Dr. Lori Kido Lopez has been passionate about media and Asian American social justice. And that’s in part because she sees herself as an activist — someone looking to challenge society’s prevailing injustices. “I

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She has served on the Social Justice Action, Review of Research Award, and Minority Fellowship Selection Committees, and is a member of AERA Divisions K and G. Winn is the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis. She has been an active member of AERA since 2000.

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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.

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Scholar-Practitioner Helps to Promote Inclusivity at Alma Mater

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The lecture series celebrates Todd’s work as an educator and advocate for community and equality by bringing distinguished scholars in the fields of racial and social justice to campus to share their knowledge and experiences. The Alliance works to support faculty and staff recruitment and retention at the university.

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Interdisciplinary Gamified Teaching of Critical Metals

The Scholarly Teacher

The scientific needs of critical element production tie in with geopolitical considerations, providing a segue for conversations about social justice relative to marginalized peoples disproportionately affected by unsustainable practices. Journal of Science Education, 14 , 92–93. Elements are everywhere: A crossword puzzle.

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Out With the Old, In With the New: Decolonizing the School Counseling Profession to Support Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hines According to Singh, Appling, & Trepal (2020): “The Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC; Ratts, Singh, Nassar-McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015) ask counselors to “apply knowledge of multicultural and social justice theories” (p.

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What Text(s) Means Now

The Scholarly Teacher

Students chose from a list of topics related to social justice standards and concepts, critically considering the authorship behind texts as well as how texts related to one another. A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. The work of representation. Prentki (Ed.), The Applied Theatre Reader (pp. Puffin Books.

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