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Howard University Rescinds Sean "Diddy" Combs Honorary Doctorate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Howard University said that it has rescinded the 2014 honorary degree given to rapper and hip-hop mogul, Sean "Diddy" Combs. The university made the announcement on June 7, several weeks after Combs was seen on a 2016 hotel video assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassandra "Cassie" Ventura. "The

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Dr. Harold L. Martin Sr. Honored with Peter McPherson Lifetime Achievement Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2014, it became the nation’s largest historically Black college and university (HBCU). APLU officials said that under Martin’s leadership, North Carolina A&T continued to grow its student enrollment, increasing from 10,613 to 13,885 students in 2023.

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HBCU Scholars Program Celebrates 10 Years with 2024 Cohort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Miguel Cardona The HBCU Scholars Program has celebrated the exceptional academic talent and achievements of students at HBCUs since 2014, providing them with opportunities for personal and professional growth, mentorship, and networking, said U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

The Scholarly Teacher

Quizzing for Learning and Assessing Scholars of cognition and neuroscience have provided an abundance of evidence to support the old adage that “repetition is the mother of learning” (Carvalho & Goldstone, 2014; Janssen et al., Why Start With Think-Pair-Share? 2023; Park et al., Carvalho, P. F., & Goldstone, R. link] Freeman, S.,

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Can Application Modernization Keep Higher Ed Cyberattackers at Bay?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

In 2014, a vulnerability was discovered in a critical security library used by a massive number of systems worldwide. The Heartbleed Bug exploited a lack of bounds checking in the Transport Layer Security heartbeat protocol, and when an exploit was published in April 2014, millions of systems were immediately vulnerable.

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Princeton African American Studies Chair Dr. Eddie Glaude to Step Down

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2014, Diverse named Glaude an Emerging Scholar. “As a student, as a scholar, as a Black student, as an FLI [first-generation, low-income] student, it was everything that I needed for it to be,” said Kiara Gilbert, who had Glaude as her junior paper and senior thesis adviser. “I

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Choice Meets Academic Emotions

The Scholarly Teacher

Everything we do as a species involves choice. “A A long history of Western philosophy, psychological theory, and conventional wisdom suggests that choice is a principal component in peoples’ lives” (Patall et al., Three choice forms can be used in course activities and assignments: process, product, and content. Danley & Williams, 2020).

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