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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. It was at least a decade later before Fisk's John Lewis Center for Social Justice was established in 2019 to carry on a similar mantle.

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A Hope Built on Things Eternal: A Scholar’s Vision for Black Education - Dr. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

a recently tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Department of Leadership and Policy Analysis, exemplifies how personal experience can shape academic pursuits and social justice advocacy. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.,

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Educational Institutions Play Vital Role in Teaching American Public

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in September 2016. By bringing a social justice focus to the philanthropy of the Mellon Foundation, Alexander said she has the opportunity to support arts, culture, and the teaching of history and humanities in higher education. Alexander said, in spite of the legislation in Florida and other states, she remains hopeful.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Replace tolerance with acceptance; (2) A social justice ideology. A detailed description of social justice appears here ; (3) Appreciate and respect diversity. The racial nexus between social disaster, housing wealth, and public policy. Social Justice Research, 28, 318-338. and expanded).

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Film About the Abuse of People of Color Becomes a Teaching Tool

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was July 2016, and the list of Black men and women killed by police had grown by two names in just two days. For a year and a half, Webb collaborated with educators to create the 3E Program for Social Justice and Change , which begins its official roll out on November 15. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile.

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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. ChemOkey: A game to reinforce nomenclature. Journal of Chemical. Education , 89 (8), 1047–1049.

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A Hope Built on Things Eternal: A Scholar’s Vision for Black Education - Dr. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

a recently tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Department of Leadership and Policy Analysis, exemplifies how personal experience can shape academic pursuits and social justice advocacy. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.,

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