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Women's Educational Equity Takes On Technology

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“While American women have advanced in the last 175 years, we haven’t come close to achieving equity,” said Laura Rebell-Gross, senior managing director of Girls’ Education with the Student Leadership Network, a nonprofit organization working for educational equity.

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CCS Launches Practicing Design Center, Dedicating Resources to Nonprofits and Small Businesses

College for Creative Study

CCS has worked with over 200 organizations through its existing Educational Partnerships program between 2017 and 2024. However, the current partnership model poses financial and capacity barriers for nonprofits and small businesses to participate.

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Former education secretary under Barack Obama is named SUNY chancellor

University Business

Education Secretary who served under former President Barack Obama from 2016 to 2017, was named State University of New York chancellor Monday afternoon, setting him up to lead the largest public university system in the country. John King Jr., the former U.S.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A 2017 law generally prohibited California public funds from being used to reimburse expenses for travel to states allowing for discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents. The finances of such member organizations can often revolve around good turnout to an annual conference.

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Harvard cancels planned fellowship for human rights leader

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch, expected to follow his nearly 30-year run at the international nonprofit organization with a fellowship at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. But he and his supporters say the dean of Harvard’s John F. Undue Criticism?