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Supreme Court's Hollow Ruling One Year Later: Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Students Left Behind in the Pursuit of a 'Race-Blind' Agenda’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the fall of 2018, I was a student organizer for affirmative action and one of eight alumni who took the federal witness stand in the lawsuit Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), Inc. Despite the media attention and racialized division that this case drew, the U.S. President and Fellows of Harvard College. This injustice must end.

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Building an Academic Space for Black Women Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Founded in 2018 with the recognition that Black womens perspectives have long been marginalized in academia, BWSA was birthed as a necessary space for scholars dedicated to studying Black womens histories, politics, literature, and lived experiences. Five years later, the organization currently touts about 800 members.

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Here are the 5 academic programs emerging in 2025

University Business

The firm also touched on an emerging “creator economy” of social media influencers in 2023. Since then, the University of Texas at San Antonio has launched a bachelor’s degree in digital media influence. “Social media is ubiquitous and increasingly important part of our everyday lives. .”

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My 2025 Higher Ed Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

This spring is going to be quite busy for me with three faculty searches, our once-a-decade academic program review, the most travel for presentations that I have had since before the start of the pandemic, and responding to a host of media and policymaker requests about what will be happening over the next few months. Jossey-Bass.

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Striving for Digital Equity in Education

The Scholarly Teacher

Digital Media for Teaching and Learning The importance of digital tools in teaching and learning cannot be overemphasized. We rely heavily on digital media and technology to perform our academic work and professional duties. Image courtesy of Kyle Lautner, Unsplash.

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Does That Filipino Harvard joke in the New Yorker Sound the Death Knell for Affirmative Action?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The New Yorker and other media groups argued to get previously sealed information from the trial that began in 2018, including sidebar conversations, complete court transcripts, and memos made public. But that’s not really good enough, and the media pushed back. The joke was one of them. THE DEATH KNELL?

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Armbrister Hangs Hat on Indelible Career at Johnson C. Smith University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smith University (JCSU) in January 2018, he brought his experience in law and investment banking as well as his experience in education that encompassed both K–12 and higher education. In 2018, Clarence D. When Clarence D. Armbrister became the 14th president of Johnson C. Armbrister (center) became the 14th president of Johnson C.