Remove 2020 Remove Industry Remove Social Justice
article thumbnail

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. The floor, maybe hardwood original to the structure, was either covered in cheap industrial carpet or a patchwork of small rugs. Most recently, he was the Andrew W.

article thumbnail

Training Culturally Conscious Performing Artists

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The August 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, aroused a sweeping reappraisal of race and social justice issues. He successfully pitched the 2020 creation of a new class exploring racism through the theatrical lens. No matter if they go into this industry or not, I want them to find that peace.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She rebranded Cal’s annual tournament to reflect a focus on social justice and equity. We also highlight things they’re doing in their own communities and on their campuses to promote social justice.” We still have an industry in which the people making the hires are predominantly white males,” she says. “We

Title IX 303
article thumbnail

What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

SRHE

If you didn’t know that 15-20% ( Doyle 2020 ) of humans are autistic, with dyslexia, Tourettes, ADHD and other forms of neurodevelopmental processes, you will have run into the extensive media coverage , or seen your Gen-Z students or kids declaring their ‘neuro-spiciness’ on Tik Tok.

article thumbnail

Open-hearted learning

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Glens research into the health and welfare of pack animals on expedition and across the global mountain tourism industry led to the development of new industry standards and the development of multispecies awareness-based Action Research methodologies to help deliver emergent futures.

article thumbnail

Exploring British Muslim transitions to PGT studies

SRHE

We consider this a timely intervention, in the context of a rapidly changing student demography, indicated in the popular usage of such terms as ‘hyper-diversification’ (Atherton and Mazhari, 2020) within HE policy discourse, and corroborated in recent projections by the professional membership body, Advance HE.

article thumbnail

Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

SRHE

In relation to political justice, the study generated two main findings. Many participants lacked awareness of unions (‘I’ve never heard of a union for the cleaning industry’, stated one). First, membership of unions and other professional organisations was rare. Others held negative views of unions.