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Dr. Robin DiAngelo, University of Washington

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, tracing how whiteness is reproduced in everyday narratives.She is a two-time winner of the Students Choice Award for Educator of the Year at the University of Washingtons School of Social Work. In addition, she holds two Honorary Doctorates.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She has served on the Social Justice Action, Review of Research Award, and Minority Fellowship Selection Committees, and is a member of AERA Divisions K and G. She has been an active member of AERA since 2000.

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Roanoke College to Launch Cannabis Studies Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. Historically, in the realm of scientific literature and research, government funding around the substance was mostly given to look at the plant’s potential negative consequences, she said.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. Dr. Nicholas Bell Further entrenching this racialized injustice is more recent research that inappropriately uses achievement covariates in statistical models to make universal problematic claims that Black and Latinx students are underrepresented in special education. Collier, Z.,

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Report: Faculty of Color in Psychology Face Structural Hurdles in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of tenure-track faculty as of fall 2021 were self-identified faculty of color, the majority being assistant professors. Researchers found observable disparities between white faculty and faculty of color that worsened with rank. What you're telling faculty of color is: ‘Don't do your research now, until you get tenure.

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Going against the grain? Arts Based Research and the EdD: Resistance, activism and identity

SRHE

by Tim Clark and Tom Dobson There has been growing interest in the potential of arts-based research (ABR) methods to enrich educational inquiry ( Everley, 2021 ).

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U of Houston removes social justice–focused dean of social work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” According to information from the university, Graduate College of Social Work enrollment grew from 405 in 2015 to 544 in 2022. Dettlaff said that research expenditures also grew under his leadership, meaning that other issues are at play—namely his stance on abolition. Abolition and Social Work.