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Using Black Students to Criticize DEI is a Cynical and Disingenuous Tactic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By now many people have read the recent article by the New York Times that critically examines the state of DEI at the University of Michigan. This article prompted other criticisms against the University of Michigan’s DEI initiatives in media outlets including the New York Post and USA Today and follows other attacks.

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Black Students to Criticize DEI is a Cynical and Disingenuous Tactic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By now many people have read the recent article by the New York Times that critically examines the state of DEI at the University of Michigan. This article prompted other criticisms against the University of Michigan’s DEI initiatives in media outlets including the New York Post and USA Today and follows other attacks.

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Living Life Offline: Social Media Effects on the Success of Black College Students Amid Today’s Political Challenges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Social media has become a battlefield of ideas, a forum for activism, and, increasingly, a source of stress for students of color. Amari Henderson Social media remains a powerful tool for activism, particularly for Black students who leverage it to organize and amplify voices for racial justice.

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Beyond Statements Toward Action: Maintaining the Antiracist Promise During the Anti-DEI Movement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Republican legislators have waged anti-DEI movements, claiming myths that DEI efforts are ineffective, violate free speech, and are discriminatory towards white students.

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NADOHE Panel: Colleges Must Prepare for Affirmative Action Verdicts Now

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

University of North Carolina , the cases that could re-shape the role of race in admissions or even ban it entirely, are not likely to be known until next June. Could it prevent DEI offices from funding ethnic student resource centers and programs? In parallel, schools will have to develop a media strategy. Harvard and SFFA v.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. had already outlawed the use of race in their admissions long before this ruling. We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.”

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HBCUs Continue to Meet Their Mission During Tough Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We have to make the connective tissue attractive for these very global, social media children and young people. America’s racial tension has been heightened by increasingly conservative Supreme Court rulings, book bans, and an increasing number of bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming in states across the country.