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Free Expression Group Sues Florida School District Over Book Bans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Free expression organization PEN America is suing Florida’s Escambia County School District and School Board, alleging that the district’s recent book bans areunconstitutional. Joining PEN are authors, parents, and the largest book publisher in the country: Penguin Random House. They're blatantly unconstitutional.

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With Pell Grants Expanding to the Incarcerated, Experts Say Prisons Need To be Less Restrictive of Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Caswell professor and chair of educational studies at Carleton College, who has taught in prisons for sixteen years. “In In the prisons where I work, they’re limited to no more than 10 books total,” she said. Sometimes educational programs can feel like a low priority, derailed by clerical errors and staffing issues.

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Experiential Education Books: 10 Great Reads for the Experiential Educator

Experiential Learning Depot

If you are an aspiring or even practicing experiential educator looking for more information about experiential learning or could use a boost of inspiration, I highly recommend that you start by reading some books about experiential education written by the experiential learning greats! Right now is a great time to start.

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How Change Leadership Propelled University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journey to Equity

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The results of this pilot program showed that completion grants effectively closed the equity gap, allowing students from marginalized backgrounds to overcome financial obstacles and continue their education. of the population with financial holds.

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Where do we go from here? (Martin Luther King, 1967)

Higher Education Inquirer

Negroes in desperate need of allowing their mental buckets to sink deep into the wells of knowledge were confronted with a firm no when they sought to use the city libraries. Our Citizenship Education Program continues to lay the solid foundation of adult education and community organization upon which all social change must ultimately rest.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is currently a professor of higher education and community college leadership and director of the Office for Community College Research and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as executive director of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges. 1, after 35 years on the faculty of Virginia Tech.

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