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Civil Rights Leaders Declare The Freedom To Learn at Rally in Washington D.C.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leaders will speak on the connection between book bans, anti-CRT or “anti-woke” laws, and the suppression of other civil liberties and social justice values as part of a coordinated far-right effort to extinguish civil rights at all levels of federal government.

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The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The exception that proves the rule, Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend has pointed out that unlike every other part of the federal government, the IRS makes virtually no effort to identify — much less to prevent — racial discrimination in its enforcement efforts.

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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In Stephanie Land’s brave and important new book CLASS ( a follow-up to her memoir MAID , the basis for an award-winning Netflix series) she explains that even though she knew a college degree was the best chance she and her 6-year-old daughter had of escaping poverty, being deprived of food made it nearly impossible.

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For HSIs, “Servingness” is a Journey, Not an Endpoint

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Servingness” has been amplified by several leading HSI scholars, including Dr. Gina Ann Garcia, a Berkeley School of Education professor whose books and articles help to define what it means to be an HSI in the context of the term. But enrollment is just the first step in the journey toward servingness.

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Film About the Abuse of People of Color Becomes a Teaching Tool

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I wanted to throw the government’s own book right back at them,” said Webb. the involvement of the federal government in the assassinations of Black civil rights leaders, and more. By examining history with a criminal law book at hand, Webb found evidence to charge the U.S.

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70 Years After Brown v. Board of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That was the job of federal government to ensure that the ruling was followed. It was also the responsibility of the states to follow federal rulings in that way.” Some federal enforcement did still occur.

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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess

Higher Education Inquirer

Although the book was an exceptional chronicle of the student loan industry from 1958 to 2013, it missed at least one key event, the 2008-2010 bailout of Sallie Mae and a number of banks who made questionable private loans guaranteed by the US government.

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