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An Open Letter to HBCU Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the last several years, we have witnessed firsthand the chilling effects of legislative actions and court decisions to outlaw efforts designed to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education and in the workplace. The war on DEI is being well documented.

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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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Racial and Gender Inequities Found in Field of Educational Measurement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This study, for us, was about seeking to understand the scale of the gender and race issues we face as a field and to document the disparities we see as baseline data to help track our progress towards more equitable work environments over time.” They promote [DEI] and say it but they don’t live it,” she wrote.

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What Does the Education Department’s DEI Guidance Really Mean?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What Does the Education Departments DEI Guidance Really Mean? Sara Weissman Tue, 03/04/2025 - 03:00 AM Over the weekend, the department dropped a new document expanding on the Office for Civil Rights anti-DEI directive. Legal scholars say it takes a more nuanced approach but express varying levels of hope about its outcomes.

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News Report Documents Conservatives’ Plan to Undermine DEI in Higher Ed

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Conservative academics and politicians started organizing a campaign in 2022 to undermine efforts to increase racial diversity in American universities and turn public opinion against these initiatives by convincing policymakers that the efforts are corrupting higher education, according to a New York Times investigation.

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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Because the SCOTUS decision allows for students to include references to their racial and ethnic background in essays that they provide as part of the college application process, it is essential that assistance be provided to prospective applicants as they create and modify successive drafts of these documents.

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How Colleges and Universities Nationwide are Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Francis College, in 1964, said Shannon Zlotkowski, assistant provost for DEI at UNE. In addition to multiple forums and the school’s annual showing of documents from its Martin Luther King Jr. King had spoken at one of UNE’s precursor schools, St. And at King’s own alma mater, Morehouse College , much will be done to honor him as well.