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Sunsetting DEI

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But with the recent recession in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives across America, the notion of any kind of “soft landing” is misplaced – and dangerously misleading. Earlier this month, the National Diversity Council shuttered its services, yet another sign of the fleeting momentum behind DEI efforts.

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Navigating Microaggressions: A Call for DEI Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Unfortunately, experiences like these are all too common in healthcare today. Dr. Marcine Pickron-Davis The stakes are particularly high in healthcare settings, where these biases can significantly impact patient outcomes and care. Healthcare practitioners from diverse backgrounds face similar microaggressions.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jessica Faiz, an emergency medicine physician, assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, and health services researcher at the Greater Los Angeles Veteran’s Affairs Healthcare System. That doesn’t fix healthcare inequalities.” Dr. David A. Don’t give up the ghost.

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Open to Change

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By summer, the college had taken decisive action — hiring Donald Jaamal to be dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and Title IX coordinator. “In Dr. Angela Ziskowski “All stakeholders have committed to DEI being an area of focus of the plan, as it was in our most recent five-year plan,” adds Hayes.

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Charlie Baker Goes to the NCAA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Still, Frazier says that college athletics is undergoing a metamorphosis of change, particularly as it relates to NIL and DEI which has become a “political football” in states across the nation. I like Charlie Baker, I really do,” says Sean Frazier, vice president/director of athletics and recreation at Northern Illinois University.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. Healthcare was problematic because students from the university’s nursing program, some of whom he had classes with, were staff members in the wellness center. About 45.5%

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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It's a good place in time right now, where critical race theory is being embraced, where understanding and appreciating cultures is being embraced, with racial equity and DEI initiatives being embraced.” “In general, a Black Studies degree is very multi-faceted, especially for the population and the communities that we serve,” Sauvignon says.