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Navigating Microaggressions: A Call for DEI Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Picture this: you are in a hospital setting and you witness another staff member ask a Black medical student if they need help cleaning up. DEI leaders in healthcare continue to grapple with ongoing challenges, whether it be microaggressions, patient distrust, biased outcomes, or embedded racism.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. The career goals and objectives of business students have evolved greatly over the past decade.

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National Academies release antiracism, DEI recommendations

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As implied by the title of the 359-page document—“Advancing Antiracism, Diversity and Equity Inclusion [DEI] in STEMM Organizations: Beyond Broadening Participation”—the National Academies aren’t just focusing on numerically increasing minority representation in STEMM.

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Hopkins Medicine’s DEI Chief Resigns After Backlash to Comments on Privilege

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The vice president and chief diversity officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine stepped down from her position Tuesday after a conservative backlash to a hospital newsletter she wrote in January that defined “privilege” as “a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group,” The Baltimore Sun reported Wednesday.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wilson Award for Civil and Human Rights in Education, and the Health Care Governance Leadership Award from the Kentucky Hospital Association. It’s not me speaking against these [anti-DEI] bills, it’s about me laying out what I believe to be truly what’s good for the state of Kentucky,” he adds.

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Here are 2 ways global higher education is floundering post-pandemic

University Business

lead this movement, but it also quickly scaled up DEI initiatives to welcome and support first-generation and minority-background students. higher education has seen several statewide efforts to ban DEI initiatives succeed. Not only did the U.S. ” While some U.S. study abroad trips in 2023.

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Setting the Tone in DEI, Accessibility Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mantella, president of Grand Valley State, issued and completed a 15-point plan for racial equity as a clear statement on providing foundational knowledge around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and emphasizing commitment to the university’s values. Bernal, chief of staff to the president and vice president for inclusion and equity.

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