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Why Does Fear Surround DEI Efforts?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before DEI was a thing, Ms. In each school my white peers saw themselves reflected in the curriculum, their history was presented every day within the classroom and in the library, administrative offices, and even in the halls of the school. Because of DEI, before it was a thing , I had access to resources and networks as my peers.

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Navigating Microaggressions: A Call for DEI Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, marginalized students in medical school report higher rates of implicit bias throughout their education, perpetuating the underrepresentation of diverse practitioners and emphasizing the need for enhanced DEI programs in medical education.

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AAC&U Suggests Ways to Align Open Educational Resources and DEI Goals

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Open educational resources (OER)—learning materials, such as online textbooks, with licenses that allow them to be freely used, edited, and shared—are natural tools for achieving DEI goals. However, although OER and DEI are aligned, the people responsible for their implementation on campus often aren’t.

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Two Scholars are Building Diversity Initiative Database for All

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. Dr. Amer Ahbed, vice provost for DEI at UVM, said his institution is excited to be among the initial participants in this database.

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Get smarter with AI: Popular LinkedIn Learning courses and Percipio tools

CU Work-Life Balance

Explore new AI tools in Skillsoft Percipio CU’s recently upgraded Skillsoft Percipio learning platform features an expanded library of courses, ebooks, and audiobooks, many of which focus on AI. You can also access it from the library.

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DEI Blog – The Pervasiveness of Sizeism

College for Creative Study

By Amy Lazet, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Library Known as sizeism, fatphobia, fat shaming, or weight stigma, this pervasive form of bias involves discriminating against people because of their body size. link] Rebecca Puhl et al.

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A Message from the Director of DEI: Welcome

Ridgewater College

This marks the launch of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) blog. Each month we will share information and updates about topics related to DEI and events happening at Ridgewater College. Willmar Campus: Lower level of the library building L13. Warrior community members and neighbors!

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