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Beyond Statements Toward Action: Maintaining the Antiracist Promise During the Anti-DEI Movement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Republican legislators have waged anti-DEI movements, claiming myths that DEI efforts are ineffective, violate free speech, and are discriminatory towards white students.

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‘An Invisible Tax’: Study Finds That Schools Lag in Utilizing Data

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are also impacts for DEI efforts—demographic data about students and faculty could be better used to see whether attempts to help them succeed are working. And the pandemic could have been different. People were drowning,” said Borgman. They didn’t have good inventories of anything from technology to people to resources.”

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End of the Rainbow?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation passed in states like Texas and Florida is tied to a national trend of trying to make LGBTQ+ people and people of color invisible and more easily discriminated against, says Imani Rupert-Gordon, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. In Texas, Senate Bill 17 took effect on Jan.

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DEI: Informing the Implicit to Create the Explicit in Classroom Culture

The Scholarly Teacher

Francis Key Statement: DEI: Creating a Classroom Culture Keywords: Diversity, Instructional Practices, Classroom Culture Introduction Inclusive classrooms and equitable instructional practices have been a subject of discussion for several years, particularly within higher learning institutions. Karen Blaha , University of St. Mirolli M., &

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Kudos to Black/Diverse Issues for Four Decades of Truth, Insight, Vision, and Integrity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Partly because conservatives were successful in assigning negative implications to the term “affirmative action,” the expression diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) came into use to describe and facilitate processes that resulted in greater access and participation for people from marginalized communities.

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Report Emphasizes the Importance of Professional Social Capital

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A key point that Underwood notes for the workplace is not just cultivating DEI, but also a sense of belonging. We also are influenced by the evidence that more diverse teams actually perform better.” This report is being broadly disseminated. We think we have the opportunity to make an impact.

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Which college, university leaders are speaking out against anti-DEI efforts?

University Business

The $5 million allocated to DEI programming has been transitioned into a faculty recruitment fund, according to a memo. In the memo, three senior UF officials underscored the institution’s commitment to “universal human dignity” in light of the demand to disband DEI.

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