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Building an Academic Space for Black Women Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In graduate school, we began exchanging documents for awards, fellowships, grants, and other opportunities and we realized that while our research was separate, it was also complementary, allowing us to strengthen each others applications. Prilly Bicknell-Hersco BWSA initially had around 20 members and leveraged social media for visibility.

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Leading With Vision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These skills have combined in her groundbreaking research around how students of color, particularly Black students, engage with institutional social media as a tool for recruitment or retention. This can include students watching “day in the life” videos of current students, or reacting to media created by the institutional teams.

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Resolution Reached on Title VI Complaints at Lafayette College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCR found that Lafayette engaged in many efforts to respond proactively to prevent the creation of a hostile environment, but it misapplied the legal standard, particularly with respect to harassment occurring on social media, and did not adequately discharge its obligation to assess or redress any hostile environment.

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College Board Updates AP African American Studies Course

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

1 version of the framework – a 234-page document with input from high school teachers and African American studies professors – received backlash from advocates, who criticized how the framework downplayed topics such as Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations, intersectionality, and queer life. public high schools last year. Dr. Charles H.F.

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Going to College Doesn’t Have to Suck

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab We started our process about a year ago by talking about what his college will cost, since I’ve extensively documented the consequences of paying too much. Why would I let anything, especially something as absurdly over-valued like “college search,” get in the way?

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The purpose of the age-old course syllabus remains the same — a crucial document that sets the foundation for a course by providing students with essential information, outlining expectations, and serving as a reference point throughout the semester. We need to provide students with the tools to deconstruct media messages.

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President’s corner: Enrollment guru Mark Lombardi on the terrific power of social media

University Business

.” Here are some of the biggest shifts Lombardi has witnessed over his 40-year career in higher education: How social media has flipped communications teams on their head Yes, AI is higher ed’s new frontier and investors are pouring billions into preeminent edtech tools.

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