Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

The push for more representation and education about Asian identities at Amherst College has been a multi-decade affair. Fields like Asian American studies and Pacific Islander studies were borne out of student activism in the 1960s and a desire to be represented in higher education, after all. Immigration Studies.

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AIFS Abroad

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Read on to learn more about how Abbys experience in Florence with AIFS Abroad helped her expand her global perspective and advance her Environmental Science education. My four classes were all in one building, on one floor, with a library and study space right nearby. In contrast, in the U.S.,

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 5, 2024

For years I have been using Visual Journals as a tool and the visual journaling process as a critical component of my teaching and learning practice to procure meaning-making, metacognitive awareness, and assessment of student learning within the arts and arts education. ACRL visual literacy competency standards for higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Image: Living-learning communities are common in the sphere of higher education as intimate, specialized spaces for students looking to establish community in on-campus residence halls. Some are more ideological, touching on interfaith, sustainability, conflict resolution, leadership or social justice.

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Goucher DEI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The goal of LACRELA, which is coordinated by the University of South California (USC) Race and Equity Center, is to foster greater racial equity on our campus through assessment, education, and strategic DEI activities. The NACCC is an assessment of campus racial climates. This informed Goucher’s DEI strategic plan.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

An opportunity for students to gain developmental, transferable skills by learning outside the library and the lecture theatre from the start. The main thrust of the MA programme, with its interest in social justice, was a perfect environment to develop these aims and to contribute to University priorities.

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Goucher DEI

MAY 22, 2024

Since she’s been here, she has contributed to a decrease in reported incidents and an increase in sexual violence prevention education initiatives, harm reduction, and peer education. Maeba is excited to use this shift as an opportunity to build and expand social justice dialogue work at Goucher.

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AIFS Abroad

JULY 30, 2024

This experience taught me valuable lessons about accountability and self-discipline, empowering me to take ownership of my education and approach learning with purpose and responsibility.” ” And the end result of an immersive, high-impact educational experience abroad? Self-discovery and personal growth!

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EAB

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As Stanford law professor Richard Thompson Ford has suggested , “It’s enough to count the justices nominated by Republican presidents to predict the court’s decision. For higher education leaders, it matters in part as a tool for helping imagine potential responses to the Court’s ultimate decisions, whatever they might be.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

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. A lot of OER initiatives reside within library systems, whereas you might have a vice president for DEI out of the provost’s office or president’s office.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Elementary school teachers have been forced to empty their classroom libraries in response to a law requiring that all books be approved by a media specialist as free of “unsolicited theories that may lead to student indoctrination.” Fifteen have passed. Florida has been a particular site of activity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

Richardson Library. The collection of papers and artwork from the estate of the late civil rights leader, Elijah Cummings, will be housed in the Beulah M. Davis Research Room of Morgan State University's Earl R. The papers of the late Congressman Elijah E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2023

“Charles was a tireless advocate for civil rights, equality, human dignity, and social justice. Last fall, the Ogletree family donated papers from Ogletree’s career to the Harvard Law School Library, which will make them available on a rolling basis over the next 3 years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? By any standard, I had a privileged education, first at Oberlin, then at Yale. I still vividly recall C.

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Goucher DEI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dear Goucher community, With our fall semester now well underway, I thought I’d provide everyone with a brief update on the progress we’ve made this past year on the diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice goals we spelled out for ourselves in our strategic plan , Cultivating Global Changemakers.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 22, 2023

Waking up, coming home, to the crises we face thus requires us to educate for a self-transcending, extended and expansive version of the self. This is consistent with education for flourishing with seeking to identify the gift we have to offer the world. New World Library. This, he argues, is the pandemic of the solo self.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

President Joe Biden, left, is flanked by Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. Department of Education (ED). Biden Administration U.S.

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