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Faculty Groups To Hold National Day of Action April 17

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Faculty and student groups at more than 50 U.S. The Day of Action for Higher Education is expected to demonstrate how cross-rank organizing, robust faculty governance, labor solidarity, and protection of the freedom to teach and learn are crucial to the survival of higher education and to its vital social purpose in a democracy.

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Campuses Host a Range of LGBTQ+ Programming for Pride Month

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7 event, “Our Stories: A Celebration of Pride and Living Histories.” The event was hosted by the school’s Emory Pride Employee Network (EPEN) and open to all Emory employees. The event comes amid an increase in book-banning and education-restricting efforts from American conservatives regarding matters such as race, gender, U.S.

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Eye to the Future

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“Our students have a professional advisor on my team who works with them until they earn 24 credits with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.” We monitor and follow up with all of those faculty alerts.”

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Bringing Greater Impact

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Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person. there were protests on campus.

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End of the Rainbow?

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The government affairs department of Equality Texas has been surveying students and faculty at the Texas institutions impacted by SB 17 to gauge how it has been implemented. Saabiraa Robinson, president of Prairie View’s LGBTQ+ organization, says the center is sorely missed.

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Examples of Excelencia

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It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino. Among the services it provides to first-year students are individualized academic advising, tutoring and community-building events. WSU’s CAMP was founded in 2006. are Hispanic.

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Integrating Arts as a Healing Force

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By following the students’ lead, Bennett strives to integrate healing-centered leadership approaches, pleasure activism, and her love for the arts into the center’s programming. In the early 2000s, Bennett worked at the center as a graduate student event coordinator under the second director, the late Mary Karen Powers.

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