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Breaking Barriers: The Struggle for Inclusion on Community College Campuses

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Libraries often are great tools, but toward that end, not everybody has the dedicated space, so thats where it has to come from higher-ups realizing that all students can benefit from this, but particularly those who may need that additional kind of space for soothing and just getting away from everything.

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Civil Rights Leaders Declare The Freedom To Learn at Rally in Washington D.C.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The annual Freedom to Learn DC Rally convenes at the Library of Congress, and participants will march to the U. ET and march from the Library of Congress, 68 First St. Organizers with the Freedom to Learn (F2L) network and the Right to Learn (R2L) coalition are planning a rally May 3 in Washington, D.C. NE, Washington, DC 20543.

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DEBRA HANKEN KURTZ

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Debra Hanken Kurtz Debra Hanken Kurtz has been named associate dean of technology and digital scholarship for Florida State University Libraries. She served as director of data governance at Arizona State University.

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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When she recently visited the Free Library of Philadelphia, I asked Stephanie how she wanted colleges to respond to that problem. These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act.

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"Change Schools, We Can Change the World"

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She held schooling in high esteem, and she made sure her children had library cards and took them to the library. As soon as Vassar was old enough to get to the library on her own, she checked out all the books she could get her hands on. I felt compelled to be an educator.” Her mother read to Vassar every night.

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CUNY to Launch FAFSA Completion Assistance Initiative Amid Tumultuous Federal Rollout

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More than 20 CUNY students will also be hired to give financial aid support to students and families in New York City’s public schools in various settings – CUNY campuses, New York City public libraries, community centers, and high schools. In CUNY's case, it looks like utilizing the public library system in New York makes a lot of sense.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree.