Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

Kendi's exceptional scholarship and unwavering commitment to social justice align perfectly with Howard University's mission and values as we deepen our scholarship on the African Diaspora," he said. Howard University has appointed renowned historian and bestselling author Dr. Ibram X. Dr. Ibram X.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

It was at least a decade later before Fisk's John Lewis Center for Social Justice was established in 2019 to carry on a similar mantle. However, an external review found no evidence of financial mismanagement. Still, that fight was nothing compared to the stage IV colorectal cancer he had already faced at only 35. Cole "cannot do."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

If Carlton Eddie Gilmer could be a champion of equality, an advocate for social justice and for first-generation students in another time and place despite all that he had to overcome and all of the prejudice that was taught to him, how can anyone in the year 2025 still persecute any other person for simply being different?

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MARCH 6, 2025

Berger is an award-winning scholar and social justice educator who is making higher education more accessible to underrepresented students. Her scholarly interests are in art and social activism in the African and Jewish diasporas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and Robert Kraft’s Foundation brought a diverse group of Black and Jewish students, faculty and administrators together for a series of Unity Dinners across the nation. The dinners - which kicked off at the National Civil and Human Rights Museum in Atlanta before moving to George Washington University in D.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Georgetown event not only honored Xaviers continued contributions but also reflected on the role of Black Catholic scholarship in shaping faith and social justice initiatives. Maddox emphasized the need for systemic change and called for broader awareness and participation in restorative justice efforts. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2025

where I had the privilege to pay it forward with my students and advance equity and social justice through my research. Their guidance helped me discover my true calling in higher education, ultimately leading me to secure my dream job at UT. In the past, I could bounce back, learn, and adapt. Its hard to be resilient while in pain.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

3) Developing leaders on boards and throughout institutions in todays environment requires institutions not only to be able to sustain social justice-minded cultures but also to stay a step ahead of major issues in uncharted waters. Diversity is seen as a strength, not as a weakness and is everyones job. in press, p.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

a recently tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Department of Leadership and Policy Analysis, exemplifies how personal experience can shape academic pursuits and social justice advocacy. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2025

Alongside classroom lessons that often tackle this issue, Mr. Kneeland maintains an active schedule participating in panels and workshops that challenge others to consider social justice. The dramatic change in career focus came about when a classmate ended their life during Kneelands first year of college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I didn’t have the words for it then, but I could see how education was reproducing social oppression, racial oppression, and economic oppression.” What makes the institution unique is its critical focus on social justice. “I And that’s carried me all the way to this presidency,” he adds. Do our policies align?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2025

Alongside classroom lessons that often tackle this issue, Mr. Kneeland maintains an active schedule participating in panels and workshops that challenge others to consider social justice. The dramatic change in career focus came about when a classmate ended their life during Kneelands first year of college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

Her area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, tracing how whiteness is reproduced in everyday narratives.She is a two-time winner of the Students Choice Award for Educator of the Year at the University of Washingtons School of Social Work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Payne Center for Social Justice, which is part of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, has committed to conducting the survey with the same questions and publishing the data annually for the next 100 years. “It Brown II, executive director and research scientist of the Payne Center for Social Justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Iowa’s legislation doesn’t just ban DEI offices; it goes on to restrict the topics on which an institution may take a position , a list that includes “social justice” and “antiracism.” It is clear that the 2023 U. Democracy is a noble, fragile experiment, and now it is on the ballot. Please vote!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

This experience shifted my worldview and activated my commitment to social justice. Growing up where excellence was often overlooked yet deeply ingrained in our spirit, I developed a passion for educational justice and a commitment to empowering those historically excluded from educational systems.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

Frye Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science and director of the A&T Center of Excellence in Social Justice; Kennedy Lighty, an A&T senior majoring in political science; Tiffany Seawright, director of Leadership and Engagement at A&T; and Dr. Oliver M. and the late David Richmond Jr. and a program at 8 a.m.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Through tenure and its offering to all full-time faculty, the University strives to promote the optimal development of our faculty while standing behind their teaching, scholarship, and social justice work.” Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, vice president of academic affairs at Adler University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2023

One ingredient, the report finds, is HBCUs’ unique mission—not just to confer degrees, but to build individual and community prosperity, with an eye towards social justice. The report also explored how HBCUs manage to do this—to find the recipe of their secret sauce, so to speak. Maybe there’s a payoff for buying into this model.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2023

SUNY Old Westbury is a campus committed to powerful, liberal arts education and dedicated to preparing its students for career and life success while empowering them to be change-makers for social and environmental justice.” SUNY Old Westbury will be transitioning into a university, effective Jul.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Racial justice advocates are turning out for the Fifth Annual Critical Race Theory Summer School hosted by the African American Policy Forum. The social justice think tank opened its July 28-Aug. 2 summit with a plenary titled “Tip of the Spear: Tennessee on the Frontlines of the War on Woke.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

The August 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, aroused a sweeping reappraisal of race and social justice issues. I always leave the theater thinking not only about the message of the play but also about what the performance reveals about racism and social justice in the United States.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

King, who attended Cal State LA from 1961 to 1964 but never graduated, was lauded for her work both on and off the court, in advancing gender equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, and other social justice issues. “I’m California State University LA honored tennis great Billie Jean King with the unveiling of a statue on its campus late last week.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

Jennie McDonald-Brown, executive director of development for RCC, said Roxbury has been a geographical and social justice center for Boston, which fought for the college to exist. Roxbury Community College is celebrating its 50th anniversary over three days this weekend, GBH News reported. and Red Shaydez. and Red Shaydez.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Steele plans to work on the development of housing for people with low incomes, a critical part of King's vision for social justice. He will serve through the SCLC’s 65th Annual Conference held, Aug. 9-10, in Atlanta. “We Being in my current position, I cannot take it to the next level. In 2023, 45.7%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

McGrath is a visionary leader with a deep commitment to our core values of respect, diversity, social justice and inclusion, and we are confident that she will guide our venerable institution through a new era of success locally, nationally, and globally." “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Establishment of the Center at YDS is an opportunity to deepen our relationship to a historical movement that revives nearly two centuries of social justice tradition to meet the complex social realities of our time.” It will also partner with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image: The University of Houston suddenly removed its dean of social work last month. The university has said it did so to better align the Graduate College of Social Work with broader institutional priorities. ” In addition to speaking out, Dettlaff organized a speaker series and study groups on abolition within his college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2024

Frye Hall, named after two of its most prominent alumni, 1953 graduates Justice Henry Frye and his wife, Shirley Frye. The Justice Henry E. Frye Archival Collection represents more than five decades of materials documenting the couple’s legacy in civil rights, social justice, and civic engagement. and Shirley T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Jennifer Jones Austin has been appointed a visiting scholar at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work. I’m trained in the law, but have worked throughout my career with social workers,” Jones Austin said. Lindsey, dean of the NYU Silver School. “As She is the author of the book Consider it Pure Joy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Lori Kido Lopez has been passionate about media and Asian American social justice. Because I am interested in activism and social justice, I identify as an activist,” says Lopez, who has written and edited several books including Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. As early as the program’s first course, students will be taught about policy issues, incarceration, criminal justice, and racial bias as it relates to cannabis, Poli said. "We

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 9, 2023

Paul Vivian Johnson , Hamline University Key Statement: This article reports on a relationship between two social justice professors who shared stories of battle fatigue and, in doing so, supported each other in avoiding burnout. They recognize that a critical issue in doing this work is avoiding burnout.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Additionally, noted scholar and public intellectual Dr. Marc Lamont Hill of Temple University will receive the 2023 Social Justice in Education Award and Dr. Christopher Emdin of the University of Southern California will receive the Exemplary Contributions to Practice-Engaged Research Award. Dr. Felice J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

at the February One monument, followed by a social justice panel discussion at 10:30 a.m. The wreath-laying will take place at 10 a.m. for K-12 students in the Harrison Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets will be required. NC A&T will also announce its 2023 Human Rights Medal awardee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Fast forward a few decades, and Morgan has successfully been able to integrate her love for both professions. “I I see it as a combination of two early aspirations that I had as a kid,” she says matter-of-factly. She has been laser focused as a critical scholar on examining how the law sometimes fails to remedy societal harms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Saint Louis University (SLU) has launched its Institute for Translational Neuroscience (ITN), which will connect experts in biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacology, social justice, and community outreach to study the brain and central nervous system.

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