Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“Growing up here, we knew about UCLA, but it seemed so far away,” he says of the institution, roughly 15 miles away from his old neighborhood, that has served as his academic home since 2001. “It Almost immediately, he encountered some resistance from educational researchers who claimed that their area of research does not focus on race.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. The Point Foundation was founded in 2001 and most of its early applicants were gay males whose parents refused to pay for college after they came out.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dietra Trent, a Hampton alumna, was appointed executive director of the White House Initiative on Advanced Educational Equity, Excellence and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Jackson, a prolific educational researcher, is the new dean of Michigan State University’s College of Education.

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