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Educational Equity Key to Progress and Democracy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I am concerned about what’s happening with local school boards, policies, this misnomer that we don’t have to be worried about diversity, equity, and inclusion and we can be a ‘color blind society,’ that it’s what we should be—which is not true,” said Tchen. The progress is tangible.

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Featured Partner Scholarships: January/February 2023

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“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 Howard says he’s blown away when he meets K-12 schoolteachers who have followed his career and who praise his scholarship.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. 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. Her passion for the education and equity of all students was unmatched,” wrote Dr. Miguel Cardona, the U.S.