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AAUP Statement Ends Opposition to Academic Boycotts

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The statement reconsiders AAUP's categorical opposition to academic boycotts from the 2006 report, On Academic Boycotts , maintaining that such boycotts are not in themselves violations of academic freedom but can be legitimate tactical responses to conditions that are fundamentally incompatible with the mission of higher education.

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Dr. Harold L. Martin Sr. Honored with Peter McPherson Lifetime Achievement Award

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In 2014, it became the nation’s largest historically Black college and university (HBCU).

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NIH Grant to Study Infertility, Health Among Women of Mexican Heritage

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More than 115,000 women enrolled in the Mexican Teachers’ Cohort study in 2006 and are still providing data 18 years later. Farland has been collaborating with the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública since 2016, including using data from the Mexican Teachers’ Cohort study.

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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

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Referencing Parekh (2006), “Multicultural education is an education for freedom that is essential in today’s ethnically polarized and troubled world” (p.7). That was 2006; now, look at the state of affairs in 2024. This is a major misguided perception of those who oppose EDI. I want to end with a most timely quote.

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Annual Black, Brown, College Bound Summit Commences March 6

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The BBCB Summit has seen more than 5,000 participants since 2006, including students from nearly two dozen different states. “The summit is open to all students allowing a space to network and connect with others who have surpassed the obstacles and become successful. The path to that success beginning with completing a college degree.”

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University of Miami President to Lead at UCLA

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He served as Mexico’s secretary of health from 2000 to 2006, when his reform efforts helped expand access to health care for more than 55 million uninsured people. Among his career accomplishments, the Mexico native was the founding director of Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health.

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U.S. Department of Education Launches $1 Million CTE CHIPS Challenge

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Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins V) that seeks to expand student recruitment, training, and placement strategies in good-paying semiconductor fabrication (fab) construction and advanced manufacturing Continue Reading The post U.S.