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Echoing Oz, Moody’s Downgrade Highlights a Tempest in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This downgrade is not an isolated incident; instead, it is the culmination of destabilizing factors, including funding cuts and the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, which are transforming the environment surrounding U.S. higher education.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita. CSUN has put an infrastructure in place for faculty and staff recruitment, including equity review officers.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

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14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. (“From Opening Doors to Opening Minds,” Aug. A Lifetime of Service,” Aug.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Dear Black Athlete: A Moral Imperative is Rarely Enough

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And the message to athletes has been for them to be grateful for the scholarship to attend the university, even though upwards of 40 hours weekly are given to their sport which makes it nearly impossible to work a job to cover expenses that scholarships do not cover.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

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When she ended her 15 years as director of BCRW in 2015, the college devoted a day-long colloquium to celebrate her contributions to feminist scholarship and research. Activism and scholarship Founded in 1971, BCRW is noted for combining activism and academia at a time when that was uncommon.

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Higher Education’s Silence on Sonya Massey's Death is Deafening

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Having been a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati in the summer of 2015, when Samuel Dubose , a Black man and non-university-affiliated Cincinnati resident, was shot and killed by a white university police officer July 19, I have watched and documented an academic institution become the center of world news for starkly similar reasons.