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NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade Gifts $3M for Literacy, Scholarships

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marquette University alumnus and NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade has committed to a $3 million gift to extend the Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program and establish the Wade Scholars as well as support a new men’s basketball practice facility in a future expansion of the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center.

Literacy 290
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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She also received a 2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association. Although she has reached such heights in her scholarship, she began her college journey with little information or direction about academia, in part because she lacked counseling in high school.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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OER23 part one: Higher Education for Good

Catherine Cronin

I’ve loved participating in the conference every year since 2015, and particularly enjoyed co-chairing with Laura Czerniewicz when the conference came to Galway in 2019. For me, the OER Conference is always special – both because of the warmth and openness of the community as well as the critical focus on open education research and practice.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs. Students give critical thought to how cultures construct and police gender and sexuality and the consequences of that.

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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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.