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

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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. higher education institutions.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Earning the Seal will only deepen our future work in building a richly diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus. 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.

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

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In 2015, Lieberman was named President of the Year by the Association of College Unions International for supporting an inclusive and engaged campus community. She oversaw a Campus Master Plan that reflected the institution’s core values, such as diversity and inclusion. “I Lieberman advocates having pride in community. “Be

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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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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

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conceptually-based, rigorous, and equitable); and (c) create an inclusive classroom setting where all students can experience success, eliminating restrictive and segregated special education placements. culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., The mismeasure of man (Rev. and expanded). Henricks, K.

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Representation Matters

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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. In women’s and gender studies you’re not just talking about gender, but with that comes class, sexual orientation and ablism. “If

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

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In my own journey as a higher education practitioner whose research and practice has always focused on remedying issues of inclusion and diversity, I have long been at odds with how the academy relinquishes its accountability for effecting and imparting social change.