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Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DeCuir-Gunby has published four books, including Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Motivation in Education [Routledge, 2016] and Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies [Routledge, 2019]. She is an APA Fellow and an American Educational Research Association Fellow.

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University of Utah Prison Education Project Admits First Cohort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Erin Castro, the associate dean and associate professor who co-founded the initiative with 12 undergraduate honors students in 2016. It is never a given that academic research will translate directly and impactfully to the transformation of our local communities,” said Laanan.

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before UVM, he helped launch the Amherst College Press in 2013 and led a consortium of libraries in creating the open-access Lever Press in 2016. I understand the mission of libraries to be a rather simple one, which is in part to make sure that everybody who needs good information and scholarship has access to that,” Geffert said.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Culturally Competent Educator: Dispositions, Knowledge, and Skills. [1] Minorities are disproportionately underrepresented in special education: Longitudinal evidence across five disability conditions. Educational Researcher , 44 , 278–292. Are Black children disproportionately overrepresented in special education?

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Professor Sues Hamilton College for Racial Discrimination

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mwantuali says that when he asked a white colleague to nominate him, she demanded to see a signed book contract as proof of his scholarship. One of the starkest differences, Mwantuali alleges, came when he tried to advance to full professorship, a process that requires a nomination. When he showed her two, she still would not support him.

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