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UPitt Dean Works to Advance Equity in Policy, Practice

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“To advance equitable policies that are grounded in education is to understand the full humanity of people,” she said. “It Dr. Valerie Kinloch Kinloch does the work in her leadership role as the Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean of University of Pittsburgh’s (UPitt) School of Education, a position she has held since July 2017.

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Women's Educational Equity Takes On Technology

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“While American women have advanced in the last 175 years, we haven’t come close to achieving equity,” said Laura Rebell-Gross, senior managing director of Girls’ Education with the Student Leadership Network, a nonprofit organization working for educational equity. We’re living inside someone else’s imagination.”

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A Commitment to Help Others

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Now, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health is recognizing and honoring her with the 2023 ASPPH Early Career Teaching Excellence Award for her most recent work as a clinical associate professor at the Georgia State University School of Public Health, a role she has held since August 2017. “I Armstrong-Mensah holds a Ph.D.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

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As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, SACNAS remains rooted in a belief that science cannot be properly taught, researched, or applied to human beings’ daily existence unless scientists bring some essential parts of their background and worldview to that sphere. from Duke University in 2017. “I It backfired.

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70 Years After Brown v. Board of Education

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Ford, a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. “We During the 2017-18 school year, white students made up 58.4% And that is equity.” Now, Black teachers comprise about 7% of U.S. I don't think Brown v. We are suffering gravely, extensively, from this loss of Black teachers.”

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After Settlement with Howard University, Students Call for Sweeping Changes

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It all came to a head on April 23, 2017, the night of Howard’s Student Choice Awards, where Ross won Activist of the Year. Office of Human Rights, which found Howard failed to provide Ross “reasonable accommodation based on his disability.” That night, after celebrating with friends and drinks, the joy turned bitter.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. for students who entered in 2017. Taylor Cupp When Watford began CEED, the graduation rate for Black engineering students was around 25%. That rose to 61.2%

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