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UPitt Dean Works to Advance Equity in Policy, Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“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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After Settlement with Howard University, Students Call for Sweeping Changes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 How is that going to impact missions?”

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All Ain’t Fair in Love and Basketball for Black Women

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But] I'm still human. The white supremacist-cis-hetero-patriarchal-capitalist society in which we live denies Black women their humanity. Stay demanding the respect your humanity deserves. All this has happened since I won the national championship, and it sucks. [B]ut B]ut I still wouldn't change anything. Stay doing you.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for students who entered in 2017. Waller does not come from an engineering background, but when he began studying for his master’s degree in counseling and human development, he found himself fascinated with engineering, which led him to Virginia Tech for his doctoral studies in curriculum instruction. That rose to 61.2%

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Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

So, I have loved having opportunities to do the good work, to have more impact over time, and to now lead an institution that is fundamentally about access, equity, inclusion, for people who are left behind in higher education.” access and inclusion for all, regardless of background.

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Capabilities Approach & open education

Catherine Cronin

The theory was a significant contribution in the field of human development, encouraging a move beyond blunt indicators like GDP and income levels to assess poverty (Nussbaum, 2011a ) and providing new ways of evaluating the quality of the lives of individuals and societies (Robeyns, 2017 ). Beetham, 2016 ).