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Report: Black Girls Receive More Frequent and More Severe Discipline in School Than Other Girls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education data in the 2017-2018 school year. Government Accountability Office (GAO), points out that Black girls tend to face more and harsher forms of discipline than other girls including higher suspension and expulsion rates. The report’s conclusion is based on an analysis of U.S.

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Supreme Court's Hollow Ruling One Year Later: Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Students Left Behind in the Pursuit of a 'Race-Blind' Agenda’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the fall of 2018, I was a student organizer for affirmative action and one of eight alumni who took the federal witness stand in the lawsuit Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), Inc. In 2018, Chen was a student organizer and expert witness for the defense in Students for Fair Admissions vs. President and Fellows of Harvard College

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ASCA 2018 Presentation – Make Your School Counseling Program POP with PR and Marketing

The Counseling Geek

ASCA 2018 Presentation - Make Your School Counseling Program POP with PR and Marketing. Check out our presentation from the 2018 ASCA Conference in LA. I had the opportunity to present with Franciene Sabens at the 2018 American School Counselor Association conference in July 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An AERA fellow, she was elected to AERA’s Executive Board and Council from 2018 to 2021, has been liaison to AERA’s Graduate Student Council and International Relations Committee, and co-edited Review of Research in Education, an AERA peer-reviewed journal.

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Dr. Claudine Gay’s Resignation from the Harvard Presidency Possibly Saved Her Life

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black women who aspire to and ultimately achieve an institutional presidency will always have a tough road due to institution-sanctioned violence, a concept Nadrea Njoku and I wrote about in 2018. Prior to her selection as president of Harvard, Gay had been an impossibility for nearly 400 years of that institution’s history.

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Thomas to Retire from Morehouse in 2025

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Thomas took the helm as the 12th president at Morehouse in January 2018. Thomas holds a bachelor’s degree in administrative sciences from Yale College and a master’s in organizational psychology from Columbia University as well as a master’s and Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Yale University.

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Greenstein Announces PASSHE Departure

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“He is passionate about higher education, he is passionate about student success, and we are a better system today because of his leadership,” said Shapira. Greenstein began his service as chancellor Sept.