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HBCUs Continue to Meet Their Mission During Tough Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She and other scholars underlined the critical importance of HBCUs and an inclusive, expansive history curriculum being taught to students K-12 and beyond. Department of Education, 16 states have underfunded their HBCUs by more than $12 billion between 1987 and 2020. According to the U.S.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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Editors of top-tier journals couldn’t comprehend why she chose to focus on Black women instead of Black people generally, and if she wanted to talk about Black women and girls in the courses that she taught, she had to figure out how to slip the material into the pre-designed curriculum. The experience was isolating.

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Finding a Place at an HBCU

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With her dream in sight, she started pursuing a doctorate in higher education administration in 2020 at Baltimore’s Morgan State University, an HBCU. Hollingsworth ended up attending and getting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from the University of Northern Iowa, which has a relatively small Black population. For her Ph.D.,

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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

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Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. That’s when student responses to a survey about the need for a culturally diverse curriculum prompted the creation of two courses related to the Black experience in film and music, says Dr. Carine Sauvignon, executive dean for Massasoit’s Canton campus.

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Bringing Greater Impact

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At the height of the pandemic in 2020, without ever visiting the campus, Dr. David A. The campus movement helped open the space for Black studies, and Black studies as a discipline in return would provide the curriculum that looks at the African American perspective. Photo courtesy of David Canton. I had to get used to that.

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Leaders Call for Active Resistance Against Anti-DEI Measures

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F2L — a group of educators, artists, advocates, and policy makers opposing the book bans and attacks on educational curriculum — wants everyone to resist anti-DEI movements on that day and be loud about what they do, whether that’s reading banned-book author Toni Morrison or engage in a more active demonstration.

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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

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The report found that although 47% of institutions saw accelerating internationalization between 2017 and the start of the pandemic, only 21% described acceleration between 2020 and 2021. This includes partnerships with overseas institutions, faculty with international background and expertise, and curriculum.