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Ariella Robbins, Villanova University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ariella Robbins is Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Villanova University, a post she has held since November 2024. Robbins also established Employee Resource Groups to provide support and engagement to faculty and staff.

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Uplifting BIPOC-Centered Mental Health Research With the 2024 Emerging Scholars

Active Minds

Active Minds is proud to introduce our 2024 Emerging Scholars Fellows! Active Minds is excited to be able to facilitate change by supporting our fellows through funding, mentorship, and amplification. Asli McCullers Project HeartHEAL (Health, Equity, and Love) Asli McCullers is a first-year Ph.D.

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Leaders Call for Active Resistance Against Anti-DEI Measures

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NEW YORK – At the National Action Network (NAN) Convention in New York City, social justice leaders gathered to discuss the impact of anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) legislation introduced or signed into law in states like Texas, Florida, and Alabama. We’re in the fight of our lives with this election.”

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Morehouse Joins Initiative to Bring College Courses to Disadvantaged High Schoolers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It's one of the new offerings coordinated by the National Education Equity Lab, an educational justice nonprofit that brings credit-bearing college courses into Title I and Title I-eligible high schools, at which large numbers of students come from families with little money. More partnerships are currently being explored.

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Kudos to Black/Diverse Issues for Four Decades of Truth, Insight, Vision, and Integrity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Partly because conservatives were successful in assigning negative implications to the term “affirmative action,” the expression diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) came into use to describe and facilitate processes that resulted in greater access and participation for people from marginalized communities. Dr. William B.

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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. To problem-solving? · An Equity Pedagogy.

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Cultural Competence: A Critical Skill for Today’s Police Officers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Recruits develop cognitive skills that facilitate trust, legitimacy, and policing practices. However, values such as cultural appreciation and equity-minded decision-making often elude officers who interact daily with people from diverse backgrounds.