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Dr. Jerome Morris Elected Next AERA President, Continuing Legacy of Black Leadership

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Morris will serve as president-elect for the 2025-2026 term before assuming the presidency following the association's 2026 Annual Meeting. Winn, who will serve in 2025-2026 before Morris assumes the presidency. Louis, has been elected as the next president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

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Women’s Wrestling Aims At 2026 NCAA Championship Status

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Women’s wrestling may become the 91st NCAA championship sport in 2026. Second, as the recommendation also includes establishing a Women's Wrestling Committee, which would begin its work in January 2025, to allow time to prepare for a championship in winter 2026. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics voted at its Feb.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

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As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program. which he is expects to defend in 2026 at New York University.

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Universities of Wisconsin Regents Reject Deal to Cut Diversity Efforts

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Wisconsin Republicans have demonstrated clear opposition against the Universities of Wisconsin’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. UW Board of Regents Member Angela Adams The regents’ decision – a close 9-8 vote – came during an Dec. 9 emergency meeting after school leaders had agreed on Dec.

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Male Resource Centers Promote Success Among Men of Color

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Addressing the need Queensborough Community College (QCC), a two-year institution in the City University of New York system, conducted an equity audit that showed there were retention and graduation disparities for male students overall, with Black and Latinx male students disproportionately impacted.

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Lifting As They Climb

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Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. Dr. Maisha T.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

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Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations. We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.” You have to look at [the SCOTUS ruling] as an opportunity. Dr. David A. We have to keep this as our focus.”