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APRIL 17, 2024

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

Stewart previously served as the Secretary of Education for New Mexico and has inspired his thinking about how K-12 schools accessed student resources through Medicaid. The primary barrier colleges face when accessing this funding is a lack of information about its existence and whats required to obtain it. But that has to be funded.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

A new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences offers promising insights into the state of humanities programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), even as humanities degree completions decline across the nation. I can’t begin to stress how important the humanities are to liberation and freedom.”

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JULY 23, 2024

After months of delay, an independent access agreement between North Carolina State University and law firms representing sick clients will allow independent testing to be conducted within Poe Hall to determine the levels and kinds of PCBs present in building materials that may have caused former workers and students to become ill.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

Curry also became one of the founding chairpersons of the Chief Executive Officers of the California Community Colleges Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce in spring 2018. Louden believes now, more than ever, that Comptons faith in humanity is one of its superpowers. We just wanted to help.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Daley, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University, called Poussaint "a legend" and "an influential psychiatrist, scholar, and advocate for equitable access and opportunity." In 1965, he moved to Jackson, Mississippi, to serve as southern field director of the Medical Committee for Human Rights.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

During her 14-year tenure at Montana State University, Cruzado has demonstrated a remarkable commitment to expanding access and success for underrepresented students. Her appointment comes at a crucial time for public higher education, as institutions nationwide grapple with questions of access, affordability, and inclusion.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Florida International University (FIU) has received $6 million to help improve access to mental health services for students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). Limited access to mental health support can lead students to face issues with emotion management, relationship development, and school performance, Pham said.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Hollis will become associate dean for access, equity, and inclusion in the Penn State College of Education, effective Aug. Dr. Leah P.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The new regulations in those dozen states will lead to over 10 million additional K–12 students – 21 percent of current students – gaining guaranteed access to this knowledge, the Survey notes. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Indeed, reading is fundamental. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Today, were at another inflection point because college access has improved, but not enough, credential attainment has improved, but not enough, said Merisotis. Our view is weve got to do more to transform higher education, workforce systems in order to meet human talent needs. Currently, 44.1% of people have such a credential.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Theater doesn’t belong to any particular culture — it belongs to the human impulse to tell stories.” Wallace said Villada’s presence has made theater more accessible for their growing Latinx population. “There are specific skills that need to be taught, to be trained, but we don’t need to do that with the same plays, the same books.

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JANUARY 26, 2025

Service to humanity is the hallmark of philosophy, and in many ways, it shaped who I am and what I'm about in my day to day. Moores work has focused on closing opportunity gaps, increasing access to quality education, and addressing systemic barriers that disproportionately affect marginalized groups. With a budget of approximately $1.8

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

So much that in my last conversation with her on the night of January 16, 2021; she told me that she wanted to write a book on “humanity in healthcare”; adding that “they ought to treat folk humanely”. I believe that at the core of all of our research, planning, polices, and practices should be the elevation of people’s humanity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Among the larger two-year programs are law enforcement, nursing and human services. COIN has an elders-in-residence program through which UM students have access to cultural knowledge speakers and language speakers. We can be the connecting piece to bridge them to those opportunities and provide them the access that they need.”

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

These challenges encompass implicit bias, restricted access to high-quality STEM education, cultural expectations, and socioeconomic disadvantages. Make sure to extend care and recognize each others humanity. For instance, while African Americans make up around 13.7% of the population, they only represent 9% of those in STEM fields.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Kristina Londy Kristina Londy has been named director of student success and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Hyuns determination to include the human-being in transportation engineering makes her scholarship stand out, says Dr. Vistasp Karbhari, professor of civil engineering, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and past president at UTA. Because accessibility is opportunities.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

The truth is you can’t pour from an empty cup, and we are hearing more and more that young people are unable to access the mental health care they need because of how expensive these services can be. Anyone over the age of 18 can also access free professional peer support sessions through our friends at Peer.net.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

The paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of human capital responses to shifts in labor market demand for oft-critiqued undergraduate programs at four-year institutions across the U.S. Stange said institutions that are moderately selective or open access — with more students — tend to be more responsive.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

We see how introductory courses like Calculus play a unique role as a gateway or barrier for racially minoritized students in terms of access to STEM majors and careers,” he says. “We Dr. Donna Y. mathematics, Rutgers University; Ed.M., mathematics education; and Ph.D.,

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JUNE 12, 2023

The professional development program, “Fifty Years Later: The Vietnam War Through the Eyes of Veterans, Vietnamese, and Southeast Asian Refugees,” is funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities and will educate 30 scholars. The program will run Jun. 12-16 residentially and Jun. 19-23 virtually.

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JUNE 7, 2023

and master’s in sociomedical sciences and anthropology as well as a master's in human rights, all from Columbia University. Previously, she was acting dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and director of the Pacific Basin Institute and dean of women at Pomona College. She earned a Ph.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Members of the Fund for Leadership, Equity, Access and Diversity ( LEAD Fund) are mourning the death of their board chair, Dr. Christopher A. Metzler was a graduate of Columbia University in New York, in international human rights, and a graduate of the University of Oxford in England, in human rights law. Dr. Christopher A.

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APRIL 23, 2024

However, rural-serving institutions often do not have the same access to state funding, infrastructure, and human resources as other institutions to provide innovative and responsive programs and supports for rural learners.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2023

As my Administration continues to work toward making higher education more affordable and accessible throughout our state, we recognize that success depends on what happens both in and out of the classroom,” said Murphy.

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JULY 14, 2023

Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors. If we have computers that can operate certain aspects of the higher education environment, then we can re-prioritize what humans do. With the use of a plug-in, ChatGPT can do data analysis and visualizations very quickly, saving human labor.

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MAY 16, 2023

She previously served as vice president of organizational development and human resources; associate vice president of organizational communication and development; and academic coordinator at Valencia College. Amy Bosley Bosley is currently chief of staff and vice president for institutional planning and development at Valencia College.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Cora-Cruz said the project will entail an exploration of access and quality of maternal healthcare and social impacts of care delivery in countries with different healthcare models, Bolivia, England, and Germany. Quality of life is a human right.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Mental health advocacy is important to me because its facet of human life that we dont think about. Of the many things I would change about the world, one of them would be to increase access for higher educational opportunities. I attend Howard University, and I am a psychology major and human development minor.

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MAY 8, 2024

“The school’s mission-vision aligns with my work as a scholar and leader, and I believe the school is poised to reach new heights in the areas of K-12 and higher education, human development, exercise, health, and wellness.”

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JUNE 17, 2024

The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York believes in the dignity of all human beings and stands united against bigotry or hate of any kind on our campuses,” said Board of Trustees Chairman William C. Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights. Thompson Jr. Thompson Jr.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Find your people, learn how to support them, and let them support you when you need it too.” Human interaction is at the center of Dr. Melva Treviño Peña’s work. Treviño Peña, an assistant professor in the department, describes herself as a human geographer, ethnographer, and social scientist. Are they young children?

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Ryan Horio University of California, Los Angeles Project: The Need for Post-Pandemic Mental Health Support Within Asian American College-aged Youth: Addressing Anti-Asian Hate and Sinophobia Through Institutional Interventions Ryan Horio is a fourth-year student at UCLA dual majoring in Asian American Studies and Human Biology & Society.

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JULY 31, 2023

And a second “welcome center” in Quincy, Massachusetts – in the Cove Fine Arts Center on Eastern Nazarene's campus – will be a place to access state shelter and services, the Healey administration said. The center – run by Bay State Community Service and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services – will be open 8 a.m.-8

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JUNE 13, 2024

Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. For example, we have developed an integrated framework to decrease student debt and increase access to outside scholarships. Dr. Montserrat Fuentes is president of St.

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