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Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. Her research has been cited in more than 9,000 published studies. She will replace Dr. Shaun R.

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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With the demise of affirmative action, threats to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI), and policies in higher education there might not be an immediate increase in the number of Black men seeking to enroll in higher education.

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New Video Series Showcases Research on Black Males Navigating and Succeeding in STEM

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Burt “Aspiring to a career in engineering can be daunting for Black males and a less traveled road they are expected to pave themselves,” said Burt, a UW-Maidson professor of education and director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB). Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. “We

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

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Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. Gray says he felt pressure to produce another article when a friend came to him and said that the idea was not done because the scholarship was just one leg of the relay.

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An Urgent Solution Required: Too Many Guns are Killing Too Many of our Children.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is the weekend, and we are in Chicago, having just attended the four-day 2023 AERA (The American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting, "Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth." Are the current oppressive educational policies (i.e., Police response and training.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s.

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Spotlighting Rural Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Means Title: Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh Age: 39 Education: B.A., counselor education (student affairs), Clemson University; and Ph.D., vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Molloy University and a 2020 Emerging Scholar, in his letter nominating Means this year. “My

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