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College Fund Offers American Indian Law School Scholarship to Attend Harvard Law

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Indian College Fund has announced its third American Indian Law School Scholarship for a student entering Harvard Law School in the fall of 2024. Samantha Maltais, an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, is the current scholarship recipient.

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

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This year, Hall published an article with the Journal of First-Generation Student Success about the lived experiences of Black undocumented students, highlighting the ways higher education has excluded them from immigration discourse and support. Faculty can also bring the work and stories of undocumented immigrants into their curriculum.

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

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In addition, she has published dozens of articles in Educational Researcher , Review of Educational Research , Educational Psychologist , Contemporary Educational Psychology , Teachers College Record , and many other top journals. “I She will bring tremendous vision and insight to this important leadership opportunity.”

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

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It’s scholarship in a different form.” In 2018, Gray and his colleagues won the Best Article Award for a publication in Educational Psychologist, titled “Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures.” They make all kinds of videos, mixtapes, and songs,” he says.

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

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In the wake of the COVID pandemic, where so many researchers pivoted to Zoom to share their scholarship during webinars, Burt thought that he needed to create a new way to make his research more accessible to others outside of the academy.

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An Equity and Access Champion

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As an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies (ELPS) and coordinator of the college student personnel program at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she is working to achieve that goal with her scholarship and her administrative responsibilities. Cristobal Salinas Jr., affect the day-to-day lives of students.”

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Staying Woke for A Cause

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I had already been taking part in the sit-ins and civil rights demonstrations, so when I read that article in the paper, I knew that too, was something I could do something about,” he recalls. “So, Flagship Pathway Scholarship Endowment in 2021. It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students.