Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

Free expression organization PEN America is suing Florida’s Escambia County School District and School Board, alleging that the district’s recent book bans areunconstitutional. Joining PEN are authors, parents, and the largest book publisher in the country: Penguin Random House.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Senators Patty Murray of Washington and Susan Collins of Maine expressed outrage over reports that New College of Florida discarded hundreds of books, including a book about their leadership in the Senate. We stand against the senseless banning of books.

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JULY 29, 2024

Books have been the gateway to Continue Reading The post Book Bans Are Not Just Bad Policy; They Can Raise Civil Rights Issues appeared first on ED.gov Blog.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

“Since the second decade of the nineteenth century, black-owned book publishing has existed in the United States, the books released by these publishing enterprises have vindicated blacks, documented black culture and history, and addressed the special concerns of black people in ways which white book publishers have not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As an author and co-author, she has written several articles and books including Higglers in Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica , The Toni Morrison Book Club , and Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies , and she is working on a new book, Neoliberalism in a Small Place: The Case of Jamaica.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Universal Write Publications (UWP) was founded in 2004 by Dr. Ayo Sekai and has flourished from a passion project publishing fiction and children’s books into a respected publisher of rigorous, peer-reviewed academic literature.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

She didn’t buy the book for me as a young aspiring journalist who was still in college at the time, although I’m sure she would have. In 1997 — just three years after McCall’s book came out — Black people represented about 12% of the population, but only 5.42% of the newsroom workforce. which it still isn’t after all these years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

The ASALH Author’s Book Signing will feature selected authors sharing and discussing books on African American history and culture. Hasan Jeffries of The Ohio State University with Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of the Washington Informer, serving as emcee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

He is credited with coining the term "ethnic studies" to replace "minority studies" and was a productive researcher and scholar, publishing a number of books with his late wife, Dr. Julia Hare. The two founded the Black Think Tank in 1979 to address some of the problems and challenges within the African American community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As debates over how students should learn about race heat up and K-12 schools ban more and more books, it’s an increasingly urgent concern. If I’m a Black child, and I read about myself in a book, I need to read that I have agency over my life just like when I read about a white character.” Any censorship of any kind is bad,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Under pseudonyms Geri and Jay Hart, the two have also published two books about their experiences in the adult film industry, though pictures clearly indicate their identities. Gow has argued that the creation of the books and videos falls under free speech and did not use any university property, funds, or time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Hill has been writing since she was a child, growing up around books and hearing stories. And the very existence of her book itself made her the first American poet and second poet ever to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing house. “I She just didn’t tell anyone about it. Dr. DaMaris B. in English from Morgan State, then a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

7, there will be a panel highlighting some contributors to the book, Black Lives Matter & Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection , who will lead a discussion on the power of Black music in the struggle for freedom and liberation. Martha Biondi and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly of Wayne State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Esdaile complained about the book, Yale and Slavery: A History , published alongside Yale’s apology. Esdaile said the book did not include information about the university’s historical ties to eugenics and further criticized whether $10 million for student to return to Yale would help people of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2023

The convening – the inaugural NCBCP "Rebuild Hope, Justice, Equity and Equality" Southern Organizing Leadership Convening – will be guided by the theme, "The Power of the Ballot, the Book, and the Buck," and will discuss matters such as voting, reproductive, workers’, and LGBTQ+ rights. "In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

The book covers the nation’s history of trying to keep Chinese immigrants and laborers out – per the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and subsequent legislation – and how it ties back to the racial violence historically brought onto these communities on a national scale. from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

She won the AERA Early Career Award in 2012 and the Qualitative Research SIG’s 2015 Outstanding Book Award for Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (SAGE, co-edited with D. She is co-founder and co-director of the Transformative Justice in Education Center at the University of California, Davis.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The post Behind The Book: Q&A with the authors of Interactive Group Work (second edition) appeared first on Counseling Today. The co-authors of the second edition of Interactive Group Work discuss the benefits and challenges of group work and what it takes to be an effective group leader.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2024

Dr. Connie Book Dr. C. As AI begins to influence teaching and learning, as well as many operations of colleges and universities, students need a road map to help navigate these changes,” said Elon President Dr. Connie Book.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

.; David Goetsch, associate director of recruitment compliance at Emory; Dr. Eric Solomon, visiting assistant professor of English and American studies at Oxford College; and Sarah Luce Look, co-owner of independent feminist bookstore Charis Books and More. Additionally, audience members were able to tell their own stories during an open mic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Through the Voices of Men: South African Men and HIV (Linus Learning, 2011) was inspired by research on the proliferation of HIV cases and is part of a book series that includes Dual Pandemics: HIV and the Coronavirus in Several Kenyan Communities (Linus Learning, 2024). Those fears have faded. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

One of the few Black tax law professors at a top law school, Dorothy Brown, made a big splash a few years ago with her book, The Whiteness of Wealth. Named one of the best books of the year by NPR and Fortune , it showed “how American tax law rewards the preferences and practices of white people while pushing Black people further behind.”

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Active Minds

JUNE 1, 2023

In the spirit of this celebration, we’re taking a stand against book bans and the attacks on transgender students, reinforcing our unwavering support for the rights of our LGBTQ+ youth and young adults and working to safeguard their mental health in every way we can.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

25-29 ASALH conference will feature a rich program of scholarly sessions, professional workshops, historical tours, a film festival, book signings, and many other events that illuminate the importance of the current struggle to own and control our own narrative.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

The University of Houston is providing all undergraduate students with the books they need for a flat fee through the Cougar Textbook Access Program (CTAP). CTAP ensures our students don’t have to wait for their books. The fee for fall and spring is $299 and $180 for summer. We want to make sure all students start ready to learn.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bouck is published in over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and has authored six books and over 30 book chapters. She examines such technological approaches as virtual manipulatives and the virtual manipulative-based instructional sequences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

What Chua had intended as a semi-comedic study of parenting at a cultural intersection quickly became a hotly contested book. “A If you actually read the book, you realize that it gets really complicated. If you want to write the book, write the book.’” A lot of people were talking about it without having read it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Leaders will speak on the connection between book bans, anti-CRT or “anti-woke” laws, and the suppression of other civil liberties and social justice values as part of a coordinated far-right effort to extinguish civil rights at all levels of federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2024

Dr. Margaret Price The sentiment — addressing the dearth of disability accommodations in higher education that she and others have experienced — appears in her new book, Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024). “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2024

F2L — a group of educators, artists, advocates, and policy makers opposing the book bans and attacks on educational curriculum — wants everyone to resist anti-DEI movements on that day and be loud about what they do, whether that’s reading banned-book author Toni Morrison or engage in a more active demonstration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Hollis has authored or co-authored 37 peer-reviewed journal articles, seven book chapters, and 17 scholarly essays, as well as published four books.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Randi Weingarten As part of the “#AFTvotes—What Kids and Communities Need” tour, union members will rally at community events, such as book giveaways, roundtables, canvassing, and door knocking. The union said it is opposed to book-banning, censoring of history, and cutting Medicare and Social Security. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

McMillan Cottom’s dissertation research at Emory explored for-profit colleges, which led to her first book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, which published in 2017 and catapulted her onto the national scene. “I McMillan Cottom’s second book, THICK: And Other Essays, was published in 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. But much of the book highlights how the American higher education system has become the envy of the world — sending thousands of students each year flocking to the United States to commence study.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Wilkinson earned several professional civic honors and awards over her career, writing, publishing, and reviewing several professional article and books. “It is with deep sadness that I learn of her passing, but I am comforted in knowing that her legacy continues to run deep across the foundation of our community.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

She says the goal of her research is to help Black students to “freedom dream,” a term inspired by Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination , a 2002 book by Dr. Robin D.G. One of her fondest memories is of getting books from the library with her family and then discussing them in the living room. “I Nash Endowed Chair in U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Crenshaw said she expects the event will help to “empower participants with the essential knowledge and tools needed to confront systemic racism and advocate for transformative change in their communities.”

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