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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. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. She will replace Dr. Shaun R.

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Panel: Erasing Black History Threatens to Harm Black Community, Students, and Nation's Future

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Janel George The panel – part of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s larger National Racial Equity Initiative for Social Justice (NREI) Summit – brought together experts to discuss contemporary attacks against the inclusion of Black history in societal awareness and education. the NREI website stated. What am I learning?

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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

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A few days ago, I went to my office to get one of my students a book of great interest. To problem-solving? · An Equity Pedagogy. When educators are equity-oriented, they are responsive to their students’ needs to help their achieve at higher levels. In searching the shelves, I came across Dr. James A.

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Leaders Call for Active Resistance Against Anti-DEI Measures

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NEW YORK – At the National Action Network (NAN) Convention in New York City, social justice leaders gathered to discuss the impact of anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) legislation introduced or signed into law in states like Texas, Florida, and Alabama. We’re in the fight of our lives with this election.”

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HBCUs Continue to Meet Their Mission During Tough Times

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She and other scholars underlined the critical importance of HBCUs and an inclusive, expansive history curriculum being taught to students K-12 and beyond. Dunbar shared her stories with the gathered crowd on the final day of the College Board’s "A Dream Deferred: a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Conference."

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Why Does Fear Surround DEI Efforts?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

People sat outside on blankets, chatting or reading books. In each school my white peers saw themselves reflected in the curriculum, their history was presented every day within the classroom and in the library, administrative offices, and even in the halls of the school. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is not the boogeyman.

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Natural Allies: How Diversity Leaders and Community Engagement Leaders Build Democracy Together

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Across the country, state legislators have been debating—and in several cases passing— legislation that censors teaching and learning, threatens academic freedom, and limits or eliminates diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and efforts both on and off campuses.

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