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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. This was the 5th clinic held so far in total, nearly 500 individuals have benefitted.

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. The RRI is also now defunct.

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After the Election We’ll Need a Strong System of Higher Education More Than Ever

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The key to thriving in a tech-mediated world is to recognize the distinction between tasks that can be easily automated and the work that only humans can do—work characterized by creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking. It’s that we must develop our very human capacities for learning and growth.

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AAC&U Awards Frederic W. Ness Book Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ness Book Award from The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The annual award is given to a book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education. Published by Harvard University Press, the book discusses practices of U.S. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Dr. Jarvis R.

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Not All Opinions Deserve a Microphone in the Classroom

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But as Robin Diangelo and zlem Sensoy remind us in their book Is Everyone Really Equal? There is no credible debate about whether humans are contributing to climate change, nor is there a credible debate about the existence of racism. not all perspectives are equally valid. Not all ideas deserve equal time. Its a form of gaslighting.

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The Sooner, The Better: Building Financial Literacy Among Black Students (and Communities)

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Have student-run book and supply stores for the building and/or their classrooms.They will learn how to budget, make profits, comprehend supply and demand. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Offer financial literacy classes in middle school. 3. Business skills.

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A Poetic Path to Social Change - Thomas Kneeland

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Alessandra Lynch, Butler University; Dr. Joshua Bennett Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Teach your students to be human as you teach them everything else. One of his most notable works is a 2023 book of poems, titled We Be Walkin Blackly in the Deep.