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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” There have been curriculum advances, increased scholarships, growth in undergraduate research and innovations in student life. She taught in the physics section for two years, leaving when she became immersed in her doctoral research.

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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. That’s when student responses to a survey about the need for a culturally diverse curriculum prompted the creation of two courses related to the Black experience in film and music, says Dr. Carine Sauvignon, executive dean for Massasoit’s Canton campus.

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Aesthete Explores Equity in Disability Studies, Healthcare Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jamal-Eddine said she envisions spoken word poetry becoming one of several tools of humanizing critical narratives that challenge and disrupt harmful hegemonic ideologies within nursing education. “I

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences, mentions the bachelor’s degree in health services management, which began in fall 2019 in response to career interests of students in the health sciences and biological sciences. His role in the creation of the new major has been developing curriculum, course content and rubrics.

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A Different, Ongoing ‘AI’ Problem?in Colleges and Universities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This negation of their humanity and their consequent relegation to sub-human status based on their racial identification provided justification for the pattern of horrific treatment inflicted upon them – a pattern that laid the foundation for the system of chattel slavery later imposed upon millions of hostages stolen from Africa.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Editors of top-tier journals couldn’t comprehend why she chose to focus on Black women instead of Black people generally, and if she wanted to talk about Black women and girls in the courses that she taught, she had to figure out how to slip the material into the pre-designed curriculum. The experience was isolating. They were hiring three.

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Thriving and Flourishing While Black and a Student: What can PWIs do?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

See themselves reflected in the curriculum and in the faculty. student in the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at the University of Idaho. Institutional leaders should actively highlight the academic contributions of African Americans on their campuses to combat these ideas. Dr. Sydney Freeman Jr. •

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