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Dr. Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, University of Southern California

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching at the University of Southern California (USC). She is the executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. Previously, she served as department head of the Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences at NC State University.

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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With the demise of affirmative action, threats to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI), and policies in higher education there might not be an immediate increase in the number of Black men seeking to enroll in higher education. of students enrolled in colleges and universities.

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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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Making Math More Equitable

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I love seeing my feed blow up w/ the news that numerous research proposals adopting critical & intersectional approaches to advancing justice in math & STEM higher ed were accepted as presentations during the 2024 @AERA_EdResearch Annual Mtg in Philadelphia. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students.

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Rutgers University Union Members Vote to Ratify Tentative Agreements

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

About 93% of Rutgers University educators, researchers, and clinicians have voted to ratify tentative agreements reached by their bargaining committees, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The contracts also include clauses for an improved appeals process for pay equity. raise over the contract.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burt “Aspiring to a career in engineering can be daunting for Black males and a less traveled road they are expected to pave themselves,” said Burt, a UW-Maidson professor of education and director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB). Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. “We

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. At Black and Belonging, Gray co-constructs initiatives with students that show the world how to affirm them and show their teachers how to teach them. It’s scholarship in a different form.”