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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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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

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college.

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A Note to the Owner of “Our Executive Slaves"

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As the oft-quoted Toni Morrison so astutely observed, racism functions as a distraction , a ceaseless drag on the work of progress, diverting our energy to the defense of our humanity. If the platforms facilitating these messages refuse to take responsibility, then they are complicit.

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Humanity in Healthcare Emphasized in Youth Career Pathways Partnership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So much that in my last conversation with her on the night of January 16, 2021; she told me that she wanted to write a book on “humanity in healthcare”; adding that “they ought to treat folk humanely”. I believe that at the core of all of our research, planning, polices, and practices should be the elevation of people’s humanity.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among the larger two-year programs are law enforcement, nursing and human services. The Metro-Wide American Indian Graduation Celebration facilitates conversations between tribal colleges and four-year institutions. On-campus enrollment is approximately 615 students. That doesn’t include FDLTCC’s college in the high school program.

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Ariella Robbins, Villanova University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She led a partnership between the Universitys Office of Human Resources and the Villanova Initiative to Support Inclusiveness and Build Leaders to plan and facilitate Hiring for Villanovas Future training for employees serving on search committees.

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Opal Lee to Receive Honorary Degree

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Civil rights icon Opal Lee will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Southern Methodist University (SMU). Candice Lucas-Bledsoe, director of the Action Research Center in Dallas and SMU Cox Executive Education facilitator, will moderate the discussion.