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Illinois State University to Launch Online Seminar Series to Teach Faculty on Creating Inclusive Classes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Illinois State University will be launching an online seminar series to help teach faculty how to create inclusive and equitable classes. The other two will be “The Equitable and Inclusive Syllabus” and “Equitable and Inclusive Classroom Culture.”

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Maintaining Inclusive Campuses After Affirmative Action: Educators Discuss Pathways Forward 

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Maintaining Inclusive Campuses After Affirmative Action: Educators Discuss Pathways Forward November 1, 2024 — by Holly Hexter Educators say campuses can maintain multicultural, supportive environments in the aftermath of mandates eliminating affirmative action and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. Create Change.

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Partnership Seeks Revival of Black, Jewish Alliance in Higher Education

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Each institution will provide seminars to educate faculty and students about the shared history of Black-Jewish solidarity, provide a deeper understanding of Jewish identity and Israel, and prepare participants to confront antisemitism in the world.

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Developing Leaders

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Now, Mendoza works with approximately 200 undergraduate students who are part of a leadership program, developing content such as educational seminars and programming for them as well as assisting them in scheduling and budgeting for events and activities. Previously, she had worked outside jobs to support herself.

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How My Classroom Became a Laboratory for Countering Truth Decay

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The course was an honors seminar on race and American politics, focused on current events. The first time I lost control of a college classroom, fiction played a starring role. Or maybe it was the absence of concrete facts. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South. That week’s topic: voting. The year: 2008.

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Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While he knows that a Black Honors College will likely draw some detractors, particularly in the wake of ongoing attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion, he said that he remains committed to the idea. “I’m There will be a seminar room, study space, and lounge, all headquartered on the first floor of the library.

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Advancing Women in Economics is a Moral Imperative: Why Aren’t We Talking About it?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These findings suggest one path forward toward greater gender representation in economics might focus on creating a less masculine and more inclusive culture that is equally inviting to women and men. Advancing a more inclusive field of economics is not only an issue of equity and justice it will also contribute to greater prosperity.