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Anti-Apartheid Advocate and Human Rights Activist Randall Robinson Dies at 81

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Renowned human rights activist and civil rights lawyer Randall Robinson died Mar. from Harvard Law School – also spent time teaching as a professor of human rights law at Penn State University. Kitts in the Caribbean, with his wife, Hazel Ross-Robinson, in 2001. "I 24 at age 81. Left to right) Sen. Robinson – he held a J.D.

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Life and Learning, the Washington Way

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Jamie Washington Washington connects all these responsibilities and commitments with a very simple but unifying approach: find the humanity inside everyone. “I I try to spend my days choosing love, choosing hope, choosing patience, and choosing humanity,” says Washington, adding that by doing so, he is “honoring the power of choice.”

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Stanford President Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne to Resign After Investigation Found Research Data Manipulation

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At various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged—in 2001, the early 2010s, 2015-2016, and March 2021—Dr. Former Dean of Humanities Dr. Richard Saller will become interim president.

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DREAM Conference Marks Milestone

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There was also a robust focus on the humanities. I think that is injecting new energy and new thinking into the movement,” says Stout, who previously led Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2015. “We ATD is not just a conference,” says Dr. Karen A. Stout, who has led the organization since 2015.

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Dr. Condoleezza Rice

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Bush’s national security adviser from January 2001-2005, the first woman to hold the position. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. Rice also served as President George W. She has authored and co-authored numerous books, including two bestsellers.

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars

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It has remained one of the magazine’s most popular editions since its inception. Diverse editors select honorees from a pool of candidates recommended by various scholars, department chairs, university public information officers, and others.

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Pride in the Halls

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Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. The Point Foundation was founded in 2001 and most of its early applicants were gay males whose parents refused to pay for college after they came out. Dr. Luis A.