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AAUP Statement Ends Opposition to Academic Boycotts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The statement reconsiders AAUP's categorical opposition to academic boycotts from the 2006 report, On Academic Boycotts , maintaining that such boycotts are not in themselves violations of academic freedom but can be legitimate tactical responses to conditions that are fundamentally incompatible with the mission of higher education.

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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Referencing Parekh (2006), “Multicultural education is an education for freedom that is essential in today’s ethnically polarized and troubled world” (p.7). That was 2006; now, look at the state of affairs in 2024. This is a major misguided perception of those who oppose EDI. I want to end with a most timely quote.

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Annual Black, Brown, College Bound Summit Commences March 6

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The BBCB Summit has seen more than 5,000 participants since 2006, including students from nearly two dozen different states. “The summit is open to all students allowing a space to network and connect with others who have surpassed the obstacles and become successful. The path to that success beginning with completing a college degree.”

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University of Miami President to Lead at UCLA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He served as Mexico’s secretary of health from 2000 to 2006, when his reform efforts helped expand access to health care for more than 55 million uninsured people. Among his career accomplishments, the Mexico native was the founding director of Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health.

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More Presidential Vacancies at HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2006, presidents spent an average of 8.5 He has led the institution for the past five years. In 2023, the American Council on Education (ACE) released their study of over 1,000 college presidents, which revealed the tenure of the presidency has diminished. years in charge. By 2022, that number shrunk to 5.9

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Arlethia Perry-Johnson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She joined Kennesaw State in 2006 when she was appointed special assistant to the president for external affairs. That, says Perry-Johnson, vice president of external affairs, has come with amassing nearly three decades of communications and public affairs experience, with most in higher education.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

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For example, Jamal Watson’s 2006 story about a lawsuit against the sponsors of a summer high school workshop I once attended was alarming. (“Lawsuit Blasts Minority Journalism Program As Exclusionary, Discriminatory,” Nov. 2, 2006) 6. With its “noteworthy news” pages, Diverse reports the good and bad news that sometimes hits home.