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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

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This increase, while notable, also highlights the persistent challenges that remain in achieving true gender equity at the highest levels of academia. Accolades for the Moving the Needle campaign are not hard to find among women whove ascended to the highest echelon of the academy since the ACE-led initiative began in 2009.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

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In 2009, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University in New Orleans, an HBCU and the only Black Catholic institution in the world. It was a move made by President Eli Capilouto in an effort to protect diversity, equity, and inclusion roles and institutional goals from legislative attacks and attention.

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Why Inclusive Education Is So Difficult to Defend and Deliver

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The incident spread rapidly, picked up by conservative media outlets as another example of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) gone wrong in the classroom. 2003 ; Bloom, 2009 ). One called the lesson “retraumatizing,” another said it “evoked so many deeply hurtful things about this country.”

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Civil Rights Group Details Opposition to McMahon Education Nomination

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Her primary experience comes from co-founding and running WWE, with no substantial background in education policy prior to 2009. The think tank has reportedly drafted nearly 300 executive orders and called for defunding diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at universities. The LDF, which won the landmark Brown v.

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Office for Civil Rights Commences Title VI Investigations Against 45 Universities

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Trump that sought to end diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs among federal government grantees and contractors, which includes most colleges and universities. 418, 426 (2009). Holder , 556 U.S. Entered at the direction of Chief Judge Albert Diaz, with the concurrence of Judge Pamela Harris and Judge Allison Rushing.

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We Are Not Like Them

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You mean, I didnt have to use what Dr. Joe Feagin (2009) referred to as the White Racial Frame to scaffold identitymy Blackness could stand on its own? To define and explore who I was, did not have to be based on the definitions and experiences of the otherespecially when the other was outside of the Black diaspora.

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Health Equity, Working to Identify Effective Policy Interventions

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Since 2009, she’s been engaged in research relating to health services and health equity, she said. “My In addition, I identify effective health policy interventions by really looking at different natural experiments and different healthcare behaviors and interventions to address health disparities and equity.”