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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Many hope their return signals a deeper commitment to prioritizing Black scholarship in ways that long-suffering, lesser-known Black scholars have not always experiencedeven at HBCUs.

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Dr. Tyson Brown Named Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown joined the Duke faculty in 2016 and has served as director of the Center on Health & Society and faculty leader of the Bass Connections Race and Society theme, both of which are part of Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute. “I Gallimore, provost of Duke University.

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UNCF's Career Pathways Initiative and HBCUv Platform are Driving Transformational Change Through Innovation and Alliances

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Pamela Richardson Wilks, former provost and executive vice president at Paine College and newly named president of Clinton College, began engaging with CPI in 2016 while serving at various UNCF member institutions. During the HBCUv pilot, 400 student and faculty accounts were created on the platform from 5 participating institutions.

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University of Utah Prison Education Project Admits First Cohort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Utah Prison Education Project (UPEP) at the University of Utah is admitting its first cohort of fifteen degree-seeking students incarcerated at the Utah State Correctional Facility. But Dr. Erin Castro’s dedication to UPEP over the last eight years is a shining example of scholarship with real societal impact.”

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education. Before López’s current appointment, she served in a similar role as an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Houston.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Editor's Note: With the exception of the last section about an Anti-Racist, Culturally Competent Special Education Model, the content in this article comes from a recently accepted journal manuscript. CritSEM: Advancing QuantCrit to examine racialized resegregation in special education. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.

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