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Women's Educational Equity Takes On Technology

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“While American women have advanced in the last 175 years, we haven’t come close to achieving equity,” said Laura Rebell-Gross, senior managing director of Girls’ Education with the Student Leadership Network, a nonprofit organization working for educational equity.

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UPitt Dean Works to Advance Equity in Policy, Practice

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Valerie Kinloch Kinloch does the work in her leadership role as the Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean of University of Pittsburgh’s (UPitt) School of Education, a position she has held since July 2017. In that time, Kinloch said she has strived to bolster equity and justice at the school. Smith University. is bad,” Kinloch said.

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Dr. Cheryl Crazy Bull Recognized for Social Equality Work

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It is an honor to be recognized along with other activists who build community and opportunity through race and equity work,” Crazy Bull said. Cheryl Crazy Bull, a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation and president and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, was one of six U.S.

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Dr. Kim Schatzel Named President of University of Louisville

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Kim Schatzel Schatzel – currently president of Towson University (TU) – previously served as provost of Eastern Michigan University and dean of the College of Business at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, A first-generation college student herself, she has been praised for making diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a priority.

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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

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Since the mid-1970s, the Latino college student population has increased fivefold, with one out of every five college students being Latino by 2017. Over the last four decades, Latino and African-American students were among the fastest-growing demographics in higher education. During the same 40-year period, Black enrollment doubled.

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Dr. J. Luke Wood to Become President of Sacramento State University

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Wood began his academic career as a professor at San Diego State University (SDSU) in 2011, and the next year became co-director, with Dr. Frank Harris III, of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL), which focuses on eliminating equity gaps for students of color. He’s a visionary individual, a brilliant Black male.

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Universities Partner to Investigate and Determine What Makes a “Universal Basic Neighborhood”

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Louisville morbidity and mortality rates vastly differ for those living in its various neighborhoods, according to a 2017 Health Equity Report from the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness. “This work is about diagnosing and treating places so that the health benefits are shared by many.”