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Cole, Lewis Receive National Humanities Medal at the White House

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From March 2013 to 2018, he served as president of The Andrew W. I am proud to join President Biden in recognizing these distinguished leaders for their outstanding contributions to our nation’s cultural life.” Mellon Foundation. An author and esteemed social historian, he was the former president of the Organization of American Historians.

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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

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Although she has reached such heights in her scholarship, she began her college journey with little information or direction about academia, in part because she lacked counseling in high school. “I As an example, she authored a 2018 article on the experiences of a gifted Black male with a traumatic brain injury.

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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. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3%

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

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This is necessary but must include intentional and proactive scholarship and resources on racial identity development. Since their creation, tests have disproportionately hindered access to gifted and talented education (GATE), AP, college acceptance (particularly to elite higher education institutions), scholarships, and so on.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

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These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Edward C. We have a long way to go to achieve equity in the academy for Black males.

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For the Common Good

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Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences, mentions the bachelor’s degree in health services management, which began in fall 2019 in response to career interests of students in the health sciences and biological sciences. The second is undergraduate scholarships for health science students that are interested in careers in public health.

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Context, Cultural Insight Bring Diversity to the Dramatic Arts

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Stepping into a scholarship void In graduate school, realizing there were virtually no books on Asian American theater history, she began interviewing Asian American theater artists around the U.S. Lee joined the faculty at Duke University in 2018 and is pleased to report that Duke recently established a minor in Asian American Studies.