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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. 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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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She also serves as project director of the Males for Alabama Education (MALE) initiative, a state-funded program scholarship and mentorship program for minority men walking the teacher education pathway. Once we received funding from the state, I was able to collaboratively develop the program,” Strachan said. “We We have an academic adviser.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships. She is also the founder and president of Moore Wealth, Inc., a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly slowed Moore’s research and her ability to train her students.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 spaces I work in are more policy, behavioral economics, anything that deals with human behavior.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Specifically, in comparison to 2019, the previous assessment year, average mathematics scores for grade 4 students were lower in 2022 for American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Hispanic, students of Two or More Races, and white students (see [link] ). Dr. Donna Y. Fletcher Jr.,

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Why You Aren’t Hiring the Employees You Want

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The response to our 2019 #RealCollege Survey showed that 39% of students experienced food insecurity in the last thirty days. Sheetz Sheetz provides scholarship opportunities not only to their employees, but to the children and stepchildren of employees. They provide training for tech jobs that don’t require four-year degrees.

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OER23 part one: Higher Education for Good

Catherine Cronin

I’ve loved participating in the conference every year since 2015, and particularly enjoyed co-chairing with Laura Czerniewicz when the conference came to Galway in 2019. For me, the OER Conference is always special – both because of the warmth and openness of the community as well as the critical focus on open education research and practice.