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Scholar-Activist Returns Home: Dr. Kala Burrell-Craft Named Dean of Grambling State's College of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burrell-Craft, who will begin her tenure in Summer 2025, is the fourth generation in her family to be associated with Grambling, following her grandfather, parents, and brotherall alumni of the institution. "Dr. She holds advanced certifications in English and special education.

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Education Research Groups Urge ED to Finalize Civil Rights Data Collection

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education to immediately finalize the Civil Rights Data Collection for the 2025-26 school year, warning that delays could jeopardize a critical federal tool for monitoring educational equity. Eleven leading education research organizations are pressing the U.S.

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DEI Under Attack: The Truth from the Frontlines of Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The 2025 National Action Network (NAN) Convention continues to be a clarion call for justice, strategy, and truth-telling. The administration's weaponization of the acronym has become a strategic assault to reassert white supremacy, particularly that of white male dominance. Alford, SVP, The Grio.

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Celebrating the Incredible Emerging Scholars of 2025

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Active Minds is honored to share our 2025 Emerging Scholars and their incredible research. Juky Chen The City College of New York Project: DreaMHealth: Elevating the Voices of Undocumented Students Juky Chen is a junior at The City College of New York, majoring in Business Administration. in a Psychology-related discipline.

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Celebrating the Incredible Emerging Scholars of 2025 Copy

Active Minds

Active Minds is honored to share our 2025 Emerging Scholars and their incredible research. Juky Chen The City College of New York Project: DreaMHealth: Elevating the Voices of Undocumented Students Juky Chen is a junior at The City College of New York, majoring in Business Administration. in a Psychology-related discipline.

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Statues Don’t Pay Stipends: Bethune at 150 and the Cost of Invisible Labor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

1929 J uly 10, 2025, marks the 150th birthday of the woman who wrote that line. Fast-forward to 2025. That barter—life skills for literacy—kept Bethune’s kerosene lamps burning long before white philanthropy lit its first match at the then-Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls. Dr. Crystal A.

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Former Library of Congress Chief Carla Hayden Joins Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hayden's transition to the Mellon Foundation follows her controversial dismissal from the Library of Congress in May 2025. The administration's criticism focused on Hayden's diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and her efforts to make the library's collections more representative of America's diverse communities.