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Historical Book about Conservatives and Campus Wars Has Relevance in 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The book “complicates our understanding of right-wing backlash as populist, since the narrators within were college students at a time when higher education was inaccessible to most,” writes Shepherd. The inclusion of Ivy League and other institutions throws this dynamic into even further relief. Dr. Stefan M.

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Dr. Leah P. Hollis Appointed to Access, Equity, and Inclusion Post at Penn State

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Hollis will become associate dean for access, equity, and inclusion in the Penn State College of Education, effective Aug. Hollis has authored or co-authored 37 peer-reviewed journal articles, seven book chapters, and 17 scholarly essays, as well as published four books. Dr. Leah P.

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How Higher Ed Can Help Underserved Communities Access Broadband

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Postsecondary education provides graduates with greater access to job opportunities and higher earning potential throughout their lifetimes. Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities , a book Mossberger coauthored with Dr. Caroline J. But broadband access varies across regions, states, and even towns.

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Natural Allies: How Diversity Leaders and Community Engagement Leaders Build Democracy Together

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Across the country, state legislators have been debating—and in several cases passing— legislation that censors teaching and learning, threatens academic freedom, and limits or eliminates diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and efforts both on and off campuses. Community engagement requires a holistic and campus-wide approach.

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

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This involves (re)evaluating and (re)shaping multiple aspects of education to create a more inclusive, diverse, and equitable learning environment. This negative indoctrination starts early, as demonstration in a children’s book. How do we do this? For example, consider how we use dark to mean bad , evil , and frightening.

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What Are the Big Higher Education Stories for 2024?

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Access, affordability, and free speech will continue to make headlines in higher education. Other issues in the news will include diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Bonner has his own book series with Routledge, titled Diverse Faculty in the Academy. That, too, could end up in court.” With the U.S.

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Pathways to Racial Democracy in America

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Ivery In my recent book, Detroit and the New Political Economy of Public Education (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022), I use Detroit as a national template to explore the new dynamics of public education segregation and, therefore, of the racial, social, economic, political, and educational dynamics of the related urban and metropolitan region.

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