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Federal Court Blocks Education Department's Diversity Directive, Marking Victory for Academic Freedom Advocates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The court determined the directive potentially contradicts established legal protections for academic freedom and may violate constitutional rights by imposing vague restrictions on curriculum and programming.

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How Maricopa Community Colleges are Leading with Workforce-aligned Bachelor’s Degrees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By focusing on employer needs, we have launched eight bachelors degrees in crucial areas including nursing, education, information technology, and public safety administration. In an effort to fill critical openings, some schools have reduced the criteria needed to teach, including the requirement of a traditional teaching bachelors degree.

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Demotion of USC Administrator Leads to Accusations of Racism

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

USC declined to make administrators available for interviews with Diverse. So you have to be able to look at pedagogy, you have to be able to look at curriculum. What are we teaching? How are we teaching it? Who’s teaching it?” “I really think that she’s so powerful that they felt threatened,” she said. “Dr.

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Why We Must Teach African American Studies: A Call to Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The governor has even promoted the idea that teaching about anti-Black racism in U.S. We believe that higher education faculty and administrators play an integral role in combating the faulty assumptions, racist ideas and harmful policies put forth by white nationalists. This must be challenged.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice. It's likely a matter of cognitive science!

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Museum Studies Program Seeks to Diversify the Field

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For the past three years, it’s been teaching others to do the same, seeking to expand what the face of museum studies looks like. And the diversity that New-York Historical wants to foster and accommodate goes beyond race, Paley said, which is reflected in the course curriculum.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our American Indian students can still learn about their history, their language, their culture by the curriculum that we offer, and non-Native students can learn about American Indian people. That they have folks that look like them teaching at those four-year universities. We’ve got that unique Native and non-Native environment.”