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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2018, Gray and his colleagues won the Best Article Award for a publication in Educational Psychologist, titled “Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures.” His friend advised him to show people what “Black and belonging” looked like.

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Collaborators will have to agree to publish digitally using Creative Commons licenses; use only the publishing platforms and resources provided by UVM Press; forgo processing charges, subscription fees, and membership requirements; engage in peer review; and maintain a rolling publication schedule for journal articles.

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Spotlighting Rural Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Means Title: Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh Age: 39 Education: B.A., counselor education (student affairs), Clemson University; and Ph.D., sociology and political science, Elon University; M.Ed., Be open to change and new directions as a teacher, scholar, advisor, and mentor.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

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Jackson (left) meets with scholars and students in the Michigan State University Master of Arts in Educational Technology program at Erickson Hall. She recalls appearing on a panel with him at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and following his research in the years following. Dr. Jerlando F.

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From Research and Theory Into Practice: hooks’ Homeplace Matters in the Educational Lives of Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In this special issue of Theory Into Practice , co-edited by Mayes (the first author herein), Kearl, and Ieva, the authors explain the need for homeplace and how it can improve the educational outcome and well-being of Black students. This article details two ways hip hop and YPAR were combined to develop homeplaces. Lawson, T.

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Your ‘Nowhere’ is my ‘Somewhere’

Supporting Student Success

For a thorough description of the 4Rs, please read the excellent piece by Kirkness & Barnhardt (1991) 2 and more contemporary articles by Pidgeon (2014) 3 and Wimmer (2016) 4. Do you know of other conferences, books, articles, people to follow on Twitter who focus on rural education issues? Please leave a comment.