Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Since 2013, she has been ranked in the top 20 of Education Weeks Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings of the 200 University-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about schools and schooling, and in the top 5 voices in Curriculum.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Blacks did not leave the education professions after Brown, the professions were taken from us purposely,” said Fenwick, who chronicled the history in her award-winning book Jim Crow’s Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership. Board of Education ruling. cities including Denver and New Orleans. “I

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

Divisiveness was branded onto curriculum that taught the history of race, gender, and empire. But now, it too has been weaponizedserving as both scapegoat and branding tool for more than 800 anti-CRT and anti-DEI bills that ban books, censor curriculum, and restrict the teaching of historical fact.

Compliance

COE

MAY 2, 2025

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Education

COE

JULY 9, 2025

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

She packed extra snacks and a couple of picture books, and while the students were engaged in the lesson she helped the little boy take pictures of his Captain America doll next to his mommy, the college student. Her education was at risk, and as an experienced teacher, Sara knew that welcoming a three-year-old to class wasnt difficult.

Education

COE

JULY 24, 2025

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

First generation

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

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First generation

COE

JUNE 11, 2025

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

From All-Black School to National Medal of Science: A Journey of Mathematical Discovery The hundreds of books that line the shelves behind Gates desk only support that claim. Gates co-authored one of the books: Superspace, or One Thousand and one Lessons in Supersymmetry. The topics range from calculus to cosmology.

Mathematics

COE

JULY 8, 2025

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First generation

COE

JULY 10, 2025

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Education

COE

JULY 15, 2025

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First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Today, many state leaders have increasingly advocated for the banning of African American studies and have proposed curriculum changes that downplay the significance of slavery in the U.S.,” In the face of curriculum and book bans and the devaluing of Black history, it is imperative to amplify and uphold African American history.”

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

The books architecture is carefully constructed around ten interconnected themes, each building upon Dr. W.E.B. He methodically unpacks how this manifests in various aspects of institutional life, from leadership and curriculum to campus culture and financial sustainability. Du Boiss foundational writings on Black education.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

The campaign said that book bans targeting Black and LGBTQ+ authors and efforts to sanitize and suppress curriculum are tools of a larger effort to erase the history of segregation and white supremacy with the intent of re-configuring democratic institutions in a way that undermines equity.

Humanities

Active Minds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For those searching for a way to unite people of all different backgrounds through inspiring storytelling … consider booking an Active Minds Speaker for your next school or community event! The curriculum contains thirteen discussion guides rooted in mental health literacy and social-emotional development.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As debates over how students should learn about race heat up and K-12 schools ban more and more books, it’s an increasingly urgent concern. If I’m a Black child, and I read about myself in a book, I need to read that I have agency over my life just like when I read about a white character.” Any censorship of any kind is bad,” she said.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These positions wield significant influence over local education budgets, curriculum decisions, and the hiring and firing of school leaders. In the upcoming 2024 election , more than 20,000 school board seats will be up for grabs, coinciding with the presidential race.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. DeCuir-Gunby has published four books, including Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Motivation in Education [Routledge, 2016] and Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies [Routledge, 2019]. Dr. Jessica T. I look forward to helping continue this legacy.”

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2024

F2L — a group of educators, artists, advocates, and policy makers opposing the book bans and attacks on educational curriculum — wants everyone to resist anti-DEI movements on that day and be loud about what they do, whether that’s reading banned-book author Toni Morrison or engage in a more active demonstration.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

She and other scholars underlined the critical importance of HBCUs and an inclusive, expansive history curriculum being taught to students K-12 and beyond. Dunbar shared her stories with the gathered crowd on the final day of the College Board’s "A Dream Deferred: a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Conference."

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2024

Topics and people that they want their children to learn about are not taught in the curriculum (e.g., content, books events, topics, issues). I have written extensively about cultureblind curriculum and its myriad of problems. Family engagement efforts often take on an assimilation function.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2024

A few days ago, I went to my office to get one of my students a book of great interest. Multicultural curriculum and instruction enhance racial and ethnic pride, along with relationships among students from different backgrounds. In searching the shelves, I came across Dr. James A. Banks’ An Introduction to Multicultural Education.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In his seminal book, Ebony and Ivy , Craig Wilder offers a compelling narrative on the hand-in-glove relationship between white supremacy and the initial development of the American academy.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

She often played music by Bob Marley, and we read poetry books by Shel Silverstein (i.e., I responded to the challenge and read the book. In this same spirit, we interrogate measures, theories, and curriculum to expose “cultureblindness” and cultural assaultiveness. and Rosa Parks. A Light in the Attic, Falling Up ).

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Finally, faculty from both sectors can collaborate on curriculum development to ensure that DEI principles are integrated into the learning experience from day one. Second, they can share resources for DEI initiatives, pooling knowledge, and expertise to create a cohesive approach across higher education.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Traci Morris, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, has worked with Native American tribes, tribal businesses as well as artists and non-profits; she has also written a college-accredited curriculum in Native American new media and has advocated for digital inclusion on Capitol Hill and before the Federal Communications Commission.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

People sat outside on blankets, chatting or reading books. In each school my white peers saw themselves reflected in the curriculum, their history was presented every day within the classroom and in the library, administrative offices, and even in the halls of the school. Louis, Missouri. The buildings were regal. The work of both Ms.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Regardless of an instructor's talent or the allure of a dynamic curriculum, success hinges not solely on external factors, but also on the learner's mindset. If one does not believe that they will be successful in a math class, then they can be defeated before they even begin.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. This negative indoctrination starts early, as demonstration in a children’s book.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

She and other Black women faculty members recently published an edited book, Black Sisterhoods: Paradigms and Praxis, in which the authors explore notions of Sisterhood among Black women as a noun and a verb. “I I am still doing my research.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

They understand the impact of systems on underrepresented groups and ensure diverse viewpoints are encouraged, acknowledged, and respected.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2023

They began talking, and Freeman’s wife recommended that Scott read The Quest , a book that Freeman had written about his own emotional and spiritual journey, by way of a cross-country motorcycle trip with his twelve-year-old son that led to an encounter with a Native American shaman and a transformative vision quest.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Through the college’s Student Equity and Achievement Program, Alvarez oversaw Otero’s redesign of classrooms, curriculum and teaching practices to make learning more inviting and inclusive. His sense of curiosity drives his staff crazy, he said, because he’s always reading articles and books that he shares with them.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The campus movement helped open the space for Black studies, and Black studies as a discipline in return would provide the curriculum that looks at the African American perspective. I taught Quest course (part of UF’s general education curriculum) with 66 students and a TA (teaching assistant); I never had a TA in my life,” Canton says. “I

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Editors of top-tier journals couldn’t comprehend why she chose to focus on Black women instead of Black people generally, and if she wanted to talk about Black women and girls in the courses that she taught, she had to figure out how to slip the material into the pre-designed curriculum. The experience was isolating.

Faculty