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Why We Can’t Wait: The Early Learning Imperative

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In his 1964 book Why We Cant Wait , Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. For one, it would facilitate parental participation in the workforce. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, we Dr. Marcus Bright need a new push to ensure that our youth dont fall behind at the beginning of their journey to post-secondary education.

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A Scholar’s Fight for Community Power - Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, he founded and facilitates the Culture Counts Reading Series, a bi-weekly poetry reading, writing and discussion workshop featuring works by San Jos poets. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

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A Scholar’s Fight for Community Power - Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, he founded and facilitates the Culture Counts Reading Series, a bi-weekly poetry reading, writing and discussion workshop featuring works by San Jos poets. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. It’s a game changer for many of our students,” she notes.

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Dr. Robin DiAngelo, University of Washington

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She has numerous publications and books,including Is Everybody Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Critical Social Justice Education , co-written with zlem Sensoy, which received both the American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Book Award (2012) and the Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2018).

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Leading From the Intersection

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If you look up the book definition of intersectionality, you can identify the sociological framework suggested by Kimberl Crenshaw in the 1980s that explains how complex power structures of individuals and groups combine, or intersect, in patterns of discrimination and privilege across multiple factors such as gender, race, and class.

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the unanticipated: reflecting & looking forward

Catherine Cronin

In that same month, Laura Czerniewicz and I published a call for chapters for a new book, an idea we had been slow-cooking for about six months (that book, Higher Education for Good , was published in October 2023). This drew on GTM and team members’ expertise as well as principles of data feminism (DIgnazio & Klein, 2020 ).