Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

She won the AERA Early Career Award in 2012 and the Qualitative Research SIG’s 2015 Outstanding Book Award for Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (SAGE, co-edited with D. Winn holds a bachelor’s degree in English from University of California, Davis, as well as a master’s and Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. In the book, Simmons paints a beautiful picture of her mother, Fannie Campbell, who died from kidney disease when Simmons was just 15 years old. Dr. Ruth J. “I’m

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JUNE 5, 2023

Hollis has authored or co-authored 37 peer-reviewed journal articles, seven book chapters, and 17 scholarly essays, as well as published four books.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “In the words of Wilma Rudolph, ‘never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. History at UCLA.

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MAY 8, 2023

Stepping into a scholarship void In graduate school, realizing there were virtually no books on Asian American theater history, she began interviewing Asian American theater artists around the U.S. For her first book, A History of Asian American Theatre (2006), she interviewed over 70 people. It makes us see the humanity in each other.

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Active Minds

JUNE 1, 2023

In the spirit of this celebration, we’re taking a stand against book bans and the attacks on transgender students, reinforcing our unwavering support for the rights of our LGBTQ+ youth and young adults and working to safeguard their mental health in every way we can.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski Since his appointment as dean in 2017, Sniegowski has been responsible for the direction of Penn’s liberal arts undergraduate curricula, programs and students in academic departments and interdisciplinary programs across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

In her new book, Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival, s he dissects and questions the normalization, romanticization, and pathologizing of Black grandmothers’ caring labor. She is currently an associate professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2023

In the prisons where I work, they’re limited to no more than 10 books total,” she said. They’re always having to make these heartbreaking choices about which books they’re going to get [and which] they’re going to give away.” Faculty are also restricted in the number of materials that they can bring into prisons, as well as what type.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Therefore, a system that is built on white supremacy and anti-black racism, at the core, does not have the capacity to honor the brilliance and humanity of Black scholars. Never question your genius, your humanity, your intelligence, your beauty, Never question it.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It’s a history lesson and a humanity lesson, that’s always worth repeating. One of my favorite Black History books is William Gatewood’s, Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire: Letters From Negro Soldiers, 1898-1902. Gatewood’s book has letters written by African American soldiers and published in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For example, counselors can use bibliotherapy (use of books to address academic and mental health issues) to work with Mason and other students. Counselors must ensure that all books and readings are culturally relevant to students in the areas of race, gender, heritage, and community context. Dr. Erik M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

We're sharing our scholarship but we're also sharing little bits of who we are as humans. I think it's important for folks to see the fullness of who we are as humans, that we're not just faculty or researchers writing these books. My work is not my life. I have a full life outside of that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Mayes has excelled as a scholar and researcher to the extent that she has published over 44 peer-reviewed articles and 18 book chapters. Dr. Erik Hines, a professor in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University, and one of Mayes’ mentors, commends her perspective. “Dr. Dr. Renae D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

The initiative offers scholarships up to $10,000 per academic year, books and support for testing, seminars, professional development, and community service hours.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I also work in the area of bioethics and the law, with a special focus on genetics, human reproduction, and mental health. Allen has authored several books throughout her career, including Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide?, “I would say that I work primarily in the area of data protection and privacy law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2023

It is a very tumultuous time with sports,” said Baker, a former college athlete, who said that college athletics remains “one of the most powerful human development programs that we have as a nation. Stevenson, the author of the book Just Mercy that was turned into a movie starring Jamie Foxx and Michael B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

He read every book he could on the species. At OSU, he researches cooperation in vampire bats, asking important questions that reveal answers about not only bat behavior, but human behavior. Reciprocity is the basis of human success, cooperation in the form of ‘I help you, you help me,’” said Carter.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For example, some states have banned books due to race and gender, which can put educators at odds with non-discriminatory policies. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Hines is a professor in the Division of Child, Family, and Community Engagement at George Mason University.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. She has authored and co-authored numerous books, including two bestsellers. Rice is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded 10 honorary doctorates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

One of the goals I’m trying to achieve is to portray our lives outside of the classroom to humanize our experience and to show that many of our contributions actually happen outside of the classroom in the research that we do, in the work that we publish and the work that we do with students,” she says. Lima-Neves has lived in the U.S.

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Cal Newport

MARCH 9, 2023

The open office boom is right up there with the spread of Slack as representing the peak of early 21st century distraction culture — a period in which the knowledge sector completely disregarded any realities about how human brains actually go about the difficult task of creating value through cogitation.

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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. Our attention to racial and ethnic matter is based on Easton-Brooks stellar book Ethnic Matching: Academic Success of Students of Color. and Rosa Parks. A Light in the Attic, Falling Up ).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We diminish ourselves and each other when we have little to no meaningful respect for the preciousness of human life, especially when that life is in service to us all. It is also wrong if we behave similarly in times of crisis in other places or other people.

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AUGUST 6, 2023

We have to name the crimes against humans taking place at the border! He is the author of the forthcoming book, Black Liberation through Action and Resistance: MOVE [November 2023]. This is precisely why I will continue to say, “I told you so!” because we all must collectively be direct about what is taking place in this country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Hughes, dean of the SIUE School of Education, Health, and Human Behavior, who shepherded the cluster hire that included Hall, says she encountered all kinds of opposition. Dr. Robin L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

I am simply reducing the level of my professional engagements and being available for longer and more reflective walks, spending quality time with those I love, and co-editing a book of essays on leadership. Here are six of my columns that elicited particularly strong responses, for which I am grateful.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There was never a safety net,” said fellow Ada Limón , the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States and a renowned poet whose work describes and illustrates the complexities of nature, human experiences, and interpersonal connections. And so, to be honest, the thing that it's given me is this financial security which I've never experienced."

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Tutor Ocean Corp

JANUARY 27, 2023

Brain Facts For Kids Human Body Fact: Here’s a crazy fact about the human body ! Baby Brain Fact: In the first year of life the human brain triples in its size Brain Function Fact: The brain does not multitask. Random Fun Facts For Kids Most Expensive Book: Bill gates bought the world’s most expensive book for $30.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Some parts of history have been suppressed in many states, books banned, curriculum and conversations disappeared, and even research agendas are on hold or downright outlawed and controlled. Research is clear regarding how race and racism impact us all in the United States and beyond. Racial diversity has to be valued.

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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. And that humanized us.”

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Purdue University Global

JUNE 23, 2023

June 21, 2023 was the official first day of summer in the United States, and summer’s return marks a perfect opportunity to share previous book reviews from Purdue Global Academic Success Center staff and English and Rhetoric Department faculty. Why I picked this book? Anyone who loves to read and is still a kid at heart.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s an appropriate topic, particularly in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, Donald Trump’s presidency, attacks on Critical Race Theory, the banning of books, and the recent dismantling of affirmative action by the U.S. Supreme Court. I’m a race guy,” says Howard. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I ts date of 1933 notwithstanding, Woodson’s Miseducation of the Negro book remains timely and timeless. Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Tanya J. Gifted and talented under-referrals and underrepresentation. Dr. Donna Y. Fletcher Jr.,

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JANUARY 11, 2023

“In an era when so many faculty and young scholars are trying to just focus on their scholarship or focus on writing the book, Everrett is that rare individual who can bring it all together.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), founding dean and now president emeritus of the Morehouse School of Medicine, and co-founder of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS). Sullivan, former Secretary of the U.S.

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Patter by Pat Thomson

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This week, and following my own urging to use #AcWriMo to do some regenerative work, see previous post, I’ve gone back to one of my favorite writing books, Joe Moran’s (2019) First you write a sentence. And the book is written beautifully as you’d expect. The elements of reading, writing … and life. Words are there to be spent.

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