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APRIL 9, 2025

In her timely and important book Beyond Implicit and Explicit Bias: Strategies for Healing the Root Causes of Inequity in Education , Dr. ClauDean ChiNaka Kizart offers a comprehensive roadmap for educators committed to creating more equitable learning environments. The books greatest strength lies in its practicality.

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The book “complicates our understanding of right-wing backlash as populist, since the narrators within were college students at a time when higher education was inaccessible to most,” writes Shepherd. It challenges assumptions of conservative backlash as grassroots by exploring the students’ impressive financial support.”

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. After looking into and providing a solution to assist the student, Weatherspoon wanted to know what more the institution could do.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

As an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California, the Reverend Dr. Joseph Cheah said that he would spend hours at the bookstore, reading about Asian American studies. I would just stand there for hours, reading one book after another in Asian American studies. “I I was fascinated by that."

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AUGUST 15, 2024

The ACLU of Florida has responded to allegations that the New College of Florida discreetly dumped hundreds of library books in a landfill. FS 273.055 ) “The dumping of these books is more than just the disposal of outdated materials,” said Jackson. Jackson urged citizens, educators, and students to speak out against the act.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

A unique aspect of the program pairs each fellow with a Howard student, creating mentorship opportunities while advancing research goals. Howard's Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Dr. His work has significantly shaped contemporary discussions about racism, with his book How to Be an Antiracist achieving international bestseller status.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

Free expression organization PEN America is suing Florida’s Escambia County School District and School Board, alleging that the district’s recent book bans areunconstitutional. Joining PEN are authors, parents, and the largest book publisher in the country: Penguin Random House.

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JUNE 17, 2024

The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education: Firsthand Experiences and Global Impact is an excellent book that answers the question, what does it take to succeed as a Black professional in higher education leadership? The main strength of The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education lies in its format as an edited book.

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MAY 2, 2025

For me, one of the most rewarding parts of being aprofessor is when a student tells me that a text I assignedreally resonated with them and made them feelseen for the first time, she says. This work has culminated in Trans forthcoming book, Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of U.S. empireas a key organizing rubric for the project.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2025

I argue in my book Capitalizing on College that the way forward for these value entrepreneurs must include recognizing they are not alone and that their similarities are greater than their differences. The president of one tuition-driven school spoke for many when he said that relationships are at the center of everything they did.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Her forthcoming book Greatest Good: Nashvilles Black Colleges, Their Students, and the Fight for Freedom, Justice, and Equality is under contract with Vanderbilt University Press.

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JUNE 11, 2025

Jamal Watson's forthcoming book, The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency received a starred review in Library Journal , the trade journal of librarians and booksellers! Read the full review: [link]. Preorder your copy today: [link].

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MARCH 6, 2025

Her mentorship programs, online communities, and books offer essential resources while her multiple-award-winning film, Becoming Black Lawyers has amplified the Black American law student experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

After attending Murray State University in Kentucky, Bumphus began his career in higher education as a director of residence halls at his alma mater, where he discovered his passion for student development. At just 24, he became a dean of students, followed by a vice president position at 29, and a college presidency before turning 40.

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JANUARY 26, 2025

He has co-authored seven books and more than 160 publications, secured nearly $40 million in funding, and delivered more than 200 scholarly presentations globally. His work on diversifying the STEM fields has won him international accolades. His research spans multiple disciplines, including school counseling, urban education, and STEM.

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AUGUST 18, 2024

Students may now have a living map for navigating college in the era of artificial intelligence, according to a new guide release by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and Elon University. Dr. Connie Book Dr. C.

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MARCH 5, 2025

Her area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, tracing how whiteness is reproduced in everyday narratives.She is a two-time winner of the Students Choice Award for Educator of the Year at the University of Washingtons School of Social Work.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. Dr. Brittany Williams, an assistant professor of higher education and student affairs administration at the University of Vermont (UVM), always had a knack for Dr. Brittany Williams learning.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Attendees from across the country and even across the Atlantic tuned in as Lowery-Hart shared how leading with love transforms community colleges and institutions of higher education into places where students, and the whole community, thrive. “[Dr. The perfect college for our students is defined by care and help.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Tired of simply gathering at conferences to rehash the same problems, Lewis had a vision that he wanted to spearhead a solutions-oriented convening that allowed individuals to put theory into practice, in an effort to yield positive outcomes for students attending schools in urban school districts. That vision quickly gained traction. “Too

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Beyond the countless Pow Wows we attended over the years, Mom insisted we read books on our culture, and even (without much success) attempted to teach us some of our tribal language. The work of eradicating achievement gaps for Black and American Indian students is personalized in a way that is perhaps different for others.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Senators Patty Murray of Washington and Susan Collins of Maine expressed outrage over reports that New College of Florida discarded hundreds of books, including a book about their leadership in the Senate. We stand against the senseless banning of books.

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MARCH 20, 2024

The University of Houston is providing all undergraduate students with the books they need for a flat fee through the Cougar Textbook Access Program (CTAP). CTAP ensures our students don’t have to wait for their books. We want to make sure all students start ready to learn.” Bauer College of Business.

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APRIL 18, 2025

But as Robin Diangelo and zlem Sensoy remind us in their book Is Everyone Really Equal? Helping students develop critical thinking skills, media literacy, and historical context are central to my practice. Doing so would be a disservice to me, to the students, and to the integrity of education itself. I welcome real dialogue.

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MAY 23, 2025

In that position, he oversaw more than 120 staff members and managed a multi-million-dollar budget for the 30,000-student institution. A scholar specializing in African American history, Black nationalism, and the Black freedom struggle, Gipson is currently writing a book about the Black Freedom Struggle in Arkansas. He holds a Ph.D.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

For Dr. Lauren Christine Mims, few challenges are more important in public education than creating spaces for Black students to flourish and thrive. Colleagues and students hail Mims for shifting the focus away from viewing Black students, parents, and families through a deficit lens. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

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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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Jamie Merisotis That progress tends to get lost, however, amid legitimate concerns about the cost of education and its efficacy in preparing students for jobs. In those and countless other areas, solutions are being incubated right now on America’s college campuses. We get it: Higher education must do better.

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JULY 29, 2024

Department of Education All students deserve access to learning environments that are inclusive and free from discrimination and that nurture their intellect, wellbeing, and creativity, preparing them for success in school and beyond.

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JANUARY 12, 2025

where I had the privilege to pay it forward with my students and advance equity and social justice through my research. It was incredible to see my students transforming into leaders, yet it all came to an abrupt and devastating stop when Texas Senate Bill 17 shut us down. I believed the next job might fill the gap.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

Im very blessed to be able to work with artists and activists and to think about how to utilize the things they teach me to create a classroom environment where I respect the knowledge and traditions our students bring in, Gomez says. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

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MARCH 6, 2025

At the University of Maryland, College Park she created sustainable inclusive excellence initiatives that have served students on that campus for over 20 years. Jenkins is considered a national expert on inclusive leadership having published seven books on the topic. Her work has also taken her to over 35 countries.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. Specifically, whether intentional or unintentional, harm has been done to students/learners. Combined and individually, curriculum and/or instruction can traumatize students, in this case Black students.

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JUNE 4, 2025

Moreover, research shows that young children particularly Black and Latino students demonstrate better learning and problem-solving skills when taught by teachers who share their racial or ethnic background. Instead, its grounded in meeting educators where they are literally and figuratively.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

The evolution of how end-users obtain and utilize information spurred a new movement in education that LeiLani Cauthen described in her 2017 book, The Consumerization of Learning. Powered by Gecko, this technology has effectively increased our ability to answer prospective and current student questions 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

Im very blessed to be able to work with artists and activists and to think about how to utilize the things they teach me to create a classroom environment where I respect the knowledge and traditions our students bring in, Gomez says. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses.

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