Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

I identify as a gay Black man, a practicing Catholic, and a multilingual leader with a doctorate in education and an emphasis in curriculum and teaching. I am a parent as well as a poet, writer, and storyteller, and Ive served as an artist in the schools where Ive taught.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2025

We demonstrated to the country that we’re thinking about the highest form of undergraduate education in a way that is inclusive of everyone,” says Jordan in an interview with Diverse. We did not at any point water down our standards and the rigor of the curriculum,” says Jordan. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The needs of freshmen are also carefully considered, with INSPIRE (Incoming Student Program for Inclusion, Retention and Excellence) as well as student support programs like EOP (Educational Opportunity Program) and EXCEL, which create strong networks of support.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Adjust Strategies: Use data to adjust financial aid strategies to meet the evolving needs of families and to promote diversity and inclusion. Culturally Responsive Curriculum: Develop a curriculum that reflects the diversity of students and promotes understanding and appreciation of different cultures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2025

Solutions for equity and emotional wellness To foster inclusive and resilient training environments, counseling programs and clinical sites must take intentional steps: • Curriculum Reform: Integrate racial trauma, identity development, and systemic oppression into core coursework — not just isolated diversity lectures.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Hidden curriculum: This refers to institutional jargon, unspoken rules, and processes that are intimidating to first-generation students. Demystify the “hidden curriculum” Creating workshops and first-year seminars to intentionally unpack institutional jargon and norms is indispensable, especially for first-generation students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2025

Shaun Harper In a powerful defense of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education, Dr. Shaun Harper, Provost Professor of Education, Public Policy, and Business at the University of Southern California, presented evidence-based testimony before the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

These demands reportedly extend far beyond addressing antisemitism, including new speech restrictions, elimination of all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and mandatory cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Universities such as Harvard , Rutgers , Northeastern , the University of Texas , and Louisiana State University are scrubbing their website of all references to diversity, equity, and inclusion, shuttering DEI offices and laying off staff, and scrutinizing the curriculum for any references to DEI. This moment calls for good trouble.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2025

Following instructions from the community’s elders, Umoja’s director of curriculum and instruction, dressed in a white dress with matching heels, stood behind the podium and addressed the room. After two days of meetings, presentations, and social activities, the closing white ceremony sealed the conference’s theme of liberatory education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Garcia advises HSI leaders to take a holistic and multi-dimensional perspective on servingness and to ensure indicators of servingness are reflected in institutional structures such as their mission and purpose, leadership practices, polices, curriculum, co-curricular offerings, and advancement activities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

It instructed the University to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under whatever name, and to cease any admissions or hiring practices that consider race, gender, or even proxies for race. Divisiveness was branded onto curriculum that taught the history of race, gender, and empire.

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COE

MAY 2, 2025

Hamm Click to view the page: The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5 Million Jurassic World Rule Your Future STEAM Initiative Press Releases The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5

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COE

JULY 9, 2025

Mitchem Click to view the page: Why Trump’s Budget Proposal Betrays a Generation of Low-Income College Students Blog Why Trump’s Budget Proposal Betrays a Generation of Low-Income College Students by Alejandra Campoverdi and Aaron Brown, Ph.D.

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COE

JULY 24, 2025

Mitchem Click to view the page: Why Trump’s Budget Proposal Betrays a Generation of Low-Income College Students Blog Why Trump’s Budget Proposal Betrays a Generation of Low-Income College Students by Alejandra Campoverdi and Aaron Brown, Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2025

President Donald Trumps efforts to dismantle higher education diversity, equity and inclusion programs are having ripple effects in Virginia, a state with divided government leadership. which praised the universitys diversity and inclusion efforts. Opposing arguments also have come from student voices.

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COE

JUNE 3, 2025

Hamm Click to view the page: The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5 Million Jurassic World Rule Your Future STEAM Initiative Press Releases The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5

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COE

JUNE 11, 2025

More News & Impact Click to view the page: Why Trump’s Budget Proposal Betrays a Generation of Low-Income College Students Blog Why Trump’s Budget Proposal Betrays a Generation of Low-Income College Students by Alejandra Campoverdi and Aaron Brown, Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

However, what the newly released House Antisemitism Staff Report demonstrates is that is not the path on which they are being led. fact, DEI programs not only do not categorically create a hostile environment on the basis of race, they often have the opposite impact by serving as a remedial measure to discriminatory acts.

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COE

JULY 8, 2025

Hamm Click to view the page: The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5 Million “Jurassic World Rule Your Future STEAM Initiative” Press Releases The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5

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COE

JULY 10, 2025

Hamm Click to view the page: The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5 Million “Jurassic World Rule Your Future STEAM Initiative” Press Releases The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5

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COE

JULY 15, 2025

Hamm Click to view the page: The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5 Million “Jurassic World Rule Your Future STEAM Initiative” Press Releases The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Academic women leaders have increasingly assumed leadership roles that shape policies, curriculum development, and institutional culture. By prioritizing inclusivity and representation, these women are transforming cultural spaces into platforms for dialogue and understanding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A dozen higher education institutions have been selected to participate in the Equitable and Inclusive Curriculum-to-Career Models Project, according to the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Furman University and 14 other institutions have collectively been awarded $8.625 million to improve inclusion for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This project will transform the student experience in STEM at Furman,” said Dr. Alison Roark, associate professor of biology and program director.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Janel George The panel – part of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s larger National Racial Equity Initiative for Social Justice (NREI) Summit – brought together experts to discuss contemporary attacks against the inclusion of Black history in societal awareness and education. the NREI website stated. the NREI website stated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And the diversity that New-York Historical wants to foster and accommodate goes beyond race, Paley said, which is reflected in the course curriculum. Such inclusions are part of the program’s more holistic approach to museum studies, Paley said. “

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2024

As diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have come under attack, I wonder if higher education leaders shouldn’t begin to evolve the concept before policymakers strip away every tool we have to provide supports for students of color. Instead of focusing on inclusion, perhaps we should be talking about integration.

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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. However, their approach does not align with the broader vision of equity advocates striving to create an inclusive educational system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The award applauds promising and innovative proposals to improve student success and degree completion at master’s and doctoral levels while promoting inclusiveness, with the winner receiving a two-year, $20,000 matching grant. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Felicia Benton-Johnson Felicia Benton-Johnson has been appointed vice president for diversity and inclusive excellence at Clemson University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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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."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Florida state colleges and universities must report spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and projects and initiatives related to critical race theory (CRT), per orders from Florida Gov. State law requires dutiful attention to curriculum content at our higher education systems.”. Ron DeSantis In a Dec.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

This grant propels us to build a more inclusive curriculum, a broader research agenda, and deeper impact on our community by dramatically increasing the number of faculty members whose work centers the Black experience.” Roy Wilson, President of Wayne State. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We use languages that are not inclusive. We have to figure out a way to educate university folks to be more inclusive,” said Hall, citing training tools like undocumented ally training. Faculty can also bring the work and stories of undocumented immigrants into their curriculum. They don’t feel like they belong,” said Hall. “If

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