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Making Math More Equitable

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I love seeing my feed blow up w/ the news that numerous research proposals adopting critical & intersectional approaches to advancing justice in math & STEM higher ed were accepted as presentations during the 2024 @AERA_EdResearch Annual Mtg in Philadelphia. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students.

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Rutgers University Union Members Vote to Ratify Tentative Agreements

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

About 93% of Rutgers University educators, researchers, and clinicians have voted to ratify tentative agreements reached by their bargaining committees, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The contracts also include clauses for an improved appeals process for pay equity. raise over the contract.

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

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Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. At Black and Belonging, Gray co-constructs initiatives with students that show the world how to affirm them and show their teachers how to teach them. It’s scholarship in a different form.”

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A Race Scholar

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Lewis, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education and the executive director of The Urban Education Collaborative at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “He That’s where he learned how to perfect his teaching. So, I was like, ‘whose doing this research? Geneva Gay and James A.

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Reconciling Contrasting Findings on Perceptions of Higher Ed

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Experts on American perceptions of higher education said that the polls collectively reveal that American views are nuanced. Zach Hrynowski, an education research consultant at Gallup, thought that Americans were differentiating between higher education itself and the systems that organize it.

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Pride in the Halls

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The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. He is the director of the PRISM (Power, Resistance & Identity in STEM Education) research lab.

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Scholar Looks to Ease the Burden of Racial Opportunity Costs

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As Chambers refined the theor y and published paper after paper about students who suffered in some of the same ways that she had , she climb ed higher in academia than she would have ever imagined, becoming a full professor and associate dean for equity and inclusion at Michigan State University. She teaches at Carleton every summer.

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