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“While American women have advanced in the last 175 years, we haven’t come close to achieving equity,” said Laura Rebell-Gross, senior managing director of Girls’ Education with the Student Leadership Network, a nonprofit organization working for educational equity. We’re living inside someone else’s imagination.”

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Thus, decisions must be informed by a critical understanding of funding sources, an awareness of the fiscal exigencies, and a fearless commitment to the institutional mission. Thus, equity is the watchwordand not for the sake of achieving institutional metrics that we can hail in state reports and educational publications.

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JULY 5, 2023

As she continues to work on her dissertation it will inform and guide the vision and practice of spoken word poetry in the nursing and healthcare education context. She added that Jamal-Eddine may face resistance because nursing faculty don’t like hearing they practice and perpetuate ableism.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

With the demise of affirmative action, threats to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI), and policies in higher education there might not be an immediate increase in the number of Black men seeking to enroll in higher education.

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JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. You're creating an archive, you're creating information,” said McKinney. It will also open pathways for community collaborations and city growth.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Martin argues for change in food pantries writ large, moving beyond a focus on food distribution with new models that center empathy, equity, and systems reform. In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries , Dr. Katie S. Take the Basic Needs Hubs at Portland Community College, which show the power of embracing a mutual aid framework.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Going forward, he anticipates leveraging data and research to inform policy-making about schools and support families from marginalized backgrounds. As an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, Reid was a McNair Scholar. During that time, he did research on income segregation, which motivated him toward his current focus.

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JULY 23, 2023

Sabrina Jamal-Eddine During her Bachelor of Science in Nursing studies, Sabrina Jamal-Eddine informed a clinical instructor about her back disability and lifting limitation as well as explaining that she could do everything but except lift a patient.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Widespread digital access and skills may also represent human capital capacity and community, because it provides access to information for education and job searches, skills for jobs and entrepreneurship, richer information networks and communities.” “It’s important for economic development as well as individual opportunities.

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JULY 12, 2024

I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. Far too many opposers are misguided and ill-informed.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Ford, a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University, says she is impressed by Leyva’s scholarly productivity, noting that his research addresses important gaps in STEM educational research and literature. Dr. Donna Y. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students.

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JUNE 25, 2025

The incident spread rapidly, picked up by conservative media outlets as another example of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) gone wrong in the classroom. It’s a deeply human endeavor: expressive, subjective, unpredictable, and relational. So how do we keep teaching as art, informed by science?

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Danielle Lopez has been appointed the inaugural director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for Accessibility Services at Hudson County Community College (HCCC). I am very happy to be a part of Hudson County Community College, where diversity, equity, and inclusion is valued and lived,” said Lopez. “I

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APRIL 16, 2024

These organizations provide membership and community for qualitative and quantitative researchers, and WIM focuses on improving gender and racial equity within the field. The report also studied how diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and anti-discrimination is perceived in the workplace. Dr. Susan Lyons, executive director of WIM.

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His lived experience has shaped his commitment to mental health equity and systemic change. a nonprofit supporting young mothers and women aged 13 to 20, and is dedicated to advancing health equity and addressing systemic disparities in underserved communities. She is the founder of Angels Protection Inc.,

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

She stood up to the principal and affirmed my humanity. She let me know, ‘You are a full human being, and they’re going to have to recognize you.’” Rema,” says she has learned from her own experiences to defend our collective humanity. “My mother recognized the violence I experienced that day,” recalls Vassar.

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His lived experience has shaped his commitment to mental health equity and systemic change. a nonprofit supporting young mothers and women aged 13 to 20, and is dedicated to advancing health equity and addressing systemic disparities in underserved communities. She is the founder of Angels Protection Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Shayne Halls Halls, president and CEO of Manifested Dreams , a company that connects organizations to AI services, spoke about the various ways AI can improve tasks and projects previously assigned to humans, removing human biases and time-intensive processes along the way. “AI Everyone does not retain information in the same manner.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Further, school counselors must be trained in using an equity-based lens to help students of color explore various career options and postsecondary opportunities in preparation to enter a global, diverse, and technological workforce. Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Tanya J.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Harvey To be more specific, the Eurocentric framework that serves as the foundation of academic engagement for almost the entire American scholarly community deprives students of knowledge and information about the contributions and achievements of nonwhite people throughout the world, and particularly here in the United States.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These future collegiate athletes, and their families, will be informed in no uncertain terms that the institutions represented by the coaches offer welcoming and supportive environments to facilitate their development and meet their needs. For these young men, this is their time, and they are ready. Dr. William B.

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JULY 14, 2023

Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors. If we have computers that can operate certain aspects of the higher education environment, then we can re-prioritize what humans do. Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

A substantial challenge facing colleges as they seek to achieve this equitable improvement is to identify high-impact strategies through which they can apply their limited human and financial resources, time, and change capacity. Dr. Robert.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Dr. Sarita Cargas, associate professor of human rights at the University of New Mexico Honors College. They talked about having headaches and trouble staying awake in class, feeling anxious that other people would hear their tummies grumbling,” said Cargas, an associate professor of human rights at the UNM Honors College.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Addressing the need Queensborough Community College (QCC), a two-year institution in the City University of New York system, conducted an equity audit that showed there were retention and graduation disparities for male students overall, with Black and Latinx male students disproportionately impacted. Dr. Roderick L.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Jamie Washington Washington connects all these responsibilities and commitments with a very simple but unifying approach: find the humanity inside everyone. “I I try to spend my days choosing love, choosing hope, choosing patience, and choosing humanity,” says Washington, adding that by doing so, he is “honoring the power of choice.”

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We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Committee members often arrive unprepared. The tenure process is a social and political process.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Going forward, he anticipates leveraging data and research to inform policy-making about schools and support families from marginalized backgrounds. As an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, Reid was a McNair Scholar. During that time, he did research on income segregation, which motivated him toward his current focus.

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JUNE 15, 2023

The report is based on data from a survey of nearly 900 US colleges and institutions, who provided information on more than 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members. Givan noted that data on these faculty remains spotty: under 40% of the responding institutions submitted complete information on part-time faculty paid per course.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Collaboration among various departments, including academic affairs, student affairs, and equity and diversity offices, ensures a comprehensive approach to student and administrator support. Data-Informed Interventions: Equipping administrators with data on student outcomes (e.g.,

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JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Institutions submit information about their cultural competence programming to CPE. Data, he says, is crucial to informing his and the CPE’s position.

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MARCH 11, 2024

Humans are no different. It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests. Take care with formal and informal advice-giving and mentoring.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Based on this, Assumption will then send out an offer of aid, as early as October, guaranteed so long as the information on the form is accurate. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could get to an [award] range we were comfortable with without a ton of information,” he said. Dr. Gregory S.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

This process includes the board of trustees, senior administrators, department heads, faculty members, and human resources professionals. Administrative leadership: Identifying individuals with leadership potential for administrative roles, such as finance, human resources, information technology, and student affairs.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. A common component of accountability is an increased reliance on data to inform decision-making.

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

Equally, and perhaps less obvious, the closer we get to the goal of achieving equity for ourselves as neurodivergent individuals, I feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Nichelle N.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After the lengthy test, she informed me that my son scored above average but was ‘socially incompetent’ because he was unfamiliar with items such as a sofa (he said couch) and an outlet (which he called a plug). My personal experiences continue to inform me professionally. Dr. Tanya J.

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