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UPitt Dean Works to Advance Equity in Policy, Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To advance equitable policies that are grounded in education is to understand the full humanity of people,” she said. “It In that time, Kinloch said she has strived to bolster equity and justice at the school. If we can get this work done right, through humanizing collective frameworks that just see the beauty in human beings.

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Aesthete Explores Equity in Disability Studies, Healthcare Education

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Jamal-Eddine said she envisions spoken word poetry becoming one of several tools of humanizing critical narratives that challenge and disrupt harmful hegemonic ideologies within nursing education. “I

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In Equity Efforts, Where Does Title IX Truly Stand?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are certainly cultural and societal issues at play as we look at gender equity in sports,” says Axelson. People are trying to understand the human aspect.” Other motivations, both for individuals and institutions, include wanting to avoid negative publicity and desiring to provide equitable opportunities.

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Dr. Orlando Taylor: A Person to Emulate

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He took me there to meet his long-time colleague and co-founder of the magazine, Dr. Bill Cox. He honored human beings. The Marie Fielder Center encourages research that addresses today’s educational and social problems through transformational change, equity, education, and justice.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

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In 2021, she was starting research in environmental humanities — a growing area of student interest — which got derailed by a major life event, the death of her partner of more than two decades, Dr. Christina Crosby, a professor at Wesleyan University. Jakobsen stands with students and other faculty at a BCRW event.

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Unity in Action: Advancing Social and Ecological Justice through Diverse Perspectives

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Allison Davis-White Eyes More than anything, these professional paths — one focused on DEI and the other on the natural environment — address the significance and centrality of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in advancing social and ecological justice by holding a broad view of planetary justice. Dr. Katrina S.

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You Are Enough

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I love the work that I get to do in diversity, equity, and inclusion, but at times it can be exhausting. We need to see the humanity in each other. 19, 2023, edition of Diverse magazine. This work was here before me, and this work will be here after I am gone. I will not let it break me.