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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. In the magazine world, the most important feature is the cover story. We never set out to be an advocacy magazine.

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Game Changers and Change Makers: Black Publishers’ Defiant Mark on History

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It is by no fault of our own that we do not know viable presses such as Black Classic Press, founded by Paul Coates (1978), Third World Press, founded by Haki Madhubuti (1967), Africa World Press/Red Sea Press by African Activist, Kassahun Checole (1983), and Just Us Books by the Hudsons (1988), collectively known as the LEGENDS IN BLACK PUBLISHING.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“It not only contributes to increasing Latine students’ educational and political opportunities, but it also contributes to the advancement of methodological techniques to study contemporary issues of equity in politics. In the current day, threats to the field of education are not few and far between.

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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. Wherever we went, Orlando knew how to engage people’s hearts through his own scholarship and research, from my shy niece to the President of a powerful university. He wrote the foundational text in my speech courses.”

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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. It’s scholarship in a different form.” Gray says he felt pressure to produce another article when a friend came to him and said that the idea was not done because the scholarship was just one leg of the relay.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

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Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” There have been curriculum advances, increased scholarships, growth in undergraduate research and innovations in student life. Jackson has also been an advocate for gender equity. During her 23 years at the helm, more than $1.25

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Thriving and Flourishing While Black and a Student: What can PWIs do?

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However, it is necessary to recognize the fight against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and affirmative action, which continues to dominate and has taken center stage on the educational landscape. A typical example is the institution of scholarships and funds that target Black students. As part of the ongoing battle, Texas Gov.

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