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Resistance Strategies for Black Graduate Students in Higher Education

Being a Black woman at a predominantly White institution (PWI), I experience simultaneously racialized and gendered encounters that leave me feeling anxious and incensed. The social justice spaces that I found in graduate school help me to navigate challenging experiences and to speak truth to power. I share this brief composition as a testament to the strategies of resistance that my peers, colleagues, faculty and I use to persist in higher education.

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Experts: Collaboration Needed to Diversify Tech Workforce

America’s tech industry needs greater diversity, equity and inclusion, and achieving those goals depends in large part on the ability of educational institutions, governments, and philanthropies to work collaboratively and consistently.

Lauded Special Olympics Program To Continue with Federal Funding

Unified Champion Schools, a Special Olympics educational program that has been saved from the federal fiscal chopping block, is known as an initiative whose benefits extend beyond the intellectually disabled.

Women’s History Month Special: Changing Our Approach To ‘The Change’

Coincidentally, at the beginning of March and Women’s History Month, I started going through something that billions of women over the hundreds of years of history have been through. Of course, given the long history, I knew it would happen to me eventually, but, when it did, what surprised me was that I felt so unprepared and ill-informed.

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Native, Black, Latino Students Most Likely to Pay for College Themselves

Nearly three in 10 college students in America are responsible for paying for all of their costs of higher education themselves, and that number is highest by far among Native American, Black and Hispanic/Latino college students, according to a study by LendEDU.

Women’s Basketball Continues to Outpace Men’s Academically

Women’s basketball players still outperform their male counterparts, but there is still room for improvement, according to a new report.

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Scholar Builds New Department at Columbia University

Dr. Farah Griffin, is wearing two hats as the inaugural chair of Columbia’s new African-American and African Diaspora Studies Department and director-elect of Columbia’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies.

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New Book Challenges Bad Stats

If you’re in the habit of spewing negative statistics about the education of Black students in the United States, expect to draw the ire of Dr. Ivory A. Toldson.

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Summit Empowers Black and Latino Men in College

Now in its 13th year, the annual Black, Brown & College Bound Summit has become one of the nation’s most recognized convenings focused on improving outcomes for young Black and Latino men in college.

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Panel: Marginalized Groups Need Diversity Officers

Diversity officers should help cultivate a campus climate where coalitions are built to benefit underserved student populations and where the historical trauma experienced by various minority groups is addressed. That’s what experts said during a plenary panel discussion Friday at the 13th annual conference of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education.

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HBCU Leaders, Industry Partners Meet on Capitol Hill for HBCU STEAM Day of Action

Collective advocacy for greater resources and support for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and their students was the goal of this year’s HBCU STEAM Day of Action on Capitol Hill, a day hosted by the Congressional Bipartisan HBCU Caucus that brought together members of Congress, industry leaders and the presidents and administrators of the nation’s HBCUs.

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Rider University Dean Steps Down From Post After University Blocks Chick-Fil-A From Coming to Campus

Dr. Cynthia Newman, dean of the College of Business Administration at Rider University, has stepped down from her post following the university’s decision to prevent a Chick-fil-A from opening a chain on campus. Newman claimed that the school’s choice and words about the restaurant chain’s values don’t align with her beliefs as a Christian woman. […]

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