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Section: Opinion
Opinion
Inspiring Tech Context
The context of sports and entertainment stardom can inspire extreme levels of practice, perseverance, and production on playing courts and fields. Context addresses the important “for what” question.
December 30, 2022
Opinion
It was NEVER about Deion: HBCU Realities VS. Perceptions
Some may believe that being proximal to whiteness is a benefit to HBCUs but in reality, whiteness has never and will never be beneficial to HBCUs.
December 22, 2022
Opinion
The Seeds of Diversity Beget a President of Harvard
If you want to see the progress of diversity, look no further than the ascendence of Dr. Claudine Gay, the first Black president and the 30th president of Harvard University.
December 21, 2022
Opinion
Purdue Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon's Mockery of an "Asian" Language is Emblematic of a Wider Problem in American Higher Education
Chancellor Keon’s performance is emblematic of a wider problem in American higher education: that Asian students are often regarded as a monolithic group of cash cows, plagiarizers and cheaters, objects of ridicule, or all of the above.
December 19, 2022
Opinion
Why HBCUs Need Campus Abolition (And The Rest of Y’all Too)
As academic research and movements committed to abolition have consistently demonstrated, safety for vulnerable people and communities is incommensurable with the presence of a violent apparatus for criminalization and punishment.
December 16, 2022
Opinion
Inspiring Tech On-Ramps
There is a need to find ways to meet students where they are and integrate meaningful content and curriculum into what they are doing.
December 15, 2022
Opinion
The Consuming Effects of Commodifying Education on Faculty Members
How can people within higher education collectively resist dynamics that position students as consumers, administrators as powerful bosses, and faculty as ideal workers?
December 14, 2022
Opinion
Unboxed: The Art of Fighting Off Limiting Labels
Labels can equal limitations if the person being labeled comes into agreement with their categorization and/or those who have decision-making authority when it comes to their upward mobility come into agreement with it.
December 12, 2022
Opinion
Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success
The precipitous, unrelenting decline in Black community college enrollment since 2011 is the canary in the mine for American higher education.
December 8, 2022
Opinion
The Supreme Court Website Case That Could Make Discrimination Legal and Threaten the Meaning of Diversity
If the court upholds a website designer’s assertion that creating a marriage website conflicts with her free speech and religious right, what is to stop a college from saying they cannot teach or serve LGBTQ people whose beliefs offend their rights?
December 6, 2022
Opinion
Grassroots Push for Computer Science Education Gears Up
We want to create a parallel system of development for computer science and other fields.
December 3, 2022
From the Magazine
Cultivating a Culture of Connection and Care for the Changing Terrain
Perspectives and expectations based on work from home that began during the COVID-19 pandemic spawned changes in communicating, teaching, and engaging.
December 2, 2022
Opinion
Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains
The disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed much hard-fought progress.
November 30, 2022
Opinion
Get Comfortable Being Hated
You are going to receive criticism and hate. You will have haters. If you want to be great, prepare to be hated.
November 23, 2022
Opinion
Engage New Students Early Or Lose Them: Here’s How to Do It
One reason so many community college students drop out early on is that they are not helped to explore their interests and options and develop an educational plan aligned with their strengths and aspirations.
November 22, 2022
From the Magazine
Diverse Students Are Going Hungry at the Cafeteria Curriculum
Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum.
November 18, 2022
Opinion
National Opinion Polls on Affirmative Action: Inflaming an Issue that is Divisive Enough
Any person of color in America knows that “race” is not only about melanin; it is the experiences that children who happen to be Black, Hispanic or Native American learn all too well at an early age.
November 17, 2022
Opinion
"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students
There is nothing ‘wrong’ with Black and other disenfranchised minoritized students who score lower on tests than white students. There’s something wrong with the tests!
November 16, 2022
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