Jessica Ruf (EDU)Jessica Ruf is a writer and copy editor for the print magazine at Diverse. She can be reached at [email protected].African-AmericanTextbooks Will Be Free For Two Years at North Carolina A&T Through B&N PartnershipFree textbooks will be available to undergraduates at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, through a partnership with Barnes & Noble College and its “BNC First Day Complete” program. The program provides “an innovative course material delivery model” that ensures students have all the materials they need […]June 18, 2021HomeHow This Minneapolis Man Is Healing Collective Trauma Through Creative Counseling and MentoringJamil Stamschror-Lott is a mental health provider running his own therapy practice, Creative Kuponya, which he and his wife Sara founded together in 2017. The practice — named after the Swahili word for “healing” — is based in Minneapolis, the city he moved to as a child in the ’90s.June 17, 2021News Roundup$1.5M Grant To Train Next Generation of Equity in Education ResearchersA $1.5 million “Pathways to Training” grant from the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) is striving to mold students into education researchers who could improve the “schooling experiences and academic attainment” of Black and Latino students from pre-K all the way through university. “This program is designed to prepare the next generation of critical education […]June 17, 2021Home‘Get Close to Injustice’ and ‘Expect the Unexpected’: Advice From This Year’s Education SummitTwo major hurdles face the future of higher education — an unpredictable workforce and racial injustice — according to historian Yuval Noah Harari and legal expert and civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, both of whom presented at the ninth annual Education Summit hosted by Salesforce.June 16, 2021LatinxU of Texas at San Antonio Receives ‘Transformational’ $40M GiftThe University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received an unrestricted gift of $40 million from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett, who say they chose the Hispanic serving institution for its commitment to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Calling the gift “transformational,” UTSA is developing a “comprehensive plan” that will allocate the money toward […]June 15, 2021LGBTQ+Teaching New Voices: This Academic Librarian is Working to Make Children’s Books More DiverseAmanda Melilli wants libraries to reflect the lives of their readers. An academic librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Melilli is the head of UNLV’s Teacher Development and Resources Library (TDRL), which supports the university’s College of Education as well as educators in the Las Vegas community. In the past decade, the […]June 11, 2021News RoundupLegislators Introduce BASIC Act to Help Students Meet Most Basic NeedsA group of legislators introduced legislation on Thursday that could help students meet their most basic needs — such as food, housing, child care and transportation — while pursuing an education. Named the BASIC act, the bill proposes an investment of $1 billion in grants that would help education institutions fulfill their students’ “most fundamental […]June 10, 2021News RoundupCivil Rights Lawyer, Higher Ed Leader Named Chief Diversity Officer at Baruch CollegeCivil rights lawyer and higher education leader Elliott Dawes will become the new executive chief diversity officer at Baruch College, a constituent college of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Starting Aug. 2, Dawes will lead Baruch’s Office of Diversity, Compliance, and Equity Initiatives and serve as the College’s Title IX Coordinator, Section […]June 3, 2021News RoundupRice University’s Open Resources Program Welcomes New Cohort of UniversitiesA dozen new colleges and universities will join in on Rice University’s educational technology initiative OpenStax, which helps provide open educational resources, textbooks and technologies to universities. “This OpenStax program has helped over 70 colleges and universities expand the use of open educational resources on their campuses, saving their students money and putting more flexible […]June 3, 2021Community CollegesRethinking the 16-Week Semester: Is a Shorter Semester More Equitable? And for Whom?COVID-19’s impact on student success and mental health forced institutions to reexamine the efficacy of academic structures that had long been considered status quo. For some schools, that included rethinking the 16-week semester.June 2, 2021Previous PagePage 6 of 43Next Page