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Report Offers Solutions to Increase Racial Equity in Math Pathways

A new report from Just Equations, a non-profit organization that seeks to re-envision mathematics to ensure greater educational equity, offers a playbook for redesigning college math pathways which have been a distinct source of inequity.

Community Colleges

Report: Provosts Support More Data Collection About Students’ Basic Needs

A new report from Ithaka S+R has found that while community college provosts want to collect more data about students’ basic needs, factors such as limited resources and infrastructure restrict their ability to do so.

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Report Finds Workload Inequities Based on Faculty Members’ Race and Gender

New research on faculty member workloads at colleges and universities across the country, indicate glaring inequities based on gender and race.

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Huston-Tillotson University Partners With Apple to Increase Black Male Teachers

With the goal of diversifying the K-12 teaching pipeline, Huston-Tillotson University (HT) has collaborated with Apple to launch a new program. In the United States, only 2% of teachers are Black men.

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Meet the 2021 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Female Finalists

The Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar award is a part of Diverse’s quarter-century legacy of recognizing outstanding minority young men and women who have distinguished themselves in their academic and athletic pursuits. Meet this year’s female finalists.

Chanel Thomas – University of Mississippi

Asian American Pacific Islander

Webinar Tackles Anti-Asian Hate

Several hundred educators recently participated in “Community Connection: Recent Incidents of Racially-Motivated Bias, Violence and Hate Against Asian Americans,” produced by ACUHO-I (Association of College and University Housing Officers—International) and NADOHE (National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education).

Report: Teacher Salaries Increase While the Wage Gaps Dip

The national average salary for teachers has increased slightly over the past decade thanks to hard-fought education movements. The pay gap between teachers and other college-educated professionals also dropped after hitting a record high in 2018, according to an annual report released by the National Education Association. Then the pandemic hit, potentially reversing any progress made so far.

March Madness Thrives Amid Scrutiny, COVID-19 Concerns

March Madness returned in 2021, after being shut down by COVID-19 in 2020. As conferences and the NCAA sought to recover some of the losses associated with last year’s canceled men’s basketball tournament, teams and a very limited number of fans returned to coliseums this spring with restrictions in place, but with cautious optimism and excitement over the perennial spring tournaments.

Proctor Institute Report Examines Mexican American Studies Implementation in Texas Public Schools

A new report from Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice is highlighting and advocating for efforts to integrate Mexican American Studies (MAS) into the Texas K-12 education system.

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A Q&A with the NCAA’s Felicia Martin, VP of the Eligibility Center

Here is a Q&A with the NCAA’s Felicia Martin, VP of the Eligibility Center

Howard Architecture Professor Builds Representation of People, Ideas in the Field

It takes just one person to change the trajectory of someone’s life. For Bradford Grant, professor of architecture at Howard University’s College of Engineering and Architecture, that person was the first African American teacher he had as a middle schooler in the California Bay area.

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Widener University Adjusts Prison Education Program to Serve Students During COVID-19

Over the last year, COVID-19 has put many prison education programs on pause due to visitation limitations and lack of internet access. However, through a longstanding partnership between Widener University and Chester State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania (SCI-Chester)—an all-male correctional facility—remote learning was modified to meet the needs of students behind bars.

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