Social Justice

Second Chance Pell Students Mark Progress for Prison Education

Miami Dade College will award associate degrees to 18 incarcerated students at Everglades Correctional Institution.

July 7, 2022

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ASHE Conference Focuses on Spanning and Unsettling the Borders of Higher Education

On the second day of the conference, scholars participated in a variety of workshops that focused on a range of topics, including cultivating student persistence and success to pushing for access and diversity in international higher education.

November 5, 2021

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Educator, Activist and Poet Sonia Sanchez Receives Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize

October 11, 2021

Boston University Launches Antiracist Scholar Program for Aspiring Lawyers

Boston University School of Law (BU Law) started a new program called Antiracist Scholars for Progress, Innovation, and Racial Equity (ASPIRE) with the University's Center for Antiracist Research. ASPIRE scholars will receive a full scholarship to BU Law.

October 7, 2021

Dr. Angela Onwuachi-Willig, dean of Boston University School of Law and professor of law

Panel at National Urban League Conference Tackles Black Wealth Gap

At the National Urban League’s annual conference this week, business leaders in a Wednesday session shared how Black and brown communities can help close the racial economic gap by working together and educating each other.

September 29, 2021

Dr. Michael Casson, dean of the College of Business at Delaware State University and a panelist at the National Urban League's 2021 conference

Alum Creates Social Justice Fund and Scholarship at Central College

August 24, 2021

Dr. Paul Poppen

Author and Diversity Advocate, Dr. James Loewen, Dead at 79

August 23, 2021

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Dr. Ivory A. Toldson Named NAACP's New Director of Education Innovation and Research

The NAACP has named Dr. Ivory A. Toldson its new director of education innovation and research.

August 13, 2021

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Darren Lenard Hutchinson Named Emory University Inaugural John Lewis Chair for Civil Rights and Social Justice

Darren Lenard Hutchinson has been named Emory University School of Law’s inaugural John Lewis Chair for Civil Rights and Social Justice, effective Jul. 1. Hutchinson – legal, social justice and civil rights scholar – is currently the Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Previously, Hutchinson held […]

April 28, 2021

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Lehigh University Receives $2.5 Million to Create Social Justice Institute

Lehigh University has received $2.5 million to create an institute for social and racial justice, lehighvalleylive.com reported. The donation comes from Bethlehem native and philanthropist Charles Marcon, an executive with Allentown-based Duggan & Marcon. The “Marcon Institute” is to prepare and deploy undergrad students – Marcon Fellows – to work with community partners to enact […]

April 27, 2021

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Scholars Wonder at the Trajectory of Expanding Social Justice Programs

George Floyd was killed by police a few miles from Dr. Valerie Chepp’s house. And as her students went out into the streets to protest this past summer, she completely redesigned her senior capstone course for the fall. Chepp is the social justice program director for Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and through the program, she felt like she had the opportunity to address the questions student activists were asking themselves while equipping them with applicable skills for their community organizing.

April 13, 2021

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Law Schools Respond to the Movement for Social Justice

The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the violent death of George Floyd and the global protests that ensued have triggered a reckoning in many institutional spaces, including American law schools. Concerned law professors and deans have examined their courses and curricula to determine what changes need to be made to address issues of racism and bias in the United States.

April 12, 2021

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Chief Diversity Officers Play Critical Role in Effecting Lasting Change on Campus

The rise in social activism on campuses — generated by continued anti-Black violence and hate crimes against Asian Americans — has led many colleges and universities to analyze their diversity policies and practices. In many places, the conversation starts with reexamining the role of the chief diversity officer, who is often charged with helping institutions develop “cultural competency and expand the social bandwidth of their respective institutions,” says Elizabeth Moore, interim chief diversity officer at Gallaudet University.

April 9, 2021

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Accessibility Services and Moving Towards Universal Design

I wonder if we who are nondisabled teachers have become so desensitized to the realities of disabled students that the violence done unto them by the university has disappeared from the informal settings in which we express surprise and frustration to one another.

January 19, 2021

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New “J-Term” at Loyola University New Orleans Puts Focus on Race, Equity and Inclusion

For the first time in its history, Loyola University New Orleans is currently offering its students two weeks of accelerated learning during the month of January. All of the 3-credit courses offered during the “J-Term” are free and relate to topics tied specifically to race, equity and inclusion.

January 10, 2021

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Equity Requires Action

COVID-19 has affected us all in different ways. During the spring semester, most colleges and universities had to pivot to move courses online. At that time most, if not all, students left campus. As the American Medical Association pointed out, the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) populations because they “suffer disproportionally, due to the inequities in society perpetuated by systematic practices.”

October 2, 2020

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Rutgers Receives $15M Grant to Establish Global Racial Justice Institute

Rutgers University has been awarded a five-year $15 million grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. The grant is among the largest sums in Rutgers history, and will coordinate faculty across Rutgers campuses in Newark, New Brunswick and Camden, and support and amplify the […]

September 24, 2020

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What Do Sporting Boycotts Tell Us About Ourselves?

The decision to boycott has been coupled with questions about what NBA players and other professional athletes are going to do next. The boycotting, however, needs to be framed as a greater cultural moment that is reflective of American shortcomings rather than asking athlete to carry the mantel for social activism.

September 1, 2020

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