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How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

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Tyndall turned down a bevy of offers from colleges in other states to attend Rutgers’ Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which brings together dozens of students each year for a residential program that combines rigorous academics with a social-justice focus. “I Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

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Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. It’s significant progress toward the goal of connecting more young people with educational and career opportunities in technology.

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A case for educational reparations for the incarcerated

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We don’t like to think of social justice as a zero-sum game. Eleven percent of black men in Louisiana have a college degree, compared to 25 percent of white men, according to my analysis of 2016 census data. Higher Education. A prisoner’s hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana.

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How to find minority teachers who want to stay in the job?

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Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. For years, education reformers, particularly in the charter school world, have focused on recruiting the best teachers.

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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

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Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.

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New faces on campus: Students of all races welcome first black presidents to largely white colleges

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The 2012 survey from the American Council on Education was sent to public and private colleges and universities across the U.S., 6 percent — The number of colleges and universities led by a black president, according to a 2012 survey from the American Council on Education (13.3 percent of the U.S. population is black).

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

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The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.