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OPINION: Legacy admissions are unnecessary, raise moral concerns and exclude deserving students

The Hechinger Report

In the fall of 2022, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave $100 million to the United Negro College Fund and to other institutions that promote higher education as a means to equality for lower income, Black, Latinx and Indigenous students. But who is excluded from that community? And what are the consequences for those left out?

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Farhana Loonat Receives the 2024 APSA Community College Faculty Award

Political Science Now

Invited to present at the University of London and to deliver a TEDx Talk, titled “Racism in Higher Education”, at the University of Santa Barbara in 2022, she excels at translating complex ideas into accessible and impactful discourse. Loonat is a prolific researcher whose work has garnered international recognition.

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations.

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

You can help us broaden this important work by running a Wikipedia assignment in Winter/Spring 2022. In a course on African Politics , students created new articles on Voting rights in Nigeria as well as Child soldiers in Uganda. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them. To put this into context, that number was just 41 bills in the whole of 2018.

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How to keep dual-language programs from being gentrified by English speaking families

The Hechinger Report

In 2011, one mother filed a complaint with the Cambridge Human Rights Commission, alleging that Amigos no longer served the Hispanic community. States and the federal government could, and should, incentivize districts to open programs where there is the most need, and discourage programs targeted mostly at English speakers.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. pic.twitter.com/0ADtH573Jf — Don Dumas (@don_dumas) December 5, 2022 I received Matthew Delmont’s book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad , from the Zinn Education Project.