April 2021

April 28, 2021 | : Brown University’s Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence is giving $474,000 in grants to support Providence Public School District (PPSD) programs, according to Brown officials. “A Public Education Committee composed of Providence and Brown community members voted unanimously to allocate the Fund’s 2021 payout to support key […]

University of California, Davis, has released a document showing the school’s investments in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Some of the investments include creating a campus advisory position to help develop equity strategies; hiring additional diversity subject-matter experts; partnering with the Transformative Justice in Education Center; establishing the Next Generation Reforms to Advance Campus Safety

April 28, 2021 | : 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. Darren Lenard Hutchinson Hutchinson – legal, social justice and civil rights scholar – is currently the Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar at the University of

April 28, 2021 | : Philanthropist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will deliver the keynote address at Howard University’s Honors and Oaths Ceremony on May 7. Michael Bloomberg Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg will address the graduating class of 2021 in a private ceremony for the College of Medicine graduates only.

April 28, 2021 | : 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. The report, “Leading from the Hyphen: A Conocimientos Movement to Integrate Mexican American Studies into Texas Public

April 26, 2021 | : Over the last year, COVID-19 has put many prison education programs on pause due to visitation limitations and lack of internet access. Dr. Julie Wollman 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

April 26, 2021 | :  The recent appointment of two Black women—Rashida Jones and Kimberly Godwin—to run major U.S. media companies, is a good step in the right direction, according to media observers who have long been pushing for increased diversity in newsrooms across the nation. The fact that Jones and Godwin are both graduates

One aspect of the Derek Chauvin verdicts in the murder of George Floyd that people fail to see is how there’s justice in diversity—if you let diversity work. I caught the verdicts while livestreaming. All I could hear were the key words: “ Guilty….Guilty….Guilty.” An astonishing triplet. A cop lost in court. You could hear

April 26, 2021 | : Purdue University Global and CityWorks DC have partnered to support D.C. area high school students with career preparation. CareerWise DC offers a three-year applied-learning environment for students and a talent-acquisition strategy for businesses, according to Purdue officials. Purdue Global will help in various ways, including providing support to assist students