On Monday, 4th of March HEPI, with the support of Oracle hosted a roundtable on Equality, diversity and inclusion in higher education. The scale of the problem – particularly with regard to race – will be familiar to many, including the statistic that of 19,000 professors in the UK, only 115 are black and only 25 are black women. More...
Community colleges tend to have the greatest diversity among their students than other types of higher education institutions, yet they still face challenges in attaining diversity among faculty. More...
Students of color seldom see teachers who look like them. This is because many aspiring teachers of color are pushed out of the profession before they have a chance to start. It’s not poor performance in college courses or teaching internships that take the biggest toll. It is the standardized tests aspiring teachers must pass to earn a teaching license. More...
By Joshua Kim. Some personal observations.
Over the years, I’ve gotten to know lots of companies in the edtech space. More...
By Eboo Patel. It would have been so much easier if the principal opponents of LGBTQ inclusion in the Methodist church were all rich, white, male, arrogant vulgarians. More...
By Eboo Patel. Diversity progressives should be careful about the kind of activism that poisons the atmosphere, because soon even they will be choking on the fumes. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Yale has pledged millions for faculty diversity, but 13 professors who teach in its ethnicity, race and migration studies program say they'll walk if they don't get the resources and autonomy they've been promised. More...
By Scott Jaschik. New research says critics of elite colleges' policies may want to pay more attention to what happens after graduation. More...
A core curriculum must be institutionalized and mandated for all students, argues Daisy Verduzco Reyes. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
Katherine W. Phillips, Scientific American, 2014/10/01
I have frequently cited diversity as one of the key ingredients of network design. This is not an arbitrary choice; emergence is not possible without diversity. So it's not surprising to see articles like this pointing to how diversity makes us (ie., society) smarter. More...
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