From San Clemente Times: “As Saddleback College approaches its 50th anniversary in 2018, the school is looking toward the future with a number of projects in academia and facilities.”
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California Mandates LGBTQ-Inclusive Sex Education
From the Human Rights Campaign: “Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill to update and strengthen the state’s sexual health and HIV prevention curriculum. Beginning on January 1, this new law mandates that all public schools include comprehensive information on sexual orientation, gender identity and HIV prevention, among other areas, in their sexual health curriculum for students in grades 7 through 12. It also requires schools to offer sexual health education, which had previously been optional.”
UCF Partners Receive Grant to Expand Inclusive Education
From University of Central Florida: “The University of Central Florida and three university partners have been award a $2.5 million, five-year federal grant to assist students with intellectual disabilities successfully transition into higher education.”
More Than a “Special Issue”: Maintaining the conversation about race at McGill.
From The McGill Daily: “The critical articles featured in The Daily’s recent special issue on race are both timely and painfully timeless. In the following response I build on and offer further context for some of the concerns raised in the article “No more excuses” (March 23, Special Issue Pullout, p. 10), which discussed the representation of faculty members of colour at McGill. I do so through drawing on my experiences at McGill over the past four years as well as my doctoral research examining the social relations between Black people and the University.”
MSU Professor Researches Inclusive Education for Students with Disabilities
From WKMS: “We conclude a new series of reports called Racer Scholar Profiles, highlighting Murray State Faculty research, scholarly and creative activities across colleges and schools, with Assistant Professor in the Department of Adolescent, Career and Special Education: Dr. Ajay Das. His research centers on inclusive education for students with disabilities through post-secondary education. Dr. Das speaks with Kate Lochte on Sounds Good about his findings.”
Association of American Colleges and Universities Releases “Step Up and Lead for Equity”; Calls for Stronger Leadership and Campus Action to Advance Inclusive Excellence in Education
From AAC&U: “At a forum co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) released today two publications as part of its Centennial Year exploration of equity and inclusive excellence.”
Educators Share Strategies for Helping International Students Succeed
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “With just-released research suggesting that there are gaps in colleges’ understanding about international-student retention, conference-goers here at the annual meeting of Nafsa: Association of International Educators are asking: So, what can we do to ensure students don’t leave without earning their degree?”
Campus Diversity, Often Seen as Key to Learning, Can Have an Educational Downside
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Although diversity on college campuses is widely viewed as crucial for learning, negative experiences with students from other backgrounds may actually hurt undergraduates’ intellectual development, a new study suggests.”
Oklahoma Legislature Targets AP History Framework for Being Negative
From Inside Higher Ed: “American history is constantly debated not only by historians but by politicians. So it was largely unsurprising when some Republicans started to criticize the new Advanced Placement U.S. history framework last year for allegedly downplaying positive elements of America’s past. Many historians were caught off guard last week, however, when the criticism grew legs, at least in Oklahoma: a legislative committee there easily passed a bill declaring the new AP curriculum an “emergency” threatening the “public peace, health and safety,” to be defunded in the coming school year.”
History and Anthropology Departments at Sacramento State University Square Off Over New Course
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From Inside Higher Ed: “Who’s better suited to teach about American institutions and ideals: cultural anthropologists or historians of U.S. history? That question is at the heart of a debate about a general education requirement at Sacramento State University that’s riled historians there.”