Education

Black Lives (don’t) Matter in Higher Education

As a Black tenure-track professor, I was surprised when I walked onto my current campus and realized…

Equipping Educators for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

According to a recent survey conducted by the Cengage Group and Bay View Analytics, a mere 16% of educators feel…

Dialectical Thinking, Love Ethics, and Enduring a Strike

The climate at California State Universities is uneasy. Collective bargaining negotiations between the California Faculty…

Diversity has become a dirty word, and not because it deserves to be.

The new year started with this lesson. Claudine Gay, the first Black woman president of…

You Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Your College Rape

Last month, Senator Tim Kaine introduced the SUCCESS Act, to support student survivors of sexual assault and…

Same Song, Different Dance: Name, Image, and Likeness Disguised as College Athlete Empowerment

As Sunday night football returns to television sets and streaming platforms, football has seen a dramatic…

Affirmative Action Reboot: Make Admissions More Fair This Year

Just over 20 years ago as a new Cambridge University graduate, I got on a…

For anyone who loves picture books!

As a child, I hardly ever read a book that had a main (or even…

Cultural Competency in Special Education is Needed to Handle Differing Cultural Assumptions Around Disability

At my sons’ annual school planning meeting 20 years ago, I sat quietly as the…

An unintended consequence of ending affirmative action: less faculty diversity

Aminah loves being an undergraduate student in the Ivy League and finds the curriculum incredibly…

Open Your Eyes: Bias is Real

With affirmative action struck down by the Supreme Court several weeks ago, focus has shifted…

We need affirmative action because Black Americans didn’t get the media boost AAPI people did

Not everybody gets into their dream school. I didn’t. My first-choice college rejected my application.…

Why teaching Asian American representation matters to future generations

My daughter has an entirely different collection of children’s books than what I grew up…

Ed Tech in the Post-Pandemic Times

I teach graduate education students on how to integrate educational technology in their future classrooms.…

Let’s not call illegal harassment of transgender students bullying

“Nobody is under any obligation to be kind to me in school,” argued Montana State…