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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?

NonProfit Quarterly

They include a spate of police actions on campuses , anti-DEI and anti-tenure legislation, academic freedom lawsuits , weaponization of accreditation , and political tests for everything from curriculum to top institutional leadership. This view is truly disruptive of historic social relationships and university hierarchies.

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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

Limited access to education is also a social vulnerability: the systemic barriers further exacerbate the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities. The climate crisis is an urgent and pervasive threat, and it disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

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Warnings of an “Unparalleled” Assault on Higher Education

NonProfit Quarterly

The report states that Florida’s public colleges and universities “face a politically and ideologically driven assault unparalleled in US history” (1), with implications for the whole country. Act, banning the teaching in public schools of a wide swath of racial or racially informed curricula. Last year, Gov.

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Bringing Climate into the Classroom: New Hampshire Students Push for Increased Climate Literacy

NonProfit Quarterly

—Sarah Weintraub, 18, 350NH Youth Team-member For over a year, beginning in 2023, the 350NH Youth Organizing Program has been spearheading an effort to increase education about climate change in public schools throughout New Hampshire. 5 Now, the teens are setting their sights on schools. 34 “I think some of the teachers are nervous.

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Great Nonprofit Marketing Jobs: Friday Futures

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Director of Communications and Public Relations , American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, MA). Program Associate , Policy Advocacy & Organizing, Illinois Public Health Institute (Chicago, IL). Program Manager – Pathway to Leadership in Urban Schools , The New Teach Project (Philadelphia, PA).

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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

In developing the report, the EPA accepted feedback from the public from October 2021 through March 2022 and conducted nearly a dozen public listening sessions, including one for tribal communities as they are some of the most impacted by lead. It also includes presentation slides that community members can use to teach others.

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

He said, [Our] failure to facilitate a pluralism of approaches in teaching economics is a deprivation of basic students’ rights, indeed citizen rights leading…to a narrow, blinkered, and distorted education. During his remarks, Powell referred to economics as “the science of public policy.”