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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

2 Despite these risk disparities, there is a significant underrepresentation of individuals from these communities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—fields that design and use tools to understand, predict, and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

So I think, in many ways, for as often as everybody complains about technology and all the challenges, I think this past year could have gone very differently if we didn’t have these platforms.” — Volunteer manager embracing technology in Ohio. “None of us were ready for this. What a year it’s been. That was the silver lining.

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Why Common Core Will Fail

Ken Goldstein

I''ve been thinking about this for a while, but it was brought to the fore for me last week when I attended Social Innovation Summit 2013 at Stanford University. The problem wasn''t that she or her students didn''t have access to uniform, national curriculum standards. The middle-class was the lowest rung we were expected to shoot for.

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Thank Heaven For 11: Take The Lead Celebrates 11 Years Working Toward Mission of Equity

Fundraising Leadership

Dr. Lily McNair, Take The Lead Board Chair and former President, Tuskegee University, says, I know from my own experience that organizations are stronger and more successful when women have an equal voice in leadership, says McNair. You already have more power than you might realize.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

I could practically teaching this class. I’m a big believer about putting things into the universe. They had to deal with their own students and their own curriculum. Our buddy, Maureen Wallbeoff is going to talk about how to get some ROI out of your technology investment. Move aside, Julie.

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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Instead, they can lean into the uniquely human elements of their job in ways that require emotional and contextual assessment and insight that technology cannot replicate. We’ve seen this same scenario play out with other technological leaps forward, time and time again. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty.