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Cate Bouvet, The Daily Northwestern Katherine Sloman (SESP ’10) said she used to call herself a proud alum; she wore her Northwestern purple everywhere, watched all the football games and…

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on January 27, 2025 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Learn more about The Teaching Professor here. Over the past several years, I have had the deep privilege of participating in The Way of Remembering (WOR), a spiritually grounded journey to Benin that looks at intergenerational trauma and healing through the lens of African ways of knowing. Benin is a beautiful country and is the birthplace of Vodún (commonly called Voodoo). It is also home to strong oral traditions and healing practices that focus on community connections. As a site deeply scarred by the transatlantic slave trade,…

by Meredith Kolodner, The Hechinger Report December 19, 2025 LUBBOCK, Texas — The meeting of the local NAACP chapter began with a prayer — and then the litany of injustices came pouring out.  A Black high school football player was called a “b—h-ass” n-word during a game by white players in September with no consequence, his mom said. A Black 12-year-old boy, falsely accused last December of touching a white girl’s breast, was threatened and interrogated by a police officer at school without his parents and sentenced to a disciplinary alternative school for a month, his grandfather recounted. A Black honors…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / 2026 EJS Foundation Minority Scholarship (Deadline: May 1, 2026) December 18, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: Minority students are often placed at a disadvantage when it comes to pursuing higher education. The wealth gap often means that minority students do not have the financial resources necessary to finance their college education, forcing many to turn to student loans in order to pursue their educational goals. These loans and their high interest rates trap many students in cycles of debt, holding them back from saving for retirement, buying homes, and…

Karin Fischer, Chronicle of Higher EdIt It will damage more than just universities.

You are here: Home / Scholarships / Fuiava Engineering Scholarship (Deadline: April 20, 2026) December 18, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: Engineering is an incredibly powerful field that can be used to build a better world and to create real solutions to life’s problems. Engineering offers many incredible opportunities for one’s career, but these benefits are locked away behind years of education, which comes at no small expense. When higher education is financially inaccessible, bright students lose out on their professional futures. This scholarship seeks to support Samoan students who are ready to take on the…

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Russell et al., The New York Times For the students in the Brown University review session, concerns about grades and questions about economic concepts would be forgotten in an instant.

After a year that has tested the resiliency of a centuries-old sector, ideas for reinvention have emerged. Most agree that higher ed is in a moment of crisis, but few agree on what exactly is the cause. In a higher ed landscape rich with a diversity of institutions, agreement on a common cure is impossible. That’s where the visions for the future of higher ed diverge. Research universities have lost billions in federal funding, rich selective universities face higher endowment taxes starting next summer, and institutions relying on TRIO grants or minority-serving–institutions funding saw millions of dollars disappear overnight. Despite…

Myriam Da Silva, CEO of CheckIT Learning, discusses the complexities of attention in education, emphasizing realistic expectations for student engagement. Through research and practical examples, she highlights how teachers can create engaging environments. The episode also shares a poignant story about the impact of a teacher’s attention on a young girl in the 1960s.We want kids to “pay attention” But is it realistic that they could actually pay attention all the time? How about the attention at the beginning of class? Or multiple peaks of attention?Myriam Da Silva, CEO of CheckITLearning and author of the first AI neuroscience lesson planning…