@booker.senate.gov #25hrs 👏🏾

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

ACE, Higher Education Groups Urge Department of Education to Rescind DEI “Dear Colleague” Letter ACE and more than 60 higher education associations have called on the Department of Education to rescind its recent Dear Colleague Letter regarding DEI policies on college campuses.

ICYMI: Last week, ACE and more than 60 higher education associations called on the Department of Education to rescind its recent Dear Colleague Letter regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion policies on college campuses.

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Excited to have @sunyofficial.bsky.social @johnbkingjr.bsky.social as our 46th Pullias Lecture speaker! @akezar.bsky.social @uscrossier.bsky.social

Attorney General Bonta Provides Guidance for Businesses on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Initiatives in the Workplace Policies and practices that combat unalwful discrimination and harrassment remain an important – and legal – tool for improving hiring, retention, and employee engagement OAKLAND – California Attorney...

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We are accepting applications for the free Change Leadership Toolkit Implementation Project until Feb. 21! With the guidance of experts, you can use the CLT, a guidebook for leaders who are working to make change. shorturl.at/tfKi8

@akezar.bsky.social, @dradjgonzalez.bsky.social

So many men who look like moldy feet think it's perfectly reasonable to tell women how ugly & unworthy they are. And patriarchy convinces women to not only marry but stay married to these losers, who bring nothing to the table but a job they'd have to have anyway. Patriarchy is the ultimate scam.

Join me #ACPA25

Our Shared Equity Leadership project is highlighted in this new Student Affairs Podcast with @keithephd.bsky.social. Our SEL team explains how distributed, embedded, and integrated responsibility and leadership can make a difference for all campuses. @akezar.bsky.social @dradjgonzalez.bsky.social

Shared Equity Leadership YouTube video by Student Affairs Now

In this week's snippet, Dr. Jordan Harper talks about the importance of avoiding catastrophizing in the midst of difficult challenges and attacks.
youtu.be/iCQ6KSu2PI8

The article "Systemic Change at Community Colleges: Highlighting Leader Moves of Transformation," in New Directions for Community Colleges features the Change Leadership Toolkit, helping leaders make change. shorturl.at/gy3Q0

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Academic Freedom Crisis Toolkit

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it.

Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.

But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.

They aren’t firing for a reason.

This is how a dictator acts.
 
Sending 30K migrants to Guantanamo—a place w/ repeated human rights violations—is an attempt to evade our legal system & act in the shadows hundreds of miles away.
 
REMINDER—the U.S. affords weaker due process/legal rights for people detained there.

remember that this man’s goal is to get the left to divest from public education. don’t let him do it.

Call it a purge, not a buyout. Call it a coup against Congress, not a spending pause. Call it censorship, not a review. Words matter, and we in the media have a chance to do better this time.

And we are on, coming together, resisting together, and imagining possibilities of policy implementation for racial equity #CaliforniaCommunityColleges #SEPI25

The goal is to overwhelm us so we give up. Don't do that!

I think about MPJ, Sylvia, about Magistrade Ociel, of MLK, of Malcom, of Rosa, of so many who’ve done this before. I know they were scared, but also collective visionaries. It is in times like these that we must allow our hope and courage to be stronger than our fears. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️✨🏳️‍🌈

Jesus.

They rebranded segregation and the press just follows along.

Why did we need "antidiscrimination practices in federal hiring?"

What a terrible day.

I hope people can find some peace.

The End of the DEI Era As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a newly emboldened anti-DEI bloc has gained powerful allies.

"The New Segregationists" is a more accurate headline.

You could go through nearly this entire article replacing "anti-DEI" with "segregationist," and it would work.

Homogeneity is the opposite of diversity, which is what they aim for.
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Congratulations to Adrianna Kezar (@akezar.bsky.social) who Education Week ranked as #42 on their 2025 listing of Top 200 Influencers in Education. The depth of Dr. Kezar's work in equity in #highereducation is significant, and we couldn't be prouder: shorturl.at/Il6V0

@uscrossier.bsky.social

Hi, is this still on …. Here comes spring 2025 ✨❤️

5 years later, the QT Latinx Higher Education Collective (now award-winning) continues to go strong with amazing scholars and people! So grateful for this community!

Need support for your research project in the field of children’s literature? Applications for the CLA Research Award are due July 1, 2024.

Please see the CLA website for more information:

#NCTE24 #KidLitAssembly #ChidlrensLit #Research

‘Race,’ ‘equity’ removed from UNT course titles to comply with Texas DEI ban, faculty say The University of North Texas changed class titles and descriptions with some citing the state’s DEI ban though officials deny that’s the cause.

Seems to line up with reporting from Dallas Morning News www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...

Just here to say hi, see yall soon 😘💖