“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed several bills Monday that will bring major changes to the state’s higher education system, including banning public colleges and universities from spending money on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.” To read the full article, click here.  

Surrounded by the people who helped ensure a brighter future for people living with disabilities and all Pennsylvanians, Pa. state Rep. Joe Hohenstein watched as Gov. Wolf signed his Disability Inclusive Curriculum Bill into law. Hohenstein called the law a huge victory for people who live with a disability, adding that teaching and talking about […]

My podcast, Equitable Minds, is now available on Apple Podcast. Check it out! Click on this link.  

Heirs of the Great Migration is a narrative biography grounded in Dr. James “Manny” Wright’s family migration from Jim Crow-era sharecropping in North Carolina to manufacturing jobs in the industrial Northeast. Wright frames his generation— Generation X (1964-1981), as inheritors of the aspirations of their ancestors and the first Black American generation granted full citizenship […]

The Brooklyn Public Library is issuing a nationwide library card for students to access many books that are now banned. Click here for more information. For a list of other unbanned books click the Unbanned Book tab at the top of this page.    

   

Governor Sanders states, “ethnically insensitive and pejorative language has no place in official government documents or government employee titles.” For a link to this article, click here.  

“An office within the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work says it is removing the term “field” from its curriculum because it may have racist connotations related to slavery.” For a link to the article, click here.  

Edward Tian created a new app,  GPTZero, “to combat the misuse of a powerful, new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT.” ChatGPT can “do an endless array of things: write a story in a particular style, answer a question, explain a concept, compose an email — write a college essay — and it will spit out coherent, […]