Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

For Dr. Lauren Christine Mims, few challenges are more important in public education than creating spaces for Black students to flourish and thrive. Colleagues and students hail Mims for shifting the focus away from viewing Black students, parents, and families through a deficit lens. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

Matthews in starting what was initially a monthly newsletter on Black Issues In Higher Education , we now know the power of pathways in helping Black boys like me go from being a nerdy high school student in Richmond, Virginia, to a tenured professor at a flagship state university where the governor once stood in the Schoolhouse Door.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

“The main way that we can help prepare athletes for college is to [make them] really good gymnasts, which means they are focused, and they understand hard work — all of the things that help them become good students,” says former rhythmic gymnast Wendy Hilliard, who established the Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation (WHGF) in 1996.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 6, 2023

I left Duke University, that I loved and still love, where I have friends, colleagues, and students. Here I'm in service to thousands of students and all the faculty and staff, and the day that it doesn't feel like a privilege is the day I should quit. The day that I left, I was no longer going to be entangled in that institution.

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