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Acrobatics and Tumbling Recommended for NCAA Championship Status

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"The advancement of acrobatics and tumbling toward National Collegiate Championship status is a powerful step forward for women's sports," said Ragean Hill, chair of the Committee on Women's Athletics and executive associate athletics director/senior woman administrator at Charlotte.

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Business and Health Professions Lead Faculty Growth as Humanities Decline, CUPA-HR Report Finds

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The report, "Two Decades of Change: Faculty Discipline Trends in Higher Education," analyzes data from CUPA-HR's Faculty in Higher Education Survey from 2003-04 to 2023-24, revealing significant shifts in faculty size, tenure status, and salaries across academic disciplines.

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Why Inclusive Education Is So Difficult to Defend and Deliver

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But by the following week, she was on administrative leave. 2003 ; Bloom, 2009 ). She was inspired by recent workshops and publications advocating for culturally responsive pedagogies, approaches that seek to make learning concrete, evoke emotion, and connect historical content to students’ lived realities.

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The Persistent 'Bamboo Ceiling': AAPI Leaders Still Rare Among College Presidents

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As APAHE board president, Tomaneng is considering forming a national network for AAPI and Desi provosts and senior administrators to provide them executive coaching as reminders that presidencies not their current roles can be career mountaintops. Suzuki was the first Asian American to lead a major U.S.

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Former Library of Congress Chief Carla Hayden Joins Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow

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The administration's criticism focused on Hayden's diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and her efforts to make the library's collections more representative of America's diverse communities. Hayden's contributions to library science have earned widespread recognition. She holds a B.A. from Roosevelt University and M.A.

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Women’s Wrestling Aims At 2026 NCAA Championship Status

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Ragean Hill "We are extremely proud of the work that USA Wrestling has done to make this a reality in such a short period of time,” said Ragean Hill, chair of the Committee on Women's Athletics and executive associate athletics director/senior woman administrator at Charlotte.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

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14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. (“White House Honoree, Jan. 16, 2003) 5. From Opening Doors to Opening Minds,” Aug. Acknowledging Top 100 Degree Producers.