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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in 2003 – and 7.5% Undergraduates are most concerned with scholarship opportunities, financial literacy, and paying for their education,” survey conductors reported about the financial needs of Latino students. Encourage research and scholarship on U.S. rise from 7% to 13.6%. On the graduate level, Latino students were 9.4%

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction. This job requires being on 24-hours a day,” he says. “I at Stanford.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. Less than 10% of applicants are accepted.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The gap between exam scores among different racial groups has grown since 2003, highlighting a lack of resources and support for some student populations. Harvard adopted testing in 1934 to select scholarship recipients followed by many other institutions.

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Legal Expert Art Coleman Examines the Affirmative Action Ruling

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Particular areas of focus for Art include: student access, diversity, inclusion, expression, and success; faculty diversity, inclusion, and expression; and institutional accountability and accreditation. The Court didn't address financial aid and scholarships. It didn't address recruitment, outreach, or pathways programs.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today. To note, Black males have the highest unemployment rate in the nation. We have a long way to go to achieve equity in the academy for Black males.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When she ended her 15 years as director of BCRW in 2015, the college devoted a day-long colloquium to celebrate her contributions to feminist scholarship and research. At that event, colleagues from early in her career in academia spoke about how when they were young faculty at University of Arizona, Jakobsen built a sense of queer community.