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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During 12 years there ending in 2003, Suzuki constantly urged mid- and senior-level AAPI administrators of Asian descent to pursue the top jobs. Under the grant, higher education professionals will participate in four days of culturally relevant, intensive training at perhaps fittingly Cal Poly Pomona, where Suzuki had been president.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She was the first African American to receive Library Journal's Librarian of the Year Award in 1995 and served as president of the American Library Association from 2003 to 2004. Through its grants, the Foundation seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive.

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Community College: The Right Path and the Right Foot

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the Community College Research Center, “ the cumulative amount owed after 12 years is an estimated $10,300 per student who started at public two-year college in 2003-04 (for all entrants, not just borrowers). For public four-year entrants it ’ s nearly $20,000. For those starting at for-profit colleges, it ’ s $13,000.”

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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. There is also an effort to increase equity.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.” From 1998 to 2003, Floyd served the university before going on to lead the University of Missouri and Washington State University. Across campus, there’s the school’s college for student success, which is named after the first Black alumna, Dr.

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A Community Vision: 2022 Fradkin Legacy Award Winners

Scholarship America

As marketing and grants director Barry C. We are very proud to have grown from $2,000 in 2003, to $38,000 in 2022 to reach $500,000 given to Colonie Central High School students.”. The Dollars for Scholars awards nine renewable scholarships each year, each of which are matched up to $1,000 by partner colleges in the region.

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Leadership at All Levels of Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

Bringing Federal-Level Higher Ed Experience Back to the Community President Sacks’ shared how federal-level experience gave her a different perspective as a college president: “I understand federal grants better than many of my colleagues. And that got us the grant. Sometimes that collaborative approach will be more successful.”