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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For comparison, Black students and white students saw decreases of 8.5% During the same time frame, Hispanic students have increasingly comprised more and more of the recipients of undergraduate engineering degrees, with a 94.3% On the graduate level, Latino students were 9.4% in 2003 – and 7.5% in 2003 – and 7.5%

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

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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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First African American Dean Blazes Trail for Northwestern Music

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Montgomery, who joined Northwestern in 2003, said she was also the first African American dean at the University of Kansas, serving in its School of Fine Arts. When I was a grade school student, music classes (i.e., There are many different types of mentors,” Montgomery said. “I

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Scholar-Practitioner Helps to Promote Inclusivity at Alma Mater

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“I remember riding the bus home from work one day and I saw someone with the Central Michigan University bumper sticker, and so I applied because I recognized the bumper sticker,” says Patterson-Stephens, who graduated in 2003 from CMU with a degree in sociology. Making sure that all students feel safe has been an essential part of her work.

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

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“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. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N.

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A 40th Anniversary Love Story: About My Favorite Magazine

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I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. Dr. Shaun Harper I was editor-in-chief of The Student Voice , ASU’s official undergraduate student newspaper for two years.

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A Community Vision: 2022 Fradkin Legacy Award Winners

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Dr. Irving Fradkin, had a simple but profound idea: if everyone in his community gave just a dollar to a scholarship fund, it would be enough to help every student in the community attend college. 15,000 Student Support Award: Gettysburg Area Dollars for Scholars. In 1958, an optometrist in Fall River, Mass.,