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Universal Write Publications Marks 20-Year Milestone

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Universal Write Publications (UWP) was founded in 2004 by Dr. Ayo Sekai and has flourished from a passion project publishing fiction and children’s books into a respected publisher of rigorous, peer-reviewed academic literature.

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Mitchell Hamline School of Law Names New President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But Davidson began her career in higher education in 2004, spending two years teaching at Davidson College. She founded a clinical lab where she supervised students who prepared estate plans for low-income elderly people in the community. She held a clerkship at the D.C. Superior Court in Washington, D.C.,

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

LĂłpez is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, LĂłpez taught and mentored youth. Through and through. Dr. Ruth M. Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education. Dr. Ruth M.

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School Closures Close the Door to Student Dreams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Between June 2004 and June 2020, almost 12,000 institutions of higher education closed their doors. Some of those institutions closed in an orderly fashion—students, faculty and staff were given ample warning, and arrangements for continuing a student’s education at another institution, teach-out plans, are made.

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Panelists Debate Solutions for Nigerian Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Macarthur Foundation in 2004, focuses on developing the capacity of higher education institutions in the West African nation. Folawe Omikunle, the CEO of Teach for Nigeria, agreed. The discussions made up the bulk of the 2023 Nigeria Higher Education Forum, a morning-long event put on by the Nigeria Higher Education Forum (NHEF).

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Calls for Change at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One statistic shows that, between 2004 and 2018, the number of Black professors at Penn State stayed roughly the same, from 109 professors to 112. The resulting report, More Rivers to Cross Part 1 , released in January 2020, contained 96 pages of quantitative analysis on the paucity of Black professors and their stagnating numbers.

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