Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

Under the guidance and visionary leadership of our current President and CEO, Dr. Michael Lomax , ICB officially launched in 2006. It brings together presidents, provosts, faculty, funders, policymakers, and industry leaders to address big questions facing HBCUs. At the end of the day, UNITE isn't just a conference; it's a movement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. In many units, the scholarship alone or largely determines whether the faculty member receives a favorable evaluation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino. As you work with people closely, you know that you’re making a difference,” says Michael Heim, director of CAMP and of WSU’s Migrant Education Student Access & Support. are Hispanic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander is very accessible, very approachable for students,” says Dr. Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. It is providing greater access for students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds. Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The school ultimately became a satellite campus of the El Camino Community College District in 2006 but has since regained its accreditation and its independence. It launched a popular Farmer’s Market on campus last year, providing each student with $20 a week to access fresh foods and vegetables.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Between 2006 and 2021, Black student enrollment dropped from 7% to 4% and Indigenous student enrollment dropped from 1% to 0.1%. The Steve Fund and many national experts anticipate that eliminating racial considerations in admissions will dramatically reduce the number of students of color in selective higher education institutions.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

In the first blog post in this series , I discussed the necessity of a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. Although these requirements are unavoidable burdens, I worked with faculty committees to identify data that would also be usable by them as they educated students.

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