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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

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in educational leadership. Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance.

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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

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When you think about our history, were the first community college in the state of California whose accreditation was revoked, and to go from that in 2006 to be where were at now and to be on the cutting edge, that tells you that transformation can happen, but transformation can happen in communities where we look like the students.

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Reimagining Black Male Success in Education: Moving from Marginalization to Empowerment

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This shift in perception must also extend beyond K-12 education to colleges and universities. we examine how Black male students and professionals in higher education face discrimination, microaggressions, and Racial Battle Fatigue. In another one of our op-eds, “Is the Black Man the Bogeyman in the Ivory Tower? "

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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

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I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. What better place than Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

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NIH Grant to Study Infertility, Health Among Women of Mexican Heritage

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The goal of the study, which is co-funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Office of Research on Women's Health, divisions of the National Institutes of Health, is to help improve health outcomes through early screenings and interventions.

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Brown Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Celebrates 10 Years

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When Brown University released its landmark 2006 report documenting the institution’s historical involvement in slavery, many of its recommendations were one-time fixes: revising the university’s official history, creating memorials, and the like.

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Jacqie McWilliams

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McWilliams spent nine years at the NCAA, managing NCAA championships, to include serving as director of the Division I women’s basketball tournament from 2006-2009 and the Division I men’s basketball tournament from 2007-2012.