Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2025

When he took the reins of the men-only historically Black college in 2018, the institution was still struggling with declining enrollment that began with the 2008 recession. Some students and faculty criticized the decision because of Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. He has served as dean and William R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Dr. Alvin Poussaint For more than five decades, Poussaint served as a beacon of change at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he worked as faculty associate dean for student affairs and founding director of the HMS Office of Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs. Dr. George Q.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lumina, a private nonprofit working to increase learning opportunities for all after high school, has been tracking credential and degree attainment for adults from 25 to 64 years of age since 2008. In 2008, only one state had set a degree or certificate attainment goal for its own population: Hawaii.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This requires intentionality and assessing all aspects to safeguard what is best about higher education: students, faculty, and staff who are different but learning, disagreeing, and growing for the betterment of society and self.” Dr. Barbara J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dr. Michele Perkins In the suit, Dr. Perkins –who led the school from 2008-2022 before becoming chancellor in September 2022 – claims she was unexpectedly released by the school during an Apr. 4 online meeting. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Clark, Binghamton University as well as so many others who have supported and helped me along the way Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Most things can wait. Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Clark, Binghamton University as well as so many others who have supported and helped me along the way Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Most things can wait. Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. Since joining Lumina in 2008, she has served as a strategy officer, director of equity and inclusion, and director of impact and research. Dr. Susan D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Barack Obama in 2008, he said. He has been involved in local elections but has also been involved in state and national elections as well. Back in 2000, he was policy director for Sen. Bill Bradley’s presidential campaign, a position he held again for Sen. And in 2006, he served as general counsel for Cory Booker’s Newark mayoral election.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I Developing individual supports for each student.” “It is estimated that over 7 million people speak Spanish in Texas,” says Rueda-Acedo, who from 2005–13 was the sole faculty member. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

This can include institutionally (faculty / staff) supported student groups (e.g. cultural and racial or ethnic community groups; LGBTQ2S+ spaces and organizing groups; physical spaces for Indigenous students, faculty and staff; peer mentorship opportunities and programming supporting unique needs of students with disabilities).

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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

Even more impressively, there has been a 4% improvement in completion rates when compared to the fall 2008 cohort. 9% increase in six-year completion rates for students who started in fall 2015 compared to fall 2016. rate for students starting in fall 2009, compared to 52.4% for students starting in fall 2020.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2023

He suggested that changes on the faculty side might be as easy as finding the best instructors to teach the accelerator courses: “When we offered these courses for the first time, summer of 2021, to my knowledge, it was the first time that Georgia State ever offered course sections where every student in the course had previously failed the course.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

I may not be able to make the staff happy because I need to do this for faculty and students, or whatever the case may be. Number two, I’d served on that campus from 2008 until 2011 and loved it dearly. The vice presidents have responsibility for their respective areas. The students are looking out. It was heartbreaking.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

In the few weeks since announcing her candidacy for president, Vice President Kamala Harris has ignited a level of hope and optimism not observed within the American electorate since Barack Obama’s run for president in 2008. For the more than five decades now, I have had a front row seat as an observer of developments at HBCUs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Faculty can find curricular and instructional resources for sections of courses and entire courses for degrees, licensures, and credentials to prepare future and current professionals to be culturally competent with their Black students and other students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

To note, Black males have the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

If faculty and staff are not listed here, they are non-confidential. Al, Risk of Unwanted Sex for College Women: Evidence for a Red Zone , Journal of American College Health (2008). Those who are non-confidential are required to share some information with OIE and can also provide support. Rainn.org, 2021. PAVE.org, 2020.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

If faculty and staff are not listed here, they are non-confidential. Al, Risk of Unwanted Sex for College Women: Evidence for a Red Zone, Journal of American College Health (2008). Those who are non-confidential are required to share some information with OIE and can also provide support. Rainn.org, 2021. PAVE.org, 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

In 2008, he was a board member for the Obama presidential transition with general responsibility for healthcare, education, and immigration. He also held senior positions in five presidential campaigns, serving as policy director for Michael Dukakis; and senior policy adviser for Al Gore, Howard Dean, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.

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