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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

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Sabree discovered that huge educational gaps existed in transfer rates for this population at community colleges across the nation (Harper, 2009). Others mentioned that faculty made it hard for them or seemed only interested in earning a paycheck.

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Hospital Honors Trailblazing Surgeon With Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D. Outpatient Center

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Endowed Scholarship Fund for minority medical students in 2009. I certainly think that the Black Lives Matter movement was a powerful influence on the institution, in terms of interacting with its own history of racism,” said Dr. Angus Burgin, history department faculty and member of the Diverse Names and Narratives project.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

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Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009. Sponsored research awards tripled and more than 325 tenure-track faculty members were hired.

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Only Within Their Own Institutions, Are Black Scholars without Honor!

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Whitaker), shares his experiences of dealing with dishonor and racism, within his professional settings, when he writes: “In my own experience within the academy, I have also experienced The Look from faculty and staff colleagues. For example, on one occasion a Vice-Provost asked me to share my research agenda at a faculty meeting.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

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Building pipelines After attending undergraduate and graduate school, Thompson built a career as a professor, administrator, and researcher/writer before joining the CPE in 2009 as senior vice president for academic affairs. He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018. A framework was built.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” Growing the diversity of the faculty is among the institution’s priorities, and CEED’s graduate student programming contributes candidates.

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Franklin & Marshall College Names Dr. Andrew Rich as 17th President

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Rich also led a transformative fundraising campaign that generated over $85 million in new investments for scholarships, student services, faculty positions, and academic initiatives. Truman Scholarship Foundation from 2011 to 2019, where he oversaw the prestigious federal program supporting future public service leaders.