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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2009, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University in New Orleans, an HBCU and the only Black Catholic institution in the world. In his sophomore year of college, Williams had begun to struggle academically and financially, but the leadership and faculty at Xavier gave him the opportunity to continue his education.

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014). However, research has demonstrated a clear underrepresentation of minority community college trustees (Moltz, 2009) with no progress being made in hiring African American administrators (Levin, Walker et al.,

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Moving the Needle on Graduation Rates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are the four pillars of transformation, ingredients critical to the mission of Complete College America (CCA), the advocacy organization working to improve college graduation rates since 2009. She role models that leadership for us.” It’s always, ‘Why couldn’t we do this? Or try this? Why do 80, when I could do 100?’

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Conference Welcomes New Members Fighting for Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. When Harper College joined ATD in 2009, their graduation rate was a mere 14%.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Thompson praises his team for their impact, and they praise his leadership.

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HE4Good editorial principles: heterogeneity, care, and community

Catherine Cronin

This open access book, a collection of work by over 70 authors in 18 countries, offers ways of thinking, conceptualising and creating possibilities for (re)making higher education, focusing on futures that foreground inclusion, equity, social justice, care and sustainability. So, how did this belief translate into practice? link] brown, a.

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

The University Innovation Alliance

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. Faculty is a leadership role. I prefer to talk about leadership rather than administration, because administration connotes bureaucracy.