Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

Robin DiAngelo is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington. In 2011 she coined the term White Fragility in an academic article which has influenced the international dialogue on race. In addition, she holds two Honorary Doctorates.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

In May 2011, Dr. Cheryl Davenport Dozier stepped in as Savannah State University’s interim president. But as for her new path in higher education, Dozier said during a 2011 news briefing: “I’ve been charged to come down and lead and that’s what I’ll do.”

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MARCH 19, 2024

The Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs (PPWSA) study was first proposed by Ralph Newell at Diverse as a partnership with ACPA-College Student Educators International in 2011. Student Affairs staff and students from Elon University, one of this year's honorees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? When the first edition of what was then called Black Issues In Higher Education was published on March 15, 1984, it was two days before my 14th birthday, and I was still adjusting to ninth grade in a public high school after attending a private school from second grade to eight grade.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is his second time serving in the role, initially from 2005 to 2011. Overton James T. Overton has been named chief of the police department at Delaware State University. Overton holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Delaware State and a master’s degree in human resource management from Wilmington College in Delaware.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

Gordon Chair for Policy Research and Evaluation at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). In this new role, he is expected to guide policy research at the assessment organization with the goal of advancing equitable access to quality education and fair assessment for learners. Dr. Michael T. Nettles, previously held the Edmund W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2024

He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2011 until 2022, representing District 19. James White James White has been appointed vice president of governmental affairs and civic engagement at Texas Southern University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Brooks continued his exploration of the vast African diaspora in 2011, alongside other internationally known scholars, as the general editor of the 1,600-page African American Almanac (Cengage Gale, 2011).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. But we need to look closer at the data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Holding students back a year may have its benefits, according to a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Nicholas Hartlep, the Robert Charles Billings Chair in Education at Berea College and a former elementary school teacher. Literacy is really important.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In 2011, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on sport-related concussions. Serving as the chancellor of an Association of American Universities institution, he has navigated the complexities of higher education with a strategic vision that has led to institutional growth and success,” said Dr. Jerlando F.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

VanDerveer has established herself as one of the top coaches in the history of collegiate and international women’s basketball and has been inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2011) and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame (2002).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

The well-known political figure was a state representative in the Georgia General Assembly, having served as minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives 2011-2017. Walters Endowed Chair and we are pleased to welcome her to Howard University.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Banks to serve as president. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2023

David Radwin The brief, " Redrawing the Starting Line: Advancing Equity in Adult Learners’ Developmental Education Outcomes ", compared transfer-level English and math course completion rates between adult community college students – those age 25 or older – and their younger, traditional-age student peers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For years, advocates for higher education in prison programs worked to see Pell Grants reintroduced for incarcerated individuals. We’re looking at this unique intersection of two really big systems—the correctional system and the higher education system meet at college-in-prison programs,” said Pokornowski.

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MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. Students studying in the summer may be more likely to remain engaged with their education and can progress to a degree more quickly. They may also avoid summer learning loss.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

The data shows that, from 2011 through 2020, there was a 39% drop in Black male enrollment in colleges across the United States. This decline should be alarming and open our eyes to a deeper issue within our educational system. Dual enrollment students provide colleges with another opportunity to become a bridge to higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

While hip-hop may not often be referenced as tantamount with higher education, many artists have referenced the academe within their works. John’s University where he graduated magna cum laude , higher education has found its way into the lyrical content of the genre. Dr. Jeremy C. His research revolves around Black mentorship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

2011 academy graduate Melissa McCafferty also accused Sulmasy of verbal harassment and of texting her that he would only write her a law school recommendation if she sent him photographs of herself, telling her he had always loved her foot tattoo.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. “I like the problem-solving,” Allen says. “I To me, it felt bigger.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

He led the Tide to nine SEC championships and won national titles in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2020. Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne called Saban “one of the greatest coaches of all time, in any sport.” Saban led LSU to SEC championships in 2001 and 2003, when he won his first national title.

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MARCH 10, 2025

The recent cancellation of critical postsecondary studies conducted by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) will have dire effects on our understanding of the realities of todays college students especially those who are veterans, parents, working, or first-generation. No other sources are as robust in this regard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

The unanticipated ferocity of the scripted efforts to eliminate DEI on higher education campuses has caused numerous institutions to reverse their previous commitments to a set of “core values” that were intended to evolve their environments and structures into settings that were more welcoming to and supportive of underrepresented constituencies.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

During her tenure, the college has become a leader in educational innovation, workforce training and economic development. In the spring of 2011, Thornton was appointed co-chair of the 21st Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges, a national task force convened by the American Association of Community Colleges.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Forsyth’s coaching career is gilded with accolades, including the NGCA Coaches Hall of Fame in 2011; WGCA’s National Coach of the Year in 2004; and Golfweek National Coach of the Year in 2011. It just was a really natural evolution honestly."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Sethuraman Panchanathan The report, “ Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities 2023 ,” is a federal attempt to investigate diversity trends in STEM employment and education. NCSES is part of the NSF. "Our population, the report found.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Before going deeper with our assertions, we (the authors that pinned this piece) also acknowledge that dishonor, is not the sole experience for Black scholars and sdministrators, who serve in higher education. Higher Education is a very challenging environment for anyone but particularly for scholars and administrators of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Continuing trends all the way back to 2011, Asians continue to have the highest six-year college completion rates (74.8%), followed by white students (68.5%). Black students saw a 0.5% decrease – 43.9% to 43.4% – and Native American students faced the largest decrease of the period, 2%, from 49.5% gap compared to 2008’s 7% gap.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

A published poet, Jones revitalized the press’s TriQuarterly imprint, developing its award-winning poetry list with acquisitions including Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney, winner of the 2011 National Book Award; Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith, winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Forest Primeval (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

He’s why Americans should have hope for higher education and advocate for more investments in leaders who walk their talk.” After he graduated from UC Santa Cruz, Curry landed a job at University of California Irvine’s Center for Educational Partnerships, doing outreach at Compton Unified School District, helping students go to college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Individuals committed to community colleges and the vital role they play in American higher education continue to advocate for the students and the institutions that serve them. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.” Dr. Everrett A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The four-day event connects educators, both in and outside Achieving the Dream’s (ATD) network of over 300 community colleges, working to close attainment gaps. Stout characterized the work to close equity gaps in higher education as Sisyphean, constantly pushing the rock uphill, a brutal battle against gravity that always seeks the summit.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Despite this insulation, I can’t say that I ever felt a deep, profound sense of belonging and servingness during my education. Gina Ann Garcia is leading the way in centering servingness, which is a multidimensional, culturally enhancing approach to educating Latine students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In October 2022, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a new report where, again, Black students lagged behind white students on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) also known as the Nation’s Report Card. Years later, our experiences still haunt us.

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OCTOBER 23, 2022

Under Williams's leadership, the 2011 Big Ten football championship game received the 2012 SportsTravel Award for “Best New Sports Event.” She also served on the NCAA staff in Indianapolis for two years as director of the NCAA Division I women's basketball championship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

ODUPA conducted its general elections at an August meeting in Shenzhen, China, where the 2011 World University Games were played. O’Meally will serve four years as vice president of its board.

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