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Community College Leader Dr. Walter Bumphus to Step Down After Transformative Era

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2013, Bumphus was awarded the Diverse Champions award by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. His achievements have been widely recognized, including receiving the ACCT Marie Y. Martin CEO of the Year Award and the 2021 Baldridge Foundation's Award for Leadership Excellence in Education.

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Nandi Mehta - Soccer

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mehta was a 2013 and 2014 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and a Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society inductee. A member of the womens soccer team, she was named co-captain in 2014 and 2015. Shes also pursuing a Kellogg School of Management Undergraduate certificate in managerial analytics.

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Carol Ann Tomlinson, University of Virginia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2013, she has been ranked in the top 20 of Education Weeks Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings of the 200 University-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about schools and schooling, and in the top 5 voices in Curriculum.

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Dr. Wendy Cadge, Bryn Mawr College

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She was also a Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees (2014-2019) and co-chair of the Faculty Governance Task Force (2017-2019).

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How Being a Mother and Academic Helped Me Fix Higher Education’s Transfer Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2013, the University implemented the Pathways initiative which established the seamless transfer of general education courses across its undergraduate colleges. The purpose of an integrated university system is to offer an array of options for students which transfer seamlessly across all colleges.

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UNC Chancellor Dr. Kevin M. Guskiewicz Appointed President of Michigan State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2013, Time magazine named him one of 18 “innovators and problem-solvers that are inspiring change in America” in 2013. During his time at UNC, he founded the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center; led the school’s $1.2

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UNCF, Steve Fund, and TMCF Partner for National Initiative to Support Mental Health at Black Colleges and Universities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More than 60% of students met criteria for one or more mental health problems in 2021, an almost 50% increase since 2013. The initiative is a response to the declining mental health of U.S. college students.