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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As associate provost at the college, Ill admit I was biased but even two decades of experience in higher education couldnt fully prepare me for her struggle to transfer credits. Through collaboration, more than 300 courses, or blocks of courses, are now universally equivalent to each other across all colleges. Dr. Alicia M.

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A New Page from the Playbook of Violence, Deception, and Cowardice in the Hazing Death of Caleb Wilson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2013, Michael Deng, and other Baruch College Pi Delta Psi Fraternity aspirants, were subjected to the brutal glass ceiling ritual in the Pocono Mountains. Campus leaders, advisors, and national orgs must collaboratively support college chapters facing this burden.

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Another Page from the Playbook of Violence, Deception, and Cowardice in the Hazing Death of Caleb Wilson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2013, Michael Deng, and other Baruch College Pi Delta Psi Fraternity aspirants, were subjected to the brutal glass ceiling ritual in the Pocono Mountains. Campus leaders, advisors, and national orgs must collaboratively support college chapters facing this burden.

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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gates was one of a dozen scientists who received the honor in 2013 for the year 2011 in a ceremony that had been postponed due to the 2012 election. Despite the lack of higher education, Gates says his forbears had a certain knack for mathematics. If he had made it, man, that would have been big for our family, Gates says.

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National Junior College Athletic Association Head Coaches Reveal Athletic Equity is Present

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Regardless of the reason, from comparison to training, or overcoming adversity, “Collegiate athletics have been a part of the American culture since the 1800s” (Lewis, 2013). Riann Mullis Imagine going through a typical work week without a colleague or coworker inserting an analogy or anecdote from sports into the conversation.

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The Erosion of DEI in Higher Education: A Threat to Progress and National Strength

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. Our higher education institutions must reflect this reality and prepare students for the world they will inherit.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.