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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. Truly universal transferability would require faculty buy-in and better digital tools. At the same time, faculty helped us navigate practical roadblocks.

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Reimagining Black Male Success in Education: Moving from Marginalization to Empowerment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Adriel Hilton In many educational institutions, Black males are burdened with the label of "problem" rather than "promise" (Howard, 2013). Additionally, Dr. Whitaker is an inaugural faculty fellow at Vanderbilt University for the Initiative for Race, Research, and Justice. 2015; Harper & Davis, III, 2012).

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Business and Health Professions Lead Faculty Growth as Humanities Decline, CUPA-HR Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report, "Two Decades of Change: Faculty Discipline Trends in Higher Education," analyzes data from CUPA-HR's Faculty in Higher Education Survey from 2003-04 to 2023-24, revealing significant shifts in faculty size, tenure status, and salaries across academic disciplines. Business also showed robust growth of 20.8%

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UC Riverside Names Dr. S. Jack Hu as New Chancellor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wilcox, who was profiled in the June 5th issue of Diverse , has led UC Riverside since 2013 and oversaw significant campus growth, including the addition of schools of medicine and public policy and the university's 2023 invitation to join the prestigious Association of American Universities. Drake, in announcing the selection.

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Dr. Wendy Cadge, Bryn Mawr College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Carol Ann Tomlinson, University of Virginia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Carol Ann Tomlinson taught in public schools for 21 years and was later a faculty member at the University of Virginia for 30 years. Her two lives as an educator have enabled her to develop, pilot, research, refine, and share a model for differentiating instruction in todays diverse classrooms.

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Remembering Dr. Willis Braswell Sheftall Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

F rom 1999 to 2013, he was the chief academic officer at Morehouse and served as acting president in 2013. Born in in Macon, Georgia, Sheftall became known as an economist with a particular interest in the economics of higher education, local public finance, and U.S. Economic History.

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