Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

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. F rom 1999 to 2013, he was the chief academic officer at Morehouse and served as acting president in 2013. Economic History.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2025

The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into George Mason University's Faculty Senate for passing a resolution supporting the institution's president, marking an unprecedented federal intrusion into faculty governance that has alarmed higher education advocates nationwide.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2025

In 2013, Thomas formally published the theory, accompanied by qualitative evidence, giving name and structure to a pattern now widely cited in DEI circles and HR offices alike. Constant leadership turnover means faculty and staff who ask hard questions are discarded, while less effective favorites remain protected.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

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.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2025

Twelve years ago, in his book Strategic Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education , DEI scholar and thought leader Dr. Damon A. Additionally, the rising cost of college tuition disproportionately affects students from lower-income families, further exacerbating the barriers to higher education.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

Casteen, who served as UVA's seventh president from 1990 to 2010, was honored by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education in 2013 with the prestigious Dr. John Hope Franklin Award for his exceptional commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher education.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Rich also led a transformative fundraising campaign that generated over $85 million in new investments for scholarships, student services, faculty positions, and academic initiatives. For more than 235 years, Franklin & Marshall has been a beacon for excellence in liberal arts education.

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

Smith-Jackson, a human factors engineer who has served as provost and executive vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at NC A&T since 2013, will assume her new role on August 1. Smith-Jackson said that her approach to higher education leadership is deeply rooted in personal experience and family values.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

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.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

jules While the raison d’etre of the syllabi has gone unchanged, aspects of society have evolved, and we find ourselves in the middle of a racial awakening since 2013 and the rise of the global Black Lives Matter Movement. Relatedly is the need for faculty to focus on labor acknowledgement which recognizes slavery and enslaved people.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The program will now begin administering a customized Black college module of the Health Minds Study, the most comprehensive research survey on mental health 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.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In 2013, Time magazine named him one of 18 “innovators and problem-solvers that are inspiring change in America” in 2013. In 2011, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on sport-related concussions.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

From a sample of over 560,000 first year, first time community college students and over 32,000 instructors in Texas between 2013 and 2020, researchers found that 77% of white students experienced a racial match. But we’re not seeing that shift in the faculty. In his team’s sample, 48% of the students were Hispanic and 11% were Black.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Among those ages 25–59 who are English majors, the median earnings of Black graduates in 2010–14 was $46,000 and the median for Latino grads in 2009-2013 was $48,000. Meanwhile, for English grads overall from 2009-2013, the median was $53,000, according to the report. in English. “[It

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Patterson-Stephens guided the development of CMU’s first strategic plan for diversity since 2012 and reinstated the Faculty and Staff of Color Alliance, which had remained inoperable since 2013. The Alliance works to support faculty and staff recruitment and retention at the university.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Decatur Decatur has been the school’s president for almost a decade, his tenure having begun in 2013. Under his leadership, the school made impressive gains in student body strength and diversity, financial aid resources, faculty breadth and distinction, and campus enhancements. “It Dr. Sean M. 6 message to the Kenyon community.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015).

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. It collects, analyzes, and reports comprehensive performance data.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

That’s how Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser became president of Colorado Mountain College (CMC) in 2013. She’s solidified the administration, faculty, and staff, which was previously prone to attrition. If you speak it into the world, it just might happen. Don’t be shy to say that’s a dream job.”

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

While shootings on campus are extremely rare, said Williamson, the mental health and wellbeing of students, faculty, and staff can be deeply impacted by these events, which is why it is crucial that institutions of higher education respond to these incidents.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The percentage of freshmen who are Black, Latinx, or Native nearly doubled between 2013 and 2021, and the share of first-generation students climbed nine points to 21 percent. Yale also became more financially accessible: the number of incoming freshmen who qualify for Pell grants doubled from his first year to 22% at present.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

University of La Verne President Dr. Devorah Lieberman is shown with graduating students in 2013. Lieberman has written and co-authored multiple books and articles relating to diversity, institutional transformation and issues affecting higher education. This includes creating new means for retention. Stay tuned.”

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

The chair was previously held by longtime STH faculty member Rev. The professorship honors King “by modeling the moral authority, prophetic vision of justice, peace, and love, ethical leadership, and global consciousness that he advocated for and embodied,” according to STH. Fluker, who retired from the position in 2020.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In 2016, Coast Guard attorneys recommended that Sulmasy be prosecuted in a military court-martial for conduct unbecoming an officer and willful dereliction of duty, however Coast Guard leaders rejected the recommendation.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

David Johns, NBJC; Dr. Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “In the words of Wilma Rudolph, ‘never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. Congressman from Maryland.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Before UVM, he helped launch the Amherst College Press in 2013 and led a consortium of libraries in creating the open-access Lever Press in 2016. This is particularly worrying for folks who are working at underfunded institutions, especially in the Global South.” Geffert himself has prior experience with o pen-access models.

Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Prior to joining the Ohio State faculty in 1979, becoming the university’s first African-American woman full professor, she served as professor of education at Case Western Reserve University and previously in positions as dean of students and dean of women at Fisk University and Albany (Ga.)

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

When Cashawn Thompson coined the hashtag #BlackGirlMagic in 2013, she lovingly acknowledged the beauty, labor, daring, and complexity of Black girls and women. Focused on educating working-class Black women to become skilled, self-employed service professionals, Burroughs and her college-educated faculty “resolved to find and train leaders.”

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Oh joined Ramapo in 2013. David Oh “I think that also leads to a lack of opportunities for people to play interesting roles [in the dramatic arts],” said Oh, noting the underrepresentation of Asians in popular American media.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The university has been nationally ranked as one of the top regional public institutions of higher education by U.S. She has championed an increase in the diversity of the faculty and the student body and oversaw the completion of a $40 million capital campaign, as well as the Soar to Greatness campaign, which garnered $88 million.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

He became president of GateWay Community College in MCCCD in 2013. But as the pandemic raged on and upended life for MCCCD students and faculty, Gonzales endeavored to stay focused on them. “I He’s very heartwarming,” said Frank Zamora, a recently retired division chair and faculty member at GateWay Community College. “He

Community college

EAB

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Blogs IGNITED 2023 sneak peek: Key trends shaping higher education today Each year, EAB creates a State of the Sector presentation, leveraging our global perspective to identify the big trends shaping higher education strategy and operational directions. The pandemic has only “poured fuel on the fire” according to U.S.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students. As professor of political science, Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors — the 1984 Walter J. As provost, she was responsible for a $1.5

Teaching

The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As we approach our ten-year anniversary of accelerating student success innovation across higher education to drive social and economic mobility nationwide, I am grateful and humbled that this movement has expanded and evolved to inspire so many institutions and student success leaders beyond the UIA.

Advising

The Advisor That Cares

AUGUST 26, 2023

Then, the advising and support units use a different system to invite students to appointments, request progress report updates from faculty, record interaction notes on services utilized, answer questions, and make support recommendations. Innovations in Education and Teaching International , 51 (3), 338–351. 2013, February 27).

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