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Dr. Anne S. Pruitt-Logan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.)

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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

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Despite other opportunities available to him, he decided to pursue a degree in mathematics secondary education. 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 For Dr. Steven R.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Thats the West Africaninspired name that Gates and several close colleagues bestowed upon the geometric diagrams they use to represent mathematical relationships between certain particles and their yet-to-be-discovered superpartners. I create mathematics that nobody else has created before me.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

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gifted and talented); conversely, they are significantly overrepresented in special education, and in-school discipline and suspension rates (Ford & Moore, 2013; Hines et al., In the P-12 education system, Black males have lower graduation rates in high school, are underrepresented in accelerated programs (e.g.,