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 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. Liann Herder can be reached at lherder@diverseeducation.com.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

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

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

JULY 23, 2024

Dr. Darren Masier, an assistant professor of human resource management at Meredith College, worked as a graduate student at Poe Hall between 2009 and 2013. Independent testing is slated to begin the week of July 29 and last for one week. Masier, through The Law Offices of F.

Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Their Passions Donors continue to prioritize Education in the top three giving categories (Religion, Human Services and Education). billion and $516.65 billion in charitable giving, respectively. surging racial unrest, recent Supreme Court decisions, electoral politics, etc.), are more curious about our case than ever before.

Database

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. Over the last decade, Thompson’s resonant affirmation has invigorated ways of embracing the full humanity of these girls and women, including their joys and aspirations.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

During this time, she co-directed a new nationwide program, “Preparing Future Faculty,” an initiative to stimulate the reform of doctoral education for the professoriate. From the start of her career, she has focused on improving access to education for underserved populations.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, SACNAS remains rooted in a belief that science cannot be properly taught, researched, or applied to human beings’ daily existence unless scientists bring some essential parts of their background and worldview to that sphere. “They were interweaving cultural identity with the journeys people were on.”

Mathematics

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.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

He became president of GateWay Community College in MCCCD in 2013. And I said, ‘No, you’re just a human being that’s never gone to college.’” Terry Calaway, who was serving as president of CAC at the time, to enroll in the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin. There, Gonzales earned an Ed.D.

Community college

The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. 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.

Teaching

The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students. In higher education, we throw these acronyms around, and we assume that our audience knows what we're talking about.

Financial aid

Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Postsecondary institutions are uniquely positioned to support a demographic of students who experience the greatest risk of first onset of mental illness as a result of the developmental trajectory of many common mental illnesses (within the 16-24 age window; Jones, 2013). Background. Stress, Mental Health and Learning. 2009; Kirmayer et al.,

Mental health

The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 9, 2024

Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline A Conversation With Aimée Eubanks Davis, Founder and CEO of Braven Elana Thu, 08/15/2024 - 18:01 Image College to Career First Generation Weekly Wisdom Braven is an inspiring organization: a nonprofit that partners with higher education institutions to guide their graduates into the workforce.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

From March 2013 to 2018, he served as president of The Andrew W. Two prominent Black academicians--Drs. I am proud to join President Biden in recognizing these distinguished leaders for their outstanding contributions to our nation’s cultural life.” Mellon Foundation.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Middleton Social media is neither honest about nor friendly toward Black males in P-12 and higher education. In the P-12 education system, Black males have lower graduation rates in high school, are underrepresented in accelerated programs (e.g., Hines, Donna Y. Ford, Edward C. Fletcher Jr, Renae D. Mayes & Tanya J.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Gavin Newsom Undocumented students in California’s higher education system may soon be able to get a job in California’s public universities and colleges. Dr. Jennifer Nájera Another step forward came in 2013 with the passing of the California Dream Act, which made undocumented students eligible to apply for state financial aid.

Financial aid

The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 24, 2023

I've dedicated my life to helping more and more diverse students be more successful in the world of higher education so that they have more opportunities in their lives. He was inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association’s Hall of Fame in 2013.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Ever since 2013, voting rights has been under even more attack than in our last 20 to 30 years, that's when the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act,” Austin-Hillery said. When you are talking about civil and human rights and racial justice, you have to understand that all of these issues are interconnected.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Allen spent about a year in corporate law before returning to higher education because, in her “heart and soul,” she was an academic. And I also work in the area of bioethics and the law, with a special focus on genetics, human reproduction, and mental health. Allen was vice provost for faculty at Penn from 2013 to 2020.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Massey also co-facilitates the Binghamton Human Sexualities Lab with three colleagues. We published this in the Journal of GLBT Family Studies (2013), and we wrote a press release. Undergraduate students engage in research about a wide range of subjects including the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) History Project.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 19, 2024

and his client Dr. Darren Masier, an assistant professor of human resource management at Meredith College, had petitioned for an independent examination of the potential cancer cluster at Poe Hall at North Carolina State University (NC State). Masier spent hours within Poe Hall as a graduate student and assistant between 2009 and 2013.

Communication