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Scholar-Practitioner Helps to Promote Inclusivity at Alma Mater

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nearly twenty years later, Patterson-Stephens returned to her alma mater in 2021 to become CMU’s Vice President for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging after honing her leadership skills at several other colleges and universities across the nation. She is the first Black woman to ever serve as a vice president at the university.

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Having an advocate or mentor is critical We found that the presence of a mentor in the life of the trustee was critical to the participants’ successful selection or election as trustee. Research revealed that all but one of these award-winning colleges had a board-influenced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandate.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The cautionary advice dispatched by his mentors when Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz was a college student dented his confidence and, on several occasions, tripped him up. A number of them mentor budding scientists of color at a time when the scientific sphere remains overwhelmingly white and male. of the population.

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Fighting Back: Implicit Bias, Micro-aggressions, and Micro-resistance

Clair Kamp Dush

I assumed a student who was Black was less involved in our graduate program due to a lack of passion and skill, not a lack of the program reaching out to her or creating an environment of inclusiveness. They help targeted people “cope with micro-aggressions” ( Ganote, Cheung, Souza ; Irey, 2013, pp.

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Inside the UIA’s 2023 Annual Report

The University Innovation Alliance

Diffusion to the Field Because the UIA is intentionally a small organization, we strive to diffuse our outcomes across the higher ed sector, elevating student success strategies, insights, and leadership examples to redirect collective attention toward inclusion, collaboration, and innovation.

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University of Virginia President Emeritus Dr. John T. Casteen III Dies at 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. As a teacher, mentor, colleague and friend, he was beloved."