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LEAD Fund Mourns Passing of DEI Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Members of the Fund for Leadership, Equity, Access and Diversity ( LEAD Fund) are mourning the death of their board chair, Dr. Christopher A. Metzler’s family announced that he “passed away in his beloved home in Grenada” March 23. Dr. Christopher A.

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Kudos to Black/Diverse Issues for Four Decades of Truth, Insight, Vision, and Integrity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Partly because conservatives were successful in assigning negative implications to the term “affirmative action,” the expression diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) came into use to describe and facilitate processes that resulted in greater access and participation for people from marginalized communities. Dr. William B.

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University of Maryland Reckons with the Past

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The project plays counter to dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion, to this desire to silence, as we try to create a more diverse, equitable society,” said Hughes-Watkins. These stories are complicated and often traumatizing, Hughes-Watkins said, but their discovery can play a critical role in healing a racially stratified world.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. All Latino students from the Fall 2014 cohort graduated with a B.A.

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Proactive Student Success Culture Improves Outcomes for All at the University of Cincinnati

Civitas Learning

Amid this steady decline, the University of Cincinnati continues improving retention and graduation rates, setting enrollment records, achieving diversity goals, and closing equity gaps. percentage point increase in overall six-year graduation rates from 2008-2014 a 13.5 increase in first-year student enrollment from 2021 to 2022 a 1.9

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Dear David 2.0: Unmasking the College Board’s Profiteering at Educators’ Expense

The Counseling Geek

Between 2011 and 2022, College Board’s 990 filings indicate that they have earned a net income of $812,460,312 with only 2 of the years indicating a deficit income (2014 and 2020). In 2014 – they announced large scale changes to their exam structure and scoring system which I am assuming caused a large scale increase in costs.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Giving all of our students access to contemporary literature that centers Black youth perspectives is not only important in decolonizing literature education but also in presenting a holistic view of Black childhood. Suggestions for closing the achievement gap and otherwise improving the achievement of Black males are provided for educators.

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