Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 11, 2025
Bellisario College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University since 2014 and has been a member of the Penn State faculty since 2003, was announced as the 10th president of Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. A first-generation college student, Hardin earned a Ph.D. Hardin will begin work at Quinnipiac on July 1.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 17, 2025
When Jordan began her tenure in 2014, her top priority was increasing enrollment and improving the institution’s financial status. “As “We demonstrated to the country that we’re thinking about the highest form of undergraduate education in a way that is inclusive of everyone,” says Jordan in an interview with Diverse.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 6, 2025
She was also a Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees (2014-2019) and co-chair of the Faculty Governance Task Force (2017-2019). She is an expert in contemporary American religion, especially related to religion in public institutions, religious diversity, religious and moral aspects of healthcare, and religion and immigration.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
When LaShelle Williams-Franklin arrived at Howard University as a first-generation college student from Cleveland, Ohio, she had her academic LaShelle Williams-Franklin plan perfectly mapped out. As a political science major with dreams of becoming an attorney, she received her four-year academic roadmap during orientation.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 13, 2023
“As a student, as a scholar, as a Black student, as an FLI [first-generation, low-income] student, it was everything that I needed for it to be,” said Kiara Gilbert, who had Glaude as her junior paper and senior thesis adviser. “I In 2014, Diverse named Glaude an Emerging Scholar.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
In researching and publishing this report, UMD has joined over 100 institutions across six different countries, from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Ivy League institutions as an established chapter of Universities Studying Slavery (USS), founded in 2014 at the University of Virginia (UVA). They’re not those schools anymore.
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