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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams’s parents had met during their time at Southern and A&M College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His first ambition after college was to make money, and he entered the corporate world and earned his MBA from Fontbonne University. Everyone didn’t feel that way.”

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Scholars of Urban Education Gather for Solutions-Based Conference

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That's been a requirement for Lewis, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the executive director of the university's Urban Education Collaborative, the convener of the conference which first launched in 2014. Dr. Chance W. But that's the reality."

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The Power of One

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. The organization offers professional development through webinars, internship placement assistance, and mentor matching.

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A Decade Later: The Flint Water Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He was to begin his role as an associate professor of social science at Kettering University in the heart of the city and just feet from the glittering Flint River. “We That tap was being supplied by the Flint River, a change that occurred on April 25, 2014. So, we began using the tap water for drinking and other purposes.”

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. Advising and coaching represent foundational practices colleges and universities use to support student success.

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Partnership and Policy for Academic Advising

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And I think that might be your most important department at the university. And so, really having a holistic mindset that whatever those very real barriers are, not their easy answers, the university is gonna do whatever is in its power to help overcome them so students can pursue their dreams and cross that finish line.".

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Presented with two cases about race-conscious admissions – one regarding the University of North Carolina and the other involving Harvard University — the conservative-leaning court ruled along partisan lines that the two schools’ affirmative action programs violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. I love this place.