Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Diane Finley, Prince George’s Community College; and Dr. Christine McDermott, Delaware State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Don’t stretch yourself out too thin. Learn how to say no as a junior faculty member but say it with poise and some grace.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. Through and through. Dr. Ruth M. Dr. Ruth M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In 2016, he was criticized when Yale decided not to remove the name of John C. Ultimately, I plan to return to the Yale faculty, work on some long-delayed writing and research projects, and renew my love of teaching and working with students while continuing to help with fundraising,” he wrote. Calhoun—a former U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They shared a common spirit in their separate spheres: to advance people of color through mentoring and teaching. He mentored generations of students and colleagues, from being one of only three Black faculty members and the first Black tenure-track professor at Indiana University to his long-time service at Howard University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Access and Inclusion; Associate to the President, University of Nebraska Jenkins has served as the University of Nebraska’s associate to the president and assistant vice president for diversity, access and inclusion since August of 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Students and faculty became aware that Cazenovia might have to close when it defaulted on a $25 million bank loan earlier this fall. Although prior to 2016, most higher ed closures were of for-profit institutions, Cazenovia is part of a shift in which small, non-profit colleges that rely on tuition revenue have been imperiled.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We We get students of color primarily through word-of-mouth and because of the fact that we have so many faculty members who are people of color,” Cummings says. We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. Online, 18.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

Michael Cunningham, Tulane University; Dr. Nghana Lewis, Tulane University; Dr. Colleen Capper, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Run your race and remember your why. Remember why you got into this. Dr. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.,

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The LTC Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

The Carleton TRIO/SSS staff have put together some great resources for faculty about how to acknowledge class in the classroom and helping students become self-regulated learners.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2016, she gained national notoriety after sharing her story of resilience and perseverance in her viral testimony “Don’t Quit, Anything Can Happen” video with over 900k views. Bring him to your community for faculty and staff trainings and to talk about all things related to mental health for men and People of Color.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

educational policy is a focus on using evidence, or data, to inform decisions about institutional and educator quality, budgetary decisions, and what and how to teach students” (3). Data driven decision-making in the era of accountability: Fostering faculty data cultures for learning. The Review of Higher Education, 40 (3), 391-426.

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Dr. Pérez’s passion for teaching led him to serve as a faculty member at Trinity’s Educational Studies Department, UCLA’s College Counseling Certification Program, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In addition, he was a visiting international faculty member at Rikkyo University in Japan. He holds a B.S.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Beginning in the fall of 2021, input was gathered from the OSU community, including students, faculty, staff, alumni, and stakeholders. Resources Boyer, E. Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. Jossey-Bass. Gavazzi, S. M., & Gee, E. Land grant universities for the future: Higher education for the public good.

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Catherine Cronin

AUGUST 24, 2022

The systems we rely on for teaching, learning and scholarship are both digital and datafied. We cannot talk about digital literacies, of course, without also considering data literacies. Better futures rely on engaging in this hard and hopeful work. Image source: John Tyson (Unsplash).

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

Academic Affairs is this incredible infrastructure for research, for teaching. But there are times in which the tables change and crisis emerges, something happens on your campus, something happens to a faculty member, something happens to a student, the world keeps spinning, and you can't stop. I think it's very valuable.

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EAB

MAY 25, 2023

Louis Slimak , Associate Provost for Curriculum and Assessment at West Virginia University (WVU), has done extensive work to overhaul the WVU’s program review process—and its culture around data more broadly—since his arrival in 2016. We’re also standing up a dedicated Edify dashboard for our faculty hiring process.

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Clair Kamp Dush

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

On Tuesday, in my first-year graduate proseminar , we had a session on implicit bias, micro-aggressions, and micro-resistance, and ironically, 2016 was the first year that I have included this session. Teach students about implicit bias, micro-aggressions, and micro-resistance. What is micro-resistance?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. Teacher Preparation Programs must implement culturally responsive strategies to recruit and retain Black males into teaching. Dr. Erik M.

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EAB

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Particular areas of focus for Art include: student access, diversity, inclusion, expression, and success; faculty diversity, inclusion, and expression; and institutional accountability and accreditation. Those very interests put forward by Harvard and UNC were rejected by the Court in the SFFA decision.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

College administrators and faculty have to be much more aggressive in reclaiming the importance of a liberal education, particularly in the wake of sweeping legislative efforts in some states to restrict academic freedom and to outlaw the teaching of some subjects. We need to start controlling the narrative.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Newson-Horst is a Spelman graduate who was impacted by Guy-Sheftall and other Spelman faculty who inspired her to take on similar challenges. The women’s and gender studies minor at North Carolina Central University was launched in the fall of 2016. The dean followed up, and an announcement was made at a faculty senate meeting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It was a small unit, with fewer than five professors, and Mwantuali, an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was the only faculty member of color. “It Only around 60% of Black faculty believe that faculty of color are treated fairly. I was just trying to see how things go.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

That’s in stark contrast to today’s rules, where “there are no jobs that are open to undocumented students,” he says, including academic jobs that “are very important to undergraduate students, such as being medical residents or teaching assistants. Dual rules This situation is equally upsetting for many members of the faculty and staff. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Teach Black males and their families about the hidden curriculum (e.g., To note, Black males have the highest unemployment rate in the nation. Involve families in the college-going process. Get them involved during meetings and offer professional development that educates and empowers. in order to be successful in college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

When Prothrow-Stith joined CDU in 2016, developing an independent medical program, the university’s long-held dream, became her job. To launch a new medical school years in the making took mobilizing a village of support that included faculty and staff. At CDU it’s embedded in the curriculum,” said Prothrow-Stith.

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Believe in Students

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Believe in Students was founded in 2016, at the dawn of the first Trump administration. Campus faculty, staff, and administrators found themselves under tremendous pressure—many of them dealing with the same financial, emotional, and health care challenges as their students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

I have met so many amazing people who continue to teach me new things and push me to be a better person, says Sarrol, who now serves as a peer mentor in the program. As a visiting professor, Rahman also teaches a similar course called Critical Muslim Studies. San Antonio College speak glowingly about the ARISE program.

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