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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 17, 2025
Under Jordan’s leadership, SMCM saw a 71% increase in undergraduate admission applications, a 30% increase in first-generation students, a 20% increase in historically underrepresented and/or marginalized students, and a significant jump in alumni engagement. She didn’t just lead a college — she led a liberal arts movement.”
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. Dr. Dereck J.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Kim Schatzel Schatzel – currently president of Towson University (TU) – previously served as provost of Eastern Michigan University and dean of the College of Business at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, A first-generation college student herself, she has been praised for making diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a priority.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 8, 2023
Page has been lauded for her work, having been given the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officer Award in 2020 and recognized as one of Diverse’s 25 leading women in higher education in 2017. At Dillard, she oversaw the development of the school’s first online degree program and its Center for Racial Justice. “We
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 20, 2023
It’s [an] optimal time for new leadership,” said Fox. Fox describes herself as an idea generator. She said the institution is very proud of its social mobility ranking and its commitment to Pell recipients and first-generation college students. Fox acknowledges going coed, which happened in 2017, was not an easy process.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 10, 2024
Paul Sniegowski Since his appointment as dean in 2017, Sniegowski has been responsible for the direction of Penn’s liberal arts undergraduate curricula, programs and students in academic departments and interdisciplinary programs across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
The University Innovation Alliance
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Our board, staff, and network convened in person for the first time in three years. We released two new playbooks to assist leadership teams in their practices of proactive advising and college-to-career transition. They're embedded in our institutions to offer strategic guidance, collaboration, insight, and on-the-ground leadership.
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