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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSIs) has released a new report that highlights the unique challenges and needs of early-career faculty at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). That’s why professional development and mentorship play a critical role in fostering a diverse and dynamic faculty at MSIs.”

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Morgan State University’s Bold Journey Toward Elite R1 Research Status

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Rather, its about attracting world-class faculty, creating more research opportunities for students, and coming upwith new innovations that benefit everyday people particularlythose in Baltimore, where the sprawling HBCU campusis located. For instance, whereas Morgan State spent $13 million on research in 2018, the figure stood at $43.9

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Supreme Court's Hollow Ruling One Year Later: Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Students Left Behind in the Pursuit of a 'Race-Blind' Agenda’

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In the fall of 2018, I was a student organizer for affirmative action and one of eight alumni who took the federal witness stand in the lawsuit Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), Inc. In 2018, Chen was a student organizer and expert witness for the defense in Students for Fair Admissions vs. President and Fellows of Harvard College

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Cultivating Tomorrow’s HBCU Leaders: The H.E.L.F. Foundation Effect

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This is an HBCU-centric program, and we are unapologetic about it,” says Dr. Elfred Anthony Pinkard, who served as president of Wilberforce University from 2018 until his retirement in 2023. Felton While H.E.L.F. But we look at them as absolute crisis-related departures and I think we really need to move away from that.” Innovation.

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Rolita Flores Ezeonu

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Ezeonu previously served as where Vice President of Instruction at Green River College from July 2018 through February 2025. During her time there, she led full-time and adjunct faculty recruitment, development, retention and evaluation, curriculum and instruction.

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Reimagining Black Male Success in Education: Moving from Marginalization to Empowerment

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Implementing culturally responsive curricula, mentorship programs, and high expectations are critical components in shifting how Black boys are treated in schools (Warren, 2018). Additionally, Dr. Whitaker is an inaugural faculty fellow at Vanderbilt University for the Initiative for Race, Research, and Justice.

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Building an Academic Space for Black Women Scholars

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Founded in 2018 with the recognition that Black womens perspectives have long been marginalized in academia, BWSA was birthed as a necessary space for scholars dedicated to studying Black womens histories, politics, literature, and lived experiences. asked Samuel.