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Hu has championed innovation and academic initiatives that have increased opportunities for students and faculty and have positively impacted their lives and the communities they serve," said UC President Dr. Michael V. with a six-year graduation rate of at least 90%, while graduate enrollment increased by more than 20% since 2019.

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She joined the School of Law's faculty in the fall of 2005 and was named the holder of the M.E. From 2015 to 2018 and for the fall semester of 2024, Rodrigues served as the law school's associate dean for faculty development. Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law in 2014.

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Any recent gains in salary for full-time faculty members have been swallowed up by soaring inflation. Full-time faculty saw a 4% bump for the year ending fall 2022, the largest single-year gain since 1991. It’s really hard to track data on adjunct faculty. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4%

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The proportion of non-exempt staff aged 55 and older has declined from 34 percent in 2019-20 to 31 percent in 2023-24, indicating a slightly younger workforce than before the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have accelerated this downward trend, with data showing a 3.3 percent reduction in full-time positions and a dramatic 17.2

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She was also a Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees (2014-2019) and co-chair of the Faculty Governance Task Force (2017-2019).

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Faculty will come and faculty will go, but that site will remain. Jada Ward, a 2019 alumna and the only student member of the Commemoration Committee, says Jordan did a lot to support and amplify student voices. “It took perseverance. It took funding. It took imagination,” says Dennie. Students will come and students will go.

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George Washington University’s (GW) adjunct faculty union voted on a bargaining agreement on Nov. Per that agreement, GW part-time faculty may see their first contractual raise in four years and an increase in base salaries – from $4,467 to $5,000.

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Under her leadership, the AU School of Education became a stand-alone school in 2019 and grew its enrollment from 200 to more than 1,500 students. She joined AACTE after serving as a distinguished professor and dean of the School of Education at American University (AU) in Washington, D.C., for over eight years.

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In 2019, he became the recipient of both an honorary doctorate in social work and a Distinguished Alumnus award for his decades of commitment and service to racial equality, the highest honor awarded by the University of Tennessee Alumni Board. Robinson later returned to the University of Tennessee, initially as a political science lecturer.

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In 2019, he became the recipient of both an honorary doctorate in social work and a Distinguished Alumnus award for his decades of commitment and service to racial equality, the highest honor awarded by the University of Tennessee Alumni Board. Robinson later returned to the University of Tennessee, initially as a political science lecturer.

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The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

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Jhaneil Thompson After graduating from high school, Thompson enrolled in a community college and when it was time for her to continue her education at a four-year-institution, it was Florida A&M University (FAMU) that welcomed her right from the start, even before she officially enrolled in fall of 2019.

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I am excited to partner with faculty, staff, students, alumni, and supporters to build on our legacy and write the next chapter of Morehouse's transformative story." "Returning to Morehouse as its 13th president is the honor of a lifetime," Bowman said.

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The report is a retrospective analysis of the changing demographics at selective and open-access institutions from 2009 to 2019; researchers ended their analysis in 2019 to account for changing enrollment patterns that resulted, in part, from the COVID-19 pandemic. It comes less than a year after the U.S.

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Sophia Rahming As a result of her work, class withdrawals and the number of students failing and having to repeat courses — particularly in STEM-related courses — have dramatically declined since she took the helm of the program in 2019. from FSU in 2019 — hasn’t had trouble recruiting diverse students from all backgrounds to sign up as LAs.

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DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. She will replace Dr. Shaun R. Her research has been cited in more than 9,000 published studies.

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In 2019-20, Latino students received an average financial aid award of $11,937, putting them lower than African Americans ($13,673), white students ($14,461), and Asians ($17,286). Around half of Latino students – and 49% of Latino undergraduates – got and made use of federal Pell grants during the 2019-20 school year, the report cited.

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Clarence Lang, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, had refused to follow through on a commitment to hire two new tenure-line faculty. Five African American studies professors have left since Lang came to Penn State in 2019, with only two replaced since, according to the letter.

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They pledged millions to initiatives such as hiring diverse faculty, appointing Chief Diversity Officers, revising curricula to address issues of race and power, and implementing new systems to report and address bias and discrimination. For Latinx students in our sample, 17% reported experiencing racism from white faculty in class.

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I look forward to engaging and collaborating with Cal State LA’s talented students, staff and faculty to continue the institution’s journey to new heights in student success, research, scholarship and creative activity, and community engagement.” Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes Eanes will become the university's first woman president.

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In 2019, about 33% of environmental scientists and geoscientists were women, according to the American Geoscience Institute. The percentage of Black environmental scientists and geoscientists fluctuated between 1% and 7.8%, from 2005 to 2019. Gordana Vlahovic, chair of NCCU’s Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences.

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During his tenure, Vasquez Heilig has worked to increase diversity at the school, with faculty of color now representing almost 29% of the College of Education and this year’s incoming freshman students of color more than tripling since 2019. Vasquez Heilig – ranked among the U.S.’s

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Meanwhile, the American Association of University Professors’ annual faculty salary survey report shows a 0.6 percent dip in overall faculty head counts between fall 2019 and fall 2021. institutions down 70% from 2019 to 2020.

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million in 2019 to $7.2 However, according to English professor Tobin Terry, president of the Lakeland Faculty Association, enrollment at the school seems steady. In the last four years, LCC cut 57% of its part-time staff and 34% of its full-time staff and cut staff salary spending by 21%, $9.1 million in 2023.

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She will succeed Dr. Suresh Garimella, who led UVM from 2019 until October 2024 when he became president of the University of Arizona. She currently serves on the NCAA Division I Board of Directors and consults on higher education with the Federal Reserve Board of San Francisco.

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Strengthening a Diverse Leadership Pipeline Through Leadership Preparation and Development” is a partnership of faculty from five schools: Stony Brook, City College of New York, Fordham University, Hofstra University, and St. John's University.

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Before Alabama A&M, she was a science education research assistant doing research on improving science education for urban students, particularly those of African descent, according to her faculty bio.

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This comes after the Tougaloo Alumni Coalition – not directly associated with the Tougaloo Alumni Association – started a petition to remove Walters earlier this year, citing concerns such as declining student enrollment, loss of faculty and staff, vacant key positions, and questionable fiscal issues. Dr. Carmen J.

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2019) found that academic engagement and psychological capital resources were significant antecedents of academic performance among university students. This moment demands that we clearly communicate the value of DEI programs to all stakeholders – students, parents, faculty, administrators, and policymakers. A study by Martínez et al.

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Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. “We Burt “Aspiring to a career in engineering can be daunting for Black males and a less traveled road they are expected to pave themselves,” said Burt, a UW-Maidson professor of education and director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB).

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He has also demonstrated fundraising prowess, helping to secure nearly $40 million for academic and student life initiatives since 2019. "I

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He brings outstanding results in growing enrollment, increasing student and faculty diversity, developing innovative programs, and forging beneficial partnerships inside and outside the academy," added Montgomery. Vincent, president of Talladega College, a historically Black institution in Alabama. “I

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“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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Sánchez, University of Southern California; and Marinah Valenzuela Farrell, Community Based Health Worker and Midwife Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Never forget why you do what you do. Eatman, Rutgers University-Newark; Dr. George J. Stay steadfast in your dedication to justice.” I didn’t come in as a scholar.

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She has been supported in her studies and research by numerous grants and fellowships including a 2022 grant from the Office of the Provost Research Development Academy at UT-Knoxville; she was a 2023 Faculty Fellow with the Association of American Hispanics in Higher Education, Inc.;

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Her professional experience also includes engineering roles at IBM and Ericsson Mobile Communications, as well as a year-long appointment as program director in the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Human Systems Program from 2018-2019.

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Suddenly, HBCUs have cultural cachet, thanks to celebrities like Beyoncé, who honored the schools in her 2019 concert documentary Homecoming , and Deion Sanders, who brought Jackson State University’s football team to national prominence before departing last December. bridge program as an example.

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