Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By 2020 the organization had ballooned to more than 700 members, and in 2021 it became part of Swipe Out Hunger, a national nonprofit. Martin argues for change in food pantries writ large, moving beyond a focus on food distribution with new models that center empathy, equity, and systems reform.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We aim to eliminate equity gaps and continue to transform our institution into a Hispanic-graduating institution.” Since 2020, almost 60% of Village residents have been Latino and have completed their degree or certificate programs in an average of 3.4 years, compared to the collegewide average of 5.2

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

The organization's latest workforce trends report, "The Non-Exempt Higher Education Staff Workforce: Trends in Composition, Size, and Equity," reveals a 9 percent overall decrease in full-time non-exempt staff positions since 2017. percent drop in part-time positions beginning in 2020. The non-exempt staff workforce at U.S.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program. It was 2020, shortly after the murder of26-year-old Breonna Taylor.

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Donald Trump made a bold claim at the Davos economic conference in 2020 that he saved HBCUs which is untrue. Ive been able to explore how theories and concepts interact with race, culture, and equity. Today, amidst increasing racial violence, hostility, and divisiveness, HBCUs are, for many Black students, the option of choice.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Yet, while 64 nonprofit and for-profit colleges closed between 2020 and 2023, exacerbated by the pandemic and long-term enrollment declines, only four of these closures were HBCUs. Note, however, the size and prominence of all these HBCUs is certainly significant. There are 101 HBCUs in operation across the U.S.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

First, lets look at how we define, value and seek equity. What became lightening-rod terms, diversity, equity and inclusion in reality constitute neither a policy nor an ideology; they are a way of life that, when intentional and outcome-oriented, change lives in meaningful, measurable ways. So, whats still missing?

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Detris Adelabu On the day of his death in 2020, an op-ed appeared in the New York Times , pre-written by Congressman John Lewis, urging Americans to stand up for justice and what he called good trouble, necessary trouble. But can higher education leadership muster the political will to stand firm for equity?

Educational leadership

Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 11, 2025

But returning to speak about open educational practices for good with scholars and librarians who are leading work in open education for equity and antiracism that was a future I could never have dreamt. This drew on GTM and team members’ expertise as well as principles of data feminism (DIgnazio & Klein, 2020 ).

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

This double standard manifests in insidious ways: Overrepresentation in Service Work: We are disproportionately asked to lead diversity initiatives, serve on equity committees, and mentor students from historically excluded or systemically marginalized backgrounds. Excellence, for us, is not an option; its a baseline requirement to survive.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Racial equity and educational equity are cojoined goals and it’s unlikely, I believe, that either will be achieved without the other," she said. provides community support and resources to advance equity and the opportunity for all students and communities to thrive. BOLD Leadership Network, headquartered in Greenville, S.C.,

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

As the coordinator of Montclair States Master of Arts program in Higher Education, she has been instrumental in guiding its development, leading it from its origins as a concentration to its establishment as a stand-alone program in 2020.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2025

traces the trajectory of racial justice initiatives since May 25, 2020, when Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. With partners, they filed a lawsuit challenging what they describe as "unconstitutional anti-equity executive orders." "It

Database

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

Dr. Prabhas Moghe has been executive vice president of academic affairs at Rutgers University since 2020. He worked as a Boeing research engineer in the 1960s, at times participating in civil rights and equity efforts. Meanwhile, an India-born provost has been named the sole finalist for the University of Texas at Dallas presidency.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The organization expressed additional concern about McMahon's leadership role at AFPI, which she co-founded after Trump's 2020 election loss. The think tank has reportedly drafted nearly 300 executive orders and called for defunding diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at universities.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Several states have already dismantled diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming, and other states anticipate something similar coming their way. Something Ive been passionate about since 2020 is that I refuse to have a waitlist for students, said Geisler, who oversees health promotion, prevention and collegiate recovery (substances).

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

Trump signed an executive order he called Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity, instructing federal agencies to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices and programs. However, by December 2024, she said that Richland quickly rolled back to the 2020 legislation.

Database

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2025

The report also examined salary equity by gender, finding persistent disparities. The gender salary-equity ratio was lowest (87.2) However, despite the positive trend, part-time faculty pay remains appallingly low, and in real terms it has not returned to the levels before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2025

The investigation comes amid mounting pressure on Dr. Gregory Washington, GMU's first Black president, who has faced four other federal probes related to the university's diversity, equity and inclusion policies and alleged failures to combat campus antisemitism.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2025

In a March 2025 university-wide email, President Gregory Washington announced the renaming of the "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" office to the "Office of Access, Compliance, and Community" while maintaining that GMU "has always complied with existing civil rights laws."

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Since 2020, ATD has partnered with the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center to create the Racial Equity Leadership Academy (RELA) , an intensive institute that supports teams of community college leaders as they develop strategic racial equity plans and consciously dismantle barriers to equity at their institutions.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Louis, has been appointed executive director of the school's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2). CRE2 was established in 2020 to bring the research force of WashU to study how race and ethnicity are integral to the most complex and challenging issues of the time. Dr. Dwight A.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Harvard and UNC could produce a similar chilling effect on the measures taken by federal or state governments and institutions that increase access, equity, and inclusion for underrepresented groups in higher education, experts said at the panel. There are big benefits to equity. And that was just looking at the Black and white gap.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice has released its final report on equity in higher education. Giving this platform to scholars also allows us to see where strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities may lie in educational equity.”

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

In 2020, after the horrific murder of George Floyd, the world responded with declarations condemning racial violence and oppressive systems. Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). McNair et al.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

But with the recent recession in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives across America, the notion of any kind of “soft landing” is misplaced – and dangerously misleading. The NDC, like many other organizations, rose to prominence on the wave of racial justice advocacy that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Because several minoritized professors are being hired at once, they are less likely to be tokenized and burdened with extra diversity, equity, and inclusion work. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Through campus partnerships, support programs, and academic interventions, she has led advances in student retention, persistence and graduation with the goal of eliminating equity gaps for our most vulnerable students. She holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s, and a Ph.D.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

It's one of the new offerings coordinated by the National Education Equity Lab, an educational justice nonprofit that brings credit-bearing college courses into Title I and Title I-eligible high schools, at which large numbers of students come from families with little money. More partnerships are currently being explored.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A champion of diversity, equity and inclusion, Dr. Eanes is the ideal person to lead Cal State LA and continue to drive its powerful engine of social mobility,” said CSU Trustee Jack B. Eanes has served as president of York College since 2020 following a one-year interim appointment. Clarke, Jr.,

University

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.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2024

NEW YORK – At the National Action Network (NAN) Convention in New York City, social justice leaders gathered to discuss the impact of anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) legislation introduced or signed into law in states like Texas, Florida, and Alabama. Most of this is a reaction to 2020, the George Floyd protests.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

She says she often asks herself: “How do we create equity and justice in these spaces that I occupy, where I know first-hand that equity and justice are absent?” In 2020, the world was riveted by the murder of George Floyd, and Vassar was horrified. A sense of urgency Vassar’s second initiative was even more aspirational.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

According to Handshake, a network of institutions and employers that helps connect students with early career opportunities, trade careers saw 49% fewer applications in 2022 than 2020. We’re trying to address those equity gaps.” Dr. Willie L. president of Denmark Technical College.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

"Our Education as an Equalizer program was developed to provide educational opportunities and equity to underserved and sometimes overlooked students,” said Synchrony Foundation President Denise Yap. “We We believe education and skills building can be key for youth seeking a better future for themselves and their families.

Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. As of 2020, Johns Hopkins expanded this to a year-long program. It’s also about not being afraid to talk about equity,” he said. “If

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles Gayles is currently an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor of Higher Education and senior adviser for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the College of Education. She was the 2022 President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Hikes Woman of Color in the Academy Award.

Educational leadership