Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Supreme Court decision in June 2023 to ban race-conscious college admissions, and the fallout since then, have been sobering, including for Asian Americans who were swayed by SFFA. Despite the media attention and racialized division that this case drew, the U.S. Asian American and NHPI populations, among the fastest-growing in the nation.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The 2023 American College Presidents Study (ACPS) was released with sadly predictable results. Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male. Only 15% were men of color, and 13% were women of color. Only 15% were men of color, and 13% were women of color.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) have jointly announced a network to give faculty and staff ways to improve student belonging and inclusion. The network will start early Spring 2023 – online pre-registration opens this week.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

CGU’s former dean of students and campus life, she arrived on campus in 2017 and became the school’s chief student affairs officer in June 2023. "A She is involved in myriad school matters including campus life, international students services, disability services, the Clery Act, and financial aid as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Active Minds is proud to announce the 2023 Emerging Scholars Fellowship cohort! Active Minds is excited to empower our scholars and see how their projects facilitate change and pave the way towards a more inclusive, just society. Learn more about the Fellowship, as well as our 2023 Emerging Scholars, here. Maico Demi B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

In recognition of his commitment to inclusive excellence, servant leadership, and his devotion to lifting up the disenfranchised in the community college space, Gonzales has been named a 2023 recipient of the Diverse Champions Award. The inclusiveness has been really helpful,” continued Renfro. It’s been a journey together.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

Nicole Pulliam In my first year as a faculty member, I was the shiny new object. Rashma Saujani, in her 2023 commencement speech, likened societal pressures on women to the 1890s concept of bicycle facea fabricated ailment used to deter women from gaining independence. Impostor Syndrome or Systemic Failure?

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Parham The report is the culmination of 2023 workgroup study spurred by then-Interim Chancellor Jolene Koester’s call for the university system’s leadership to redouble efforts to advance Black student success. strategies that support faculty and staff in support of Black student success; and 3.) Dr. Thomas A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year. Go look at the faculty and staff. Go look at a curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Ariella Robbins is Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Villanova University, a post she has held since November 2024. Robbins also established Employee Resource Groups to provide support and engagement to faculty and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The board of trustees and administration thoroughly restructured the college's academic offerings without meaningful faculty involvement and denied academic due process to multiple faculty members during their tenure applications and renewals. The report details the restructuring of New College of Florida led by Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom white paper explores whether and how 11 think tanks helped created a self-reinforcing echo chamber of reports, commentary, webinars, op-eds, and other content villainizing faculty and academic institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Jay Pearson will become the inaugural associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, effective Jan. 1, 2023, The Chronicle at Duke reported. Our Sanford community has invested itself greatly in diversity, equity and inclusion, but the work is ongoing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2023

The work that we do in the world is so important,” said Kinloch, describing her hopes for advancing equitable policies and practices that benefit students, faculty, staff, communities of people in schools, school districts, and universities around the world. “To Valerie Kinloch’s end goal as an education scholar. Kinloch holds a Ph.D.

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MARCH 6, 2023

The school is “committed to preparing diverse leaders” and pledges “accountability and transparency, as well as consistent engagement to ensure that we create and maintain an inclusive environment.” Teresa Pham, a doctoral candidate in the class of 2023, was more direct. “I Maybe that just makes people uncomfortable.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Natalie Galucia The study, Age as a Factor in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education , was conducted between February 2022 and January 2023 and published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Wor k. Universities are multigenerational places, especially when accounting for faculty and staff, Galucia said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Levon Esters will become vice provost for graduate education at Penn State and dean of its Graduate School, effective May 1, 2023. Dr. Levon Esters Esters is currently the associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion and faculty affairs for Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute and professor of agricultural sciences education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The University of Texas System’s board of regents has suspended all new policies promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and asked school leaders to report on their current DEI policies, citing that some practices have “strayed from the original intent,” The Texas Tribune reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Wisconsin Republicans have demonstrated clear opposition against the Universities of Wisconsin’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. According to PBS , GOP legislators cut system funding in June 2023 by $32 million. Vos made this threat despite the raises having already been approved in the state budget earlier in 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

She and other scholars underlined the critical importance of HBCUs and an inclusive, expansive history curriculum being taught to students K-12 and beyond. We have to keep the lights on, pay faculty, and keep the grounds, but we can’t pass the cost of that to students,” said Jones.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By summer, the college had taken decisive action — hiring Donald Jaamal to be dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and Title IX coordinator. “In In addition to Jaamal’s hiring, there were requests for the creation of a committee to address discrimination, racism, diversity, and inclusion concerns.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

The State University System of Florida Board of Governors decision to eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the University of Florida is the latest example. The Georgia Board of Regents in 2023 ended the practice of providing diversity statements for faculty hiring.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Pierre, a seasoned legal scholar, had been serving the Southern University Law Center in numerous roles since 1990, first as a faculty member and then as an administrator. I think you’ve heard it from faculty and others about the impression he has left on this campus in an interim (executive vice president) position.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

Florida’s Senate Bill 266 took effect on July 1, 2023, prohibiting specified educational institutions from expending funds for certain purposes. It seeks to prohibit any state or federal funding from being utilized to support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at the state’s higher education institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts were at the center of another entry. The University of Oregon (UO) drew FIRE’s ire due to its rubric for evaluating DEI statements from prospective faculty and faculty seeking promotion or tenure. Fingers crossed for 2023.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In April 2023, Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York, passed a significant threshold. There is power in being a role model, he says, and that’s why he wants to make sure undergrads and graduates can see themselves represented in Lehman faculty, staff, and administration. are white and only 21% are faculty of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) 2023 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), 23% of undergraduate college students and 12% of graduate students are experiencing food insecurity, accounting for more than 4 million students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She will step into her role on July 1, 2023. Mount Holyoke is a gender-inclusive women’s college in Massachusetts, one of the historic Seven Sisters, a group of highly selective women’s liberal arts institutions in the Northeast. I think its values, what it represents, is the best of higher education.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

With enrollment hovering at 13,885 as of fall 2023, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. The number of master’s degree and doctoral degree programs continues to grow and the faculty is achieving national and international recognition for its research. We have faculty from outside the College of Engineering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Bowen Cho Beitiks opened fellowship applications in January 2023 to early-career scholar-activists with project proposals related to disability studies or disability justice. Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

They say the role of department chair should be in service to an institution, fundamentally providing care, guidance, and support to not only faculty colleagues but to support staff and students as well. Check out [link] on Thursday, September 28, 2023, for a conversation between Dr. Jamal Watson and Dr. Stephanie Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Funding of the grant program in 2023 rose substantially to $45 million, an amount that looks to stay the same for this year’s congressional appropriations, according to two of the higher ed organizations that Diverse spoke to. Faculty's working conditions are students' learning conditions,” Kezar told Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

10, 2022, union members called for this compensation pay while the school argued that the rate listed in their contracts was inclusive of all work for a class, Carey said. Earlier in 2022, the union at Barnard College was able to win compensation for out-of-class work for adjuncts and full-time faculty there.

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JULY 14, 2023

million credit and non-credit students for the 2021-22 academic year; the need to retain top talent among faculty and staff continues to grow. MCCCD remains a national leader due to its deliberate focus on fostering a supportive and inclusive environment. We have found the following strategies to be effective for our organization.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Everrett A. psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I plan to continue Trinity’s efforts to recruit and retain a diverse community of inspiring minds, support the faculty’s efforts to reimagine the undergraduate curriculum, and prepare our graduate students for a world of new opportunities,” Bennett said. Dr. Gary G.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

Dr. Jabani Bennett Bennett began their tenure in 2023 with priorities that included breathing life into the new organizational mission, operationalizing the intersectional feminist and antiracist goals of the center, and co-creating leadership succession plans. The center is located in a centralized and student-centered area at UofL.

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