Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2025

Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Every obstacle, no matter how daunting, can be overcome. The lab was formed when Collier was on the faculty at University of Delaware, and he has kept the same team since moving to University of Connecticut in 2023. Collier conveys that message to the doctoral students that he teaches.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Carol Ann Tomlinson taught in public schools for 21 years and was later a faculty member at the University of Virginia for 30 years. Tomlinson was Virginias Teacher of the Year in 1974 and received an All-University teaching award at the University of Virginia in 2008.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

McGuire of his February 14, 2025 Dear Colleague letter spelling out new rules and coercive threats for race conscious practices in education. Citing a favorite theme of the movement to debilitate and even destroy teaching the truth of U.S. Trinity stands strong and in solidarity with our students, faculty and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

With over 25 years of administrative, research, and teaching experience in various higher education settings, Vega transitioned to academia as a faculty member and has significantly contributed to the Master of Arts in Higher Education program at Montclair State University since 2017. Vega earned her Ed.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2025

1929 J uly 10, 2025, marks the 150th birthday of the woman who wrote that line. Fast-forward to 2025. Alumni oral histories from the 1970s record a laundress named Mrs. Pinkney who, after a ten-hour washday, stayed to drill younger pupils—teaching fractions to a teenage sugar-field hand so he could tally harvest wages.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2025

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arriving on campus, is reducing the climate of fear and worry, raising morale especially among immigrant students, and helping faculty and staff to stay positive for their students. 17, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision allowing U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

I have met so many amazing people who continue to teach me new things and push me to be a better person, says Sarrol, who now serves as a peer mentor in the program. A communication major, Sarrol hopes to transfer to a California State University system school in fall of 2025.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the year winds down, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and administration are left to wonder what comes next in higher education. Smith Faculty are the primary conductors of university research and influence the overall intellectual creative direction of their respective fields and institutions, Smith said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2025

Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Every obstacle, no matter how daunting, can be overcome. The lab was formed when Collier was on the faculty at University of Delaware, and he has kept the same team since moving to University of Connecticut in 2023. Collier conveys that message to the doctoral students that he teaches.

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Believe in Students

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Campus faculty, staff, and administrators found themselves under tremendous pressure—many of them dealing with the same financial, emotional, and health care challenges as their students. The post Preparing for 2025 appeared first on Believe in Students. Those endowments the incoming administration is talking about taxing?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

Rutgers University reached an agreement with its faculty unions Apr. 14 for new contract, after a week of faculty strikes, NBC News reported. over a four-year contract; and enhance wages of teaching and graduate assistants and provide them with multi-year university support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

Sacramento State, which enrolls more Black students than any other CSU campus, plans to use the CSU funds to support faculty who will teach in the Black Honors College and provide release time for work to implement the initial program offerings. It is designed for students who are interested in Black history, life, and culture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Manhattan Institute's "Project on Fair Representation " and the Heritage Foundation's " Project 2025 " both explicitly call for the dismantling of DEI initiatives in higher education. For faculty members: As educators, you have a profound influence on shaping future leaders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Words of Wisdom for new faculty: Challenges alone dont define you, but rather it is how you respond to challenges that make the difference. As an assistant professor in the department, her work and scholarly activity ensures that our students, faculty, and staff learn and work in an environment where knowledge is seen as inclusive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. from Stanford University, she now teaches the kind of information that she always wanted to learn. Neither did college. in the 1930s, amid federal Chinese exclusion efforts and prejudice — she couldn’t fully grasp them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. The strategic plan became a focus on coaching, teaching and learning, and data. At the same time, the deans are talking to their faculty about the data in the classroom that faculty are using.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It has shown up in her leadership while she was chair of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, and it shows up throughout her scholarship and teaching at Wayne State University, where she is one of only two Black women in her department to be elevated to full professor. I thought teaching was one of the most esteemed professions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. from Stanford University, she now teaches the kind of information that she always wanted to learn. Neither did college. in the 1930s, amid federal Chinese exclusion efforts and prejudice — she couldn’t fully grasp them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

She was teaching law at Yale University and raising her two daughters. In 2023, Chua received the Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize by the Buckley Institute, which acknowledges Yale faculty members who cultivate intellectual diversity both in and outside the class. But it made me terrified to speak at faculty meetings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. During that summer, we’re not only doing the academic part, but also teaching them skills in terms of how to negotiate campus.” “The California legislature put some caveats. They’ll have a research question that they’ll take with them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

The aim for active listening to students, staff, faculty, community members, and UofL stakeholders anchors my work in making impactful connections, and my team’s efforts in student coaching and leadership development, cultural programming, and resource-sharing,” says Bennett. We even honored our beloved late Breonna Taylor with the award.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

Michael Cunningham, Tulane University; Dr. Nghana Lewis, Tulane University; Dr. Colleen Capper, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Run your race and remember your why. Remember why you got into this. Dr. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Remember, its progress, not perfection. Cureton brings a myriad of frameworks to teach her students, including human rights, philosophy, Afrocentric theory and paradigms, indigenous practices, climate change and environmental justice, AI and the role technology plays in the world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2025

Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Try to engage minorities in cutting-edge environmental research. Bagheri is inspired by teaching students underrepresented in STEM fields. Career mentors: Dr. Joel Burken, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Dr. Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University Education: BSc.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

University of California, Irvine (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Career mentors: Dr. Stephen Mattingly, UTA; Dr. Melanie Sattler, UTA Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Stay resilient and persistent. Title: Associate Professor Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.S Aim for steady progress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Shaun Harper, University of Southern California; Dr. Dawn Johnson, Syracuse University; Dr. Candace Maddox Moore, University of Maryland, College Park Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Be unapologetic about your work. I cite much of her work in my research in this area and assign multiple papers of hers in courses I teach here at USC.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And in all the hundreds of hours of conversations I’d had about student success, I had never once talked to or about faculty members as part of the solution. And yet, faculty are critical actors in students’ college experiences, and essential to the effort to transform higher education to a space where students are seen as humans first.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Since then, we have made significant progress—from hitting our ambitious 2025 goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 51% three years early, to initiating the largest investment in solar power of any single university in the country at the time of our signing, to launching bold interdisciplinary initiatives like the Ralph S.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

And considering we have I think this demographic cliff as we called it, where undergraduate enrollments are probably going to taper off around 2025, how do you think that might impact? I would think probably like wanting face-to-face with faculty, kind of that sense of community, having someone that you can talk to specifically.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

That’s in stark contrast to today’s rules, where “there are no jobs that are open to undocumented students,” he says, including academic jobs that “are very important to undergraduate students, such as being medical residents or teaching assistants. Dual rules This situation is equally upsetting for many members of the faculty and staff. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

Black women as a whole can teach a masterclass on navigating “difficult situations,” but when it comes to discussing rest, saying “no”, and prioritizing wellness activities, we undoubtedly struggle. If you continue working at your current pace or continue centering your wellness, where will you be in May 2025?

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Student Loan Hero

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Not available to all borrowers Often requires working in specific careers Relief typically arrives in years Forgiven amount could be taxable ( at least after 2025 ) Legitimate programs are sometimes handcuffed by poor administration or overshadowed by scams. Loan forgiveness amounts vary depending on what subject you teach.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2025

That’s the twisted irony of our moment: the same politicians who rail against “indoctrination” in higher education are now trying to dictate exactly what can be taught, who can teach it, and which students are allowed to stay. Most of the postings read like a pre-2025 wish list: safe, managerial, and generic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2024

Experts urge voters everywhere, but particularly in higher education institutions, to pay close attention to how politicized higher education has become, particularly in light of Project 2025. Dr. John Kane, clinical associate professor at the Center for Global Affairs and affiliated faculty of New York University’s Department of Politics. “I

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