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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is designed to increase RPI’s global impact and address the overarching challenges in energy, water, food security, national and global security, human health, climate change and the growing scarcity of natural resources. The Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies was renamed in her honor.

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Omnibus Bill Offers Financial Boosts, Compromises

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education policy in the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University, “and there are compromises.” The omnibus bill raised it by $500—far from what Biden had asked for, but still the largest increase in over a decade.