Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The political environment we’re in now, it’s pushing back against the ideas of democracy—whose stories get to be told, who gets valued in this country—it’s turning us backward,” said Hughes-Watkins. I think they appreciate when we engage in truth-telling, when we’re honest about the ugly, the painful. This project is a counter to that.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

These criticisms ranged from accusations of political indoctrination and concerns about affordability and value to questions about graduates' readiness for the workforce and persistent gaps in access and success. I thought about this guidance in the context of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

AACTE officials said that this year’s theme, “Ascending New Heights: Propelling the Profession into the Future,” aligns with the association’s vision and mission “to revolutionize education for all learners by elevation education and educator preparation through research, professional practice, advocacy, and collaboration.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It's graduate students, it's adjuncts, and it's those of us who are non-tenure track professors,” said Dr. Sigman Byrd, associate teaching professor for writing and rhetoric. Yet my take-home pay leaves me worried about paying for housing, health care and my student loans,” said Kristin Oliver, a graduate worker in the physics department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

Color Us United, a nonprofit that advocates for a “race-blind” America, declared a “historic victory” over DEI efforts at the University of North Carolina’s School of Medicine (UNC). It's clear that UNC will not request DEI statements from job candidates, although it’s not clear how much Color Us United played a role in that decision.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference underscored the mission of postsecondary institutions and academics to work against dehumanizing atmospheres and support the best policies and practices that improve student belonging, community connection, and create thriving faculty. “We We estimate about one million college interns are unpaid for their work.

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APRIL 29, 2024

So [the COVID] experiment taught us something: when we speak about medical school, it became a factor in trust.” We’ve known about this lack of diversity of representation of physicians for the last 30 years,” said Seoane. Reynold Verret. “If Xavier student hard at work. There’s been] zero progress for 30 years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Stories about diversity professionals doing vital work to support the strategic mission of colleges and universities and create a better future for us all. Missing in the narrative and discussion are the stories we see on our campuses and in our communities, in action every day.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

That activity is mirrored at institutions of higher education and educational organizations, where King’s lessons of resistance to what he called the “triple evils,” poverty, war, and racism, align with postsecondary missions. This commemoration holds a lot of value for us at the college. Dr. Vicki L. Dr. Glenell M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Legal scholars write about law. Along the way, she distinguished herself by writing and lecturing about current issues in the news, including reproductive and voting rights and the criminalization of disability. She has been laser focused as a critical scholar on examining how the law sometimes fails to remedy societal harms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission. Rhodes College The three-year grant will provide funding for the research and documentation of Memphians stories who are often absent from the narratives about the city.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

In the 2021 school year, about $10 million went to HBCUs in the state through financial aid, and the year before that it was $12 million. She reached out and asked Brown if he would help KC in its mission to regain accreditation. I’m grateful for the team that’s stuck with us. That’s what it’s all about.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

CSSJ sponsors arts initiatives that are open to the public, walking tours about the history of slavery at Brown and in Rhode Island, and a civil rights-themed after-school program for students at public high schools in Providence. For us, the question of racial slavery could not just be an academic affair,” said Bogues. “The

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

is not just about learning, reading, or writing Navajo, it’s really preparing [its students] with tools so that they will be efficient in designing their research studies, conducting research, and finding solutions to some of the challenges that we have,” says Guy. This is the mission of TCUs.” They want to collaborate with us.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This funding will enable us to reach, support and provide foundational training to underrepresented pre-health students,” said Dr. Belinda Campos, lead principal investigator, professor and chair of Chicano/Latino studies, and faculty in the Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Dr. William Broussard “If 30-odd HBCUs are making those kinds of announcements every year, a pervasive narrative begins to be constructed about the nature of those positions not necessarily being very stable,” says Broussard. If not, that tells us things didn’t go as well as we’d like them to go.”

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MARCH 28, 2024

On this January day, Curry — who grew up just a short distance from the college — greets the groundworkers and buttonholes administrative staff about the latest developments taking place across campus. He’s a real-life Equity Avenger, grinding 24/7 against injustice and setting an example for us all,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

They hoped to learn more about what attending MSU might look like for them, but they were also looking to find community and connection in their shared experiences. They’re not even pursuing—or thinking about pursuing—postsecondary education,” said Dr. Marcheta P. It happens to all of us. Even as a psychologist.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

We’re already using this when we go out to talk to these kids about coming to Coppin to pursue baseball.” Not everyone will make it to the draft; we’re realistic about that, but what we’re also doing around this game is showing them other career opportunities to stay within our industry.” more than $25.1

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Like many of us, I was eager to learn and grow but realized that the pressures of academia can sometimes take a toll on our mental health. Creating an Active Minds Chapter at my community college has allowed me to facilitate these conversations about mental health where they didn’t exist before.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But being an HSI isn’t “just about passing the 25% threshold — it’s about intentionality,” says Roy. Role-modeling isn’t just about his physical presence on campus, says Delgado, but a true commitment to meeting and engaging with his students. So be mindful about what you’re teaching and how you’re managing those classrooms.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. Within this context, we need to think/rethink about the purpose of the syllabus and how we can decolonize it.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Jilo Tisdale On May 10, 2023, US Department of Education Secretary Dr. Miguel A. Cardona released a “Dear Colleague” letter asking colleges and universities that receive Federal Work Study to use at least 15% of these funds to pay college students to serve as tutors in local K-12 schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

About 45.5% Dacey, who recently narrated a video about LGBTQ history at UND, has remained engaged with advocacy at the university. One of the biggest factors for us is getting our leadership involved and getting them to support the work.” of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Every time one of these events happens, it feels like we’re losing ground, that this is getting away from us,” said Williamson. The core mission of higher education is to educate our young people and put them into leadership roles for our society in the future,” said Williamson. “If

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JUNE 8, 2023

Although most of the education bills affect the K-12 level (regulating what students can be taught about gender and sexuality, what pronouns students can be called, and what bathrooms they can use), some measures affect higher education, including Senate Bill 150 in Kentucky. There’s only so many of us,” says Terry.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Now in its sixth year, the AWS IMAGINE Grant program provides vital resources to nonprofit organizations looking to deploy cloud technology as a central tool to achieve mission goals. This grant, and our work with AWS, will bring us invaluable insight into the ways we can truly make a difference in students’ lives and educational journeys.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

It’s not just about meeting the number threshold, but rather about really carrying out our mission and supporting the success of our students.” Once they’re here, looking at things about adjusting and transitioning into the college environment and the college process.” The college also has two bilingual peer mentors.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We need to love and care about the students we serve and design our colleges so all students feel a sense of worth and belonging.” ATD] staff and coaches will learn as much as we can about what you’re already doing around student success. But despite their efforts to increase access and opportunity for all, equity gaps remain. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

are more curious about our case than ever before. For example, there are eleven HBCUs affiliated with the United Methodist Church and, as a result of their church-relatedness and special missions, each are deeply rooted in the principles of social justice. Strategic engagement with these donors will give institutions a leg-up.

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MAY 16, 2023

By: Mamie Voight A few years ago, I had the opportunity to speak with a student about her experience pursuing a college education, and this student left an indelible mark on my mind. Those important questions and illuminating discussions led us to revisit our mission and vision statements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2022

When we allow external labels to restrict us, or we put ourselves in a box we are taking away that chance. The feeling of being confined to a certain title, role, or position is an issue that is often and chatted about behind closed doors but rarely addressed out in the open.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Every part of who you are, those are things that should be celebrated, those are core parts of our identities, those help us make critical change in the world and enhance educational environments.” “What I see at Mount Holyoke I also experienced at Howard. I can’t wait to represent Mount Holyoke in the U.S.

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JULY 6, 2023

Don’t let your hands fly the way so many Puerto Ricans like you do when they’re excited about something. Co-founder Dr. Richard Tapia said 15 people, in 1971, began brainstorming about the organization they eventually launched. It’s that we were a group people who were similarly situated … the Chicano Movement gave us identity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Adult learners, a lot of us are living paycheck to paycheck. It’s important for us to address the whole person, the whole student, make sure that people feel safe and address poverty situations, mental health situations, or lack of healthcare.” “For a lot of people, having a scholarship can be a make or break.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We’re concerned about their lived experiences while they’re here and beyond.” All this work is part of the university’s attempt to ensure that its mission remains focused on the public good. It requires us to carefully examine our institutions — and the entire educational system — to learn how we are contributing to those outcomes.

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JUNE 30, 2023

But keep talking about race. I’ve always talked about race. It’s time for all of us to tell our stories. And I realized I had failed in my original race mission back in the ‘70s. What about the mutual benefits of having an underprivileged Filipino kid as part of the student body at Harvard? Be color blind.

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