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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Because high schools that enroll substantial percentages of students of color are readily identifiable, colleges and universities must engage these designated school districts and, in conjunction with their administrative offices, create focused recruitment drives that begin the first day of the freshman year of high school.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. Enhanced readiness emerged from participants’ increased confidence in their potential to lead, development of leadership competencies, and exposure to leadership models.

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Dismantling the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As I moved from a faculty role into more administrative work, the words stayed with me though they no longer informed text selection, course design, or other personal pedagogical practices. It resonated immediately in the context in which I heard it — in a gathering of religion scholars of color.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Less than 10% of applicants are accepted. After earning tenure, Byrne began taking on administrative roles, one which notably put her in direct contact with Macaulay Honors College. During her time in administration, John Jay’s graduation rate rose from 24% to 41%. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.”

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The administration also made sure that Hall wasn’t assigned an unreasonable amount of administrative or DEI work. “We Dr. Tiffany Steele Steele says Rochester’s intention to support its cluster hires was clear during the application process. Hall says she has received good assistance from SIUE.

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Are We There Yet? Revising and Questioning Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If the applicants all happen to be white, well, that is the most qualified pool. Assumption two, the pool of applicants is not filled with friends and family and just hook-ups from the thinking inside the box, lid closed committee. Just look at the pictures of your campuses’ faculty, and pay close attention to upper administration.

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HBCU Sustainability, Possible and Necessary

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From their inauspicious beginnings, HBCUs have successfully instilled into their students, faculty, and administrators the empowering message that they must “find a way or make one.” Supreme Court decision that outlawed affirmative action, applications for admission to HBCUs are likely to increase at a substantial rate. Dr. William B.

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