Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

In this article, we share the perspectives of three Black female CEOs and our rise to the college presidency. These experiences have given me a unique lens through which I approach leadership, prioritizing equity, access, and the holistic well-being of our students. As leaders, we are constantly evolving, learning, and growing.

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MAY 2, 2024

We as a faculty, Black faculty and others, have been fighting the administration to address matters of racial justice, and in a very forceful and progressive manner, for the last 20 years or so in different iterations,” said King in an interview with Diverse. Racism came from administrators, colleagues, and even students. Dr. Marcus A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Higher Education is a very challenging environment for anyone but particularly for scholars and administrators of color. Specifically, some of our Black colleagues are thriving, receiving genuine support, and feel a sense of workplace belonging within their respective institutions of higher education. Dr. Ronald W. Dr. Adriel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. I never would’ve made this pivot had I not read that lifechanging magazine article. It was love at first sight.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

This report is timely for everyone involved in higher education — administrators, researchers, policymakers. It allows us to examine the current state of race and ethnicity in higher education and strive to bridge these equity gaps.” Jamal Watson contributed to this article. Department of Education and U.S. Census Bureau.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2024

As the call for equity for all students grows louder, community college educators (and other sector leaders) seek to implement equity initiatives to decrease outcome disparities. This author argues that cultural responsiveness and institutional policies and practices must be deeply integrated into the equity conversation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

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. The author of this article completed a study of the benefits of this unique program at College of the Desert and on the graduate students enrolled in the program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

MSU, like so many institutions across the nation emphasized, via countless statements, committees or task force formations, a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, anti-bias, etc. Vassar’s election to the board. to address the experiences of Black students. It should also be noted that Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This article serves as both a personal narrative and a broader examination of the evolving landscape of higher education. This period was characterized by an increasing emphasis on computer literacy and the integration of technology into both curriculum and administrative processes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Before coming to Otero, Alvarez was a senior fellow for NASPA (student affairs administrators in higher education) and a vice president for student affairs at North Dakota State University. His sense of curiosity drives his staff crazy, he said, because he’s always reading articles and books that he shares with them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Dr. Sheneka Williams, a professor and chair of the Department of Educational Administration at MSU, came to know Jackson tangentially when she was a graduate student at Vanderbilt University about 20 years ago. As a land-grant, it’s a “delicate dance,” as faculty and administrators see it. Go White,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Gonzales said he did not necessarily aspire to be a higher ed administrator at that point, but it became a natural extension of his core passion for education. “I I can’t necessarily say that it was something I ever aspired to do,” said Gonzales of being a college administrator. “I Lois Elfman contributed to this article.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. The mission of the Grad Equity Fellowship Program is to provide to students an opportunity to explore the possibility of going on to a Ph.D. The program offers a B.A.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

A November 2024 article , from the Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS) highlights that total financial aid awarded by National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and SAIS schools has grown significantly over the past two decades, reflecting schools commitment to supporting families. million during the same period.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But a November 2022 article in U.S. Mahon offers a different perspective on how to diversify the nursing profession and increase health equity: boost ADN programs. She says employers need to create conditions that support recruitment and retention.

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The Counseling Geek

MAY 16, 2024

The role of an AP teacher is multifaceted, involving extensive lesson planning, student coaching, and the administration of mock exams—all of which often extend far beyond their contractual obligations. Dear David 2.0:

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

JANUARY 5, 2023

Inside Higher Ed Article. He has led a broad range of educational institutions, giving him a unique and effective breadth of knowledge in on-ground and online higher education administration. TRANSFER RESOURCES: 2023 COTA Conference. Sallustio is one of our nation’s foremost higher education experts.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

A 22% equity gap in credits earned between Black and White students A 15% equity gap in credits earned between Hispanic and White students SUNY Broome sought to address these equity gaps by offering targeted support, enhancing collaboration and information sharing, and achieving student outcomes aligned with the goals outlined in the strategic plan.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As part of the TimelyCare GenZtressed webinar series , a panel of health equity, mental health, and student affairs leaders explored the need for and benefits of inclusive care delivery that embraces all students. As Batista noted, finding a solution requires commitment from institutional administration.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. I prefer to talk about leadership rather than administration, because administration connotes bureaucracy. We can't escape that.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The graphic below summarizes promising priorities for institutional action to promote wellbeing, equity and learning among marginalized sociodemographic groups in postsecondary education. student leaders, administrative leaders). Within student affairs, representation in programming offered (e.g. Shifting Cultures: Broad Awareness.

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Supporting Student Success

MAY 6, 2021

Below is an article originally shared in EdSurge , a higher education news publication, which shares a bit of my story — it reveals the core of my why for pursuing and persisting through higher education. A long-overdue spotlight on equity, diversity and inclusion shining on all of our operations. She earned her Ed.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

Though the phraseology of diversity, equity, and inclusion was not expressly used in the way that it currently is during Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s s lifetime, I contend that King's life and work were, in large part, about the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Jobs are harder to create than voting rolls.”

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We're committed to educational equity and we focus on students from 11th grade all the way through to college graduation. JW: So I have worked in one of those before, where I worked for the CBO, but my office was actually in a public school building, and I was collaborating with the administrators and the district people there.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Experts in higher education, diversity, equity and inclusion celebrated the news, hoping it could signal to other institutions that it is time for more diverse leadership. Liann Herder can be reached at lherder@diverseeducation.com Jon Edelman and Arrman Kyaw contributed to this article. Gay’s appointment comes on the heels of the U.S

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This entails being anti-racist, equity-minded, and culturally responsive, as we have written about in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education and several other scholarly outlets. Decolonizing preparation and training In a recent Diverse article, Dr. Kelly A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

There’s this unfair labor that is thrust upon us because, when we really think about it, the organization, the institution, refuses to invest in diversity and equity,” said Commodore. Fries-Britt, her mentor, was at first reluctant to step into the role as she was just beginning her transition from administration to faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Berkeley-based nonprofit organization promotes social equity through education, using a cradle-to-career reach across four distinct demographic groups. Wilkinson earned several professional civic honors and awards over her career, writing, publishing, and reviewing several professional articles and books. Gavin Newsom. And we did.

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COE

MAY 10, 2023

COE hosts the Opportunity Matters Book Club for first-generation and low-income students, allowing them to discuss literary works that raise issues related to opportunity and equity. LEARN MORE “Upward Bound prepared me for after high school, not just education,” Wright said. Upward Bound] is a special club that I entered from the age of 15.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2025

Similarly, as argued in this article, there is a continued effort to dismantle DEI programs in higher education. Yet, on the evening of April 3, 1968, King was not only confronting a storm; he was also addressing a deeper, more pervasive, and pernicious problem, which he framed as a sickness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

The political landscape in Florida has recently witnessed some significant developments that pose a serious challenge to efforts aimed at promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at public colleges and universities. Attorney Antonio Moore referred to this concept as the “Decadent Veil” in a 2014 Huffington Post article.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2025

An article from the Courier Journal reported that University of Kentucky spokesperson Lindsey Piercy said, We have not received any official notification of this review. However, the university complies with both the constitution and Title VI. These attacks are grounded in a false narrative that DEI initiatives are about exclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Biden Administration U.S. The Biden-Harris administration anticipated that the debt forgiveness would impact 95% of student loan borrowers, or about 43 million people. We attempted to do something for Black faculty and administrators and so Black Issues was started. Some good news came in late summer as U.S. Dr. Jerlando F.

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