Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

College and university administrators should be strategic about how they respond to government attempts to root out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI) on campus. For instance, The center that Chancler directs was once known as The Center for Multiculturalism and Inclusivity. Sylvester James (Jim) Gates, Jr.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The needs of freshmen are also carefully considered, with INSPIRE (Incoming Student Program for Inclusion, Retention and Excellence) as well as student support programs like EOP (Educational Opportunity Program) and EXCEL, which create strong networks of support.

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APRIL 25, 2025

There can be no question that this reflects a growing infrastructure to support belonging for all faculty, staff, and students in higher education. Hosting trans awareness events, safe zone training, Take Back the Night, and Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, for instance, are effective strategies for creating inclusive campus climates.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Setty's appointment follows a national search led by Marcilynn Burke, dean of Tulane Law School, and Rebecca Scheller, chief administrative officer at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Burke added that "Sudha's accomplishments and skill set as a dean and faculty member fit well with the aspirations of LSAC in its next chapter."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

That topic was among many issues discussed Thursday at the NCAA Inclusion Forum. The annual forum brought together more than 650 students, faculty, athletic directors, and administrators for a three-day conversation focused on enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives at colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

With the demise of affirmative action, threats to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI), and policies in higher education there might not be an immediate increase in the number of Black men seeking to enroll in higher education. Walker is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator at the University of Central Florida.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Nearly twenty years later, Patterson-Stephens returned to her alma mater in 2021 to become CMU’s Vice President for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging after honing her leadership skills at several other colleges and universities across the nation. The Alliance works to support faculty and staff recruitment and retention at the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Shawna Patterson-Stephens, Vice President for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging at Central Michigan University, received the Bobby E. Leach Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion award on Tuesday from NASPA, the association representing student affairs professionals. The Bobby E.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., The California Faculty Association is seeking a 12% salary raise and an increase in parental leave from six weeks to a full semester. It’s time to stop funneling tuition and taxpayer money into a top-heavy administration.”

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MARCH 6, 2023

The school is “committed to preparing diverse leaders” and pledges “accountability and transparency, as well as consistent engagement to ensure that we create and maintain an inclusive environment.” USC declined to make administrators available for interviews with Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male. The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders. How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

You must set aside your personal experiences and biases and recognize the unique challenges today’s underrepresented students face, whether academic or otherwise, particularly on topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). At this moment, when people are walking away from DEI initiatives, we cannot rely on the status quo.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Milwaukee Area Technical College's inaugural vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion has filed a federal lawsuit against the institution, alleging retaliatory termination after she reported racial and disability discrimination concerns. Martin has since retired, and the college is now led by President Anthony Cruz, who is Hispanic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Faculty members are more likely to self-censor today than social scientists did during McCarthy era of the 1940s and 50s, according to a recent report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). And 42% of untenured faculty reported censoring themselves, compared with 31% of tenured faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Johnson has more than 30 years of higher education experience as a faculty member, researcher and administrator. Previously, she joined the IUPUI faculty in 1993 and ascended through the ranks as a department chair, dean and associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education, prior to her role as chief academic officer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says. Those opportunities led Howard-Baptiste to Miami University in Ohio where she earned degrees in exercise science, health promotion, and a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

A new Center for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging is being established to foster understanding and harness systemwide resources across 25 CUNY campuses. Thompson To combat hate, the center will also oversee training and strengthen reporting and policy aims to bring consistency and accountability. Thompson Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This past summer, the Campaign for College Opportunity released a brief under their Affirming Equity, Ensuring Inclusion, Empowering Action initiative that sheds light on the college preparation, access and success trends for multiple groups within the U.S. Asian American and NHPI populations, among the fastest-growing in the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2024

Mike Lee California State University Sonoma President Dr. Mike Lee was placed on administrative leave after he agreed to protesters’ demands to involve them in university decision-making and pursue divestment from Israel.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As institutions grapple with this shift, they must adopt innovative strategies to maintain their commitment to diversity and inclusion, honor their espoused values, and care for the broad constituencies they serve and support. These administrators (e.g., Here are four ways that institutions can provide practical support: 1.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In his sophomore year of college, Williams had begun to struggle academically and financially, but the leadership and faculty at Xavier gave him the opportunity to continue his education. Because of the dean leads, the vice provost, the team members working with me, we were able to do great things with faculty and faculty fellows.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2024

Mike Lee California State University Sonoma President Dr. Mike Lee retired on Friday after he was placed on administrative leave after he agreed to protesters’ demands to involve them in university decision-making and pursue divestment from Israel.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Hollis will become associate dean for access, equity, and inclusion in the Penn State College of Education, effective Aug. Dr. Leah P. Hollis has authored or co-authored 37 peer-reviewed journal articles, seven book chapters, and 17 scholarly essays, as well as published four books.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Faculty members are sometimes questioned about their choice to teach at a community college rather than at other higher education institutions. Community college faculty are usually prepared to respond to these questions, with varying reasons for their career choice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Despite the fact that faculty are so crucial to students’ academic lives, they are often underutilized as levers of institutional change. Moreover, institutions are grappling with faculty burnout, dissatisfaction, and resignations at growing rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2025

On April 10, the CCP Board of Trustees voted to relieve Generals of his duties, placing him on paid administrative leave until his contract expires in June. The decision came just two weeks after the college announced a tentative agreement with the Faculty and Staff Federation, which represents college employees. We just landed a $2.7

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

While this is a collective undertaking, most often a senior-level administrator is designated to lead that effort and serve as the Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO). CEOs often lament that attending to the day-to-day tasks of college administration leaves them little time to get outside of their offices (let alone their campuses).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Dr. Steven Jones Jones currently serves as Vice President of Administrative and Student Services at the College located in the city of Moorhead. in higher education administration from The University of Southern Mississippi, along with a certificate in diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace from the University of South Florida.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Afterward, he led economic development efforts for the 1983 World’s Fair where he fought for Black inclusion. He understands the challenges that Black faculty and administrators face at predominantly white institutions. Robinson later returned to the University of Tennessee, initially as a political science lecturer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Afterward, he led economic development efforts for the 1983 World’s Fair where he fought for Black inclusion. He understands the challenges that Black faculty and administrators face at predominantly white institutions. Robinson later returned to the University of Tennessee, initially as a political science lecturer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 20, 2024

Meanwhile, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced on the same day that it would also dissolve its Office of Diversity & Inclusion. Its stated goal was to enhance diversity and inclusivity through the recruitment and retention of an increasingly diverse population of faculty, administrators, staff and students.

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JULY 1, 2024

“I loved my time as a student and have been thoroughly impressed by the university’s lived mission and how it has been embraced by the faculty, staff, administration, and students through their culture of caring,” she said. “I Flinders served as professor of nursing and associate provost for faculty affairs at Miami University (Ohio).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

in Higher Education Administration Program at North Carolina Central University, an historically Black university in Durham, North Carolina. My research focuses on inequities in higher education among marginalized college students and the impact of college environments on students, faculty, and administrators,” says McMickens. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The board of trustees and administration thoroughly restructured the college's academic offerings without meaningful faculty involvement and denied academic due process to multiple faculty members during their tenure applications and renewals. The report details the restructuring of New College of Florida led by Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

As institutions of higher education turn to AI machine learning and data-driven algorithms to make their work more efficient, a new study published in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) peer-reviewed journal , AERA Open , reminds administrators that algorithms can be racially biased. It becomes biased.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. These initiatives opened doors for me and countless others, providing opportunities that seemed out of reach for many in my community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year. Go look at the faculty and staff. Go look at a curriculum.

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