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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

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14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. 11, 2007), has now published his seventh book and moved into administration at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Positive Pluralism: The Next Phase in the Evolution of the Academy?

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On its cover page, the annual education issue of the New York Times magazine uses the sardonic headline, Not U, to capture the current attitude of parts of the country toward higher education. The headline is then followed by this intriguing subtitle: Why do more and more Americans think college isn’t even worth it?

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

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However, research has demonstrated a clear underrepresentation of minority community college trustees (Moltz, 2009) with no progress being made in hiring African American administrators (Levin, Walker et al., Their colleges are leading the way, openly sharing models that embed diversity, equity, and inclusion. Dr. Carl B.

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Strong Networks Help Turn Black Faculty into University Presidents

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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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New Book Centers the Voices of Black Women Department Chairs

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It is filled with information based on lived experiences of Black women who are currently administrators. The responsibility of leading an academic department — particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing attacks on affirmative action and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts — has increasingly become daunting.

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UPitt Dean Works to Advance Equity in Policy, Practice

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Furthermore, bylaws and governance structure of the school have been overhauled to make them more equitable, engaging, and inclusive of perspectives particularly from people whose voices often are not heard in higher ed, she said. “If While diversity and inclusion are important, Kinloch also focuses on equity and justice. “I

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Because several minoritized professors are being hired at once, they are less likely to be tokenized and burdened with extra diversity, equity, and inclusion work. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three.

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