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Caring Campus, developed by the Institute for Evidence-Based Change, intentionally equips staff and faculty with strategies and tools to create a welcoming, supportive environment for every student. We celebrate our staff and faculty who go above and beyond in their interactions with students through weekly shoutouts.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Her inspiration to take on the presidency of Cal State LA was fueled by its mission of fortifying the workforce of California, serving students who are first-generation, low-income and from underrepresented groups, having stellar faculty and committing to the student experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Old Dominion University’s (ODU) Darden College of Education and Professional Studies is launching a program to help address disparities in the number of minorritized higher ed faculty. The priority deadline for applications for the two- to three-person initial cohort is Dec. To be eligible, applicants must be a second-year Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

Nicastro, West Chester University; Dr. Jeff Martoff, Temple University; Dr. Ronald Krauss, Transportation Security Laboratory Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: It sounds silly but say yes to the things you want to do and no to the things you do not want to do. physics education, West Chester University; M.A.,

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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. Increased faculty communication and outreach began with the fruitful communications participants had with other members of the CCLP Roadrunner cohort.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2024

Some members of the faculty at Columbia University have lodged a vote of no-confidence for the university’s president, Dr. Minouche Shafik. These administrators are failing in their duty to their institutions, their faculty, their students, and their central obligation to our democratic society.

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MAY 2, 2025

The funding and mentorship support I received through that program were vital in helping me prepare application materials to apply for graduate school and figure out how to navigate and thrive in academia as a woman of color, Tran explains. She went on to earn both her M.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. They’re on a journey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

All of her personal and professional experiences created a presidential presence that stood out from an exceptional field of over 75 applicants," said Janet Lopez, chair of the FLC Board of Trustees. The selection of an Indigenous leader for FLC is particularly significant given the institution's complicated history.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Title V allows us to meet academic needs in really wonderful ways with tutoring and professional development for faculty, but our students have a lot of other needs and we’re seeing that more and more,” said Fabrizio. There are needs with food, housing, mental health support and counseling. …

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MARCH 3, 2025

In graduate school, we began exchanging documents for awards, fellowships, grants, and other opportunities and we realized that while our research was separate, it was also complementary, allowing us to strengthen each others applications. Thats how this all began. You should come to this conference. asked Samuel.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A transformational paradigm shift is needed in the curation of how Black boys and young men are seen and how educators and practitioners - school counselors, teachers, resource officers, administrators, postsecondary faculty and staff - work with them. Center their voices.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

The statement, " Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Criteria for Faculty Evaluation ", issued by the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure , observes that colleges and universities may legitimately—and, according to AAUP recommendations, should—aim to recruit and retain diverse student and faculty bodies and to promote “teaching, research, (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

There have been countless hours of prayer, listening, seeking, reading resumes and other application materials, while asking God to guide this process and have His way," said Tommy Kiker, chair of the presidential search committee. "We We believe God has graciously and wonderfully answered those prayers and blessed this labor."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2025

As a first-generation Black college graduate from a low-income family, I reaped the benefits of mentorship from faculty and staff who come from similar backgrounds. However, the constant rejections and application fatigue forced me to question my purpose, compelling me to reconsider my "why." I believed the next job might fill the gap.

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Student Research Foundation

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

From crafting your application essays to navigating standardized tests , there’s a lot to keep track of. Creating a college application checklist is a great way to stay on top of things—and we’ve got one to help you get started. However, actually fulfilling college application requirements requires some planning and forethought.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

So, he submitted a letter of application to the college. “I He understands the challenges that Black faculty and administrators face at predominantly white institutions. In 1960, a newspaper ad was run in the local newspaper that caught Robinson’s attention. It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

So, he submitted a letter of application to the college. “I He understands the challenges that Black faculty and administrators face at predominantly white institutions. In 1960, a newspaper ad was run in the local newspaper that caught Robinson’s attention. It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

Our dean is telling the faculty to be creative and to come up with other ways to shape it or frame it so that theyre not using the trigger words, because the trigger words, whether we like it or not, is whats causing grants to either be denied, applications to be pushed back and funding to not be released, the attendee said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Applications from under-represented students increased by 10% during his first academic year. Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

The suit accuses the school’s faculty and administration of snubbing high-profile white male applicants. Northwestern has one among its nine residential tax faculty. Researchers have shown that employers use names to discriminate against Black applicants. Neither Stanford nor the University of Chicago have any.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In 2020, at the height of the COVID pandemic, most higher education institutions opted to eliminate the requirement that applicants submit standardized test scores such as the ACT and SAT. These findings show that a holistic review of applicants can predict academic success without requiring ACT or SAT scores. Dr. Suzanne M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Faculty and Black groups at Michigan State University (MSU) are calling for campus stakeholders to be able to interview MSU’s sole presidential candidate, given his role in a number of race-related controversies , The State News reported. The interview would be open to all MSU representatives.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Dartmouth College plans to reinstate the standardized test requirement for applicants to the Class of 2029 and beyond, reports The Dartmouth. Dartmouth applicants will be required to take and submit scores from the SAT or ACT college entrance exams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Research suggests that we send cues affecting underrepresented students’ aspirations, application, and enrollment decisions through three channels: public policies, admissions requirements, and recruitment and advising interactions. Application rates ripple to enrollment rates, and those impact the decisions of cohorts that follow.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Also, it is set to increase the number of HBCU graduates who participate in post-baccalaureate programs that facilitate opportunities to conduct independent research under the supervision of a faculty member, meet first-year graduate students, and participate in workshops that prepare them for application to Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

Equipped with 14 chapters, The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education offers readers diversified theoretical insights and real-world examples for practical application. The book explores various old and new leadership theories and models, and the authors intelligently argue which theories are more beneficial than others.

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Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Choosing a major on your college applications Some college application requirements include selecting the major you are most interested in on your application. However, other schools may have a limited number of spots in a specific major or a more rigorous application process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In response to Abbott’s memo, Texas A&M University in College Station recently said it changed hiring policies, with the vice president of faculty affairs telling deans to look at only cover letters, resumes, personal statements, and professional references.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. In many units, the scholarship alone or largely determines whether the faculty member receives a favorable evaluation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. Steele remembers being at an event for new faculty. They were hiring three.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2024

American Bar Association American Bar Association The survey is a compilation of insights — gathered from 29 law school deans or faculty members between December 2023 and February 2024 — on the integration of AI into legal education. But 62% of law school had not decided how to approach the use of generative AI by applicants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

“These administrators are failing in their duty to their institutions, their faculty, their students, and their central obligation to our democratic society,” the AAUP statement said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

The committee also analyzed whether to reinstate the university’s standardized test score requirement (or sustain its interim “test-optional” policy) and modify existing preferences for applicants with family connections.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

To remedy these issues, the researchers recommended student-focused initiatives, such as grants, scholarships, application process assistance, financial aid assistance. "We We found that the diversity of applicants to public health programs has improved, but diversity in enrollments continues to lag," the study authors wrote.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Keeping track of the students’ academic progress will provide the postsecondary institutions with adequate information to make offers of direct admissions at the appropriate time, where acceptance and a guaranteed spot is extended even before an application is submitted. Coordinated scholarly presentations.

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