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A Pioneer for Change - Dr. Brittany Williams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. She delighted in academic challenge, but she was also aware that many students from minoritized backgrounds did not feel that same joy and elation in school.

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students. I had already been taking part in the sit-ins and civil rights demonstrations, so when I read that article in the paper, I knew that too, was something I could do something about,” he recalls. “So, Flagship Pathway Scholarship Endowment in 2021.

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students. I had already been taking part in the sit-ins and civil rights demonstrations, so when I read that article in the paper, I knew that too, was something I could do something about,” he recalls. “So, Flagship Pathway Scholarship Endowment in 2021.

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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million students enrolled in colleges and universities. Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college.

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College Fund Offers American Indian Law School Scholarship to Attend Harvard Law

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Indian College Fund has announced its third American Indian Law School Scholarship for a student entering Harvard Law School in the fall of 2024. Samantha Maltais, an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, is the current scholarship recipient.

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

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Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Black undocumented students] are invisibilized.

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A Scholar’s Fight for Community Power - Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That explains quite a bit about Gomezs scholarship, teaching methods and service. Im very blessed to be able to work with artists and activists and to think about how to utilize the things they teach me to create a classroom environment where I respect the knowledge and traditions our students bring in, Gomez says.

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