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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Like, how could I honor both of those things to be true?” McMillan Cottom received her Ph.D. Sociology helped McMillan Cottom grapple with her questions, but she approached them intentionally through a Black feminist lens. “I

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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Lauded at Dr. John Hope Franklin Reception

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shirley Ann Jackson, noted physicist who recently retired as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), was honored with a Dr. John Hope Franklin Award last Friday night by Diverse. Jackson was the first African American woman to lead a top-ranked research university. Dr. Freeman A. Congratulations.”