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AB 705: Bold Policy, Implications for Equitable Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“When I first met with my advisor, I was excited to dive into my program,” says Maria, a first-generation community college student. As a college president, leading with this equity-focused lens means asking the hard questions: Are our most vulnerable students truly succeeding? I had always struggled with math.

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The Erosion of DEI in Higher Education: A Threat to Progress and National Strength

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Use your platform to champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within your university.

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A Race to Find Diverse Candidates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even though the landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education may have changed over the last three years, institutional and academic search firms say their commitment to identifying leaders, staff, and faculty who embody the essence of DEI work remains strong. and even around the world to fill key vacancies.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.” While this regional-conscience admissions policy was already in place before the SCOTUS ruling, Perry says that her admissions department still had to make some changes to ensure their admissions processes were in compliance.

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Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success

The University Innovation Alliance

Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success. Closing the Equity Gaps. Those equity gaps often stem from an outdated profile of the typical college student: a full-time, on-campus resident with an understanding of available resources and the bandwidth to seek those resources on their own.

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Key takeaways from government guidance on SCOTUS’s affirmative action ruling

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As Liam Knox of Inside Higher Ed put it , the ruling was “a vague and at times self-contradictory piece of jurisprudence that continues to frustrate colleges keen to maintain diversity without falling out of compliance.” Is promoting social mobility one of your institution’s primary goals?

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Ohio State University Discontinues Office of Diversity and Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These changes include discontinuing the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, ending programming under Student Life's Center for Belonging and Social Change, and renaming the Office of Institutional Equity to the Office of Civil Rights Compliance. These are difficult conversations, as we knew they would be.

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