Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

If you look up the book definition of intersectionality, you can identify the sociological framework suggested by Kimberl Crenshaw in the 1980s that explains how complex power structures of individuals and groups combine, or intersect, in patterns of discrimination and privilege across multiple factors such as gender, race, and class.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

in educational leadership, enabling her to deepen her impact by developing innovative strategies to improve access, equity, and success in higher education. I know there are students out there that could definitely succeed, they just need the resources. This work inspired her to pursue a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Women now receive around 40% of STEM PhDs — far from parity but a definite improvement. Dr. Roberta Rincon “The ADVANCE program has been a game-changer for higher ed,” says Dr. Travis York, director of inclusive STEMM ecosystems for equity & diversity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

This incident is in direct opposition to our institutional values supporting diversity, equity and inclusion, and we unequivocally denounce this and all expressions of hate, prejudice and discrimination," UD said. The swastika was drawn on a poster promoting a drag performance the professor organized years ago.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

California community college professors are suing state officials, alleging that new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) rules put in place violated their First Amendment rights, The Hill reported. These regulations are a totalitarian triple-whammy,” FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Research revealed that all but one of these award-winning colleges had a board-influenced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandate. The research demonstrated that valuing those not like you cannot be forced and must become part of the culture of the college if we are to achieve true equity and inclusion.

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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. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. Creating data management systems in real time so that staff are trained to use that data and to think about it as an equity tool.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He fears that the attacks on diversity will likely increase as the 2024 presidential election grows nearer. “I am definitely concerned, but that’s why I wanted to be in this space,” said Foster. Sayvon Foster, an assistant professor of sports management, who is a first-time ASHE attendee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Ahmed – who is vice provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Vermont – has been working in the field of diversity for over 20 years, educating, consulting, and training people about DEI matters, mostly focused on higher ed. I think that there's definitely antisemitism on campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Ron DeSantis’s (R) proposed plans to defund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at state colleges and universities. What happened to me is definitely influenced by a toxic political culture, and it’s my opinion that the university is playing a role,”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Concurrently, in some cases, state legislatures are passing bans or limits on diversity/equity/inclusion programs, racial equity training for faculty and staff, the teaching of Black history, and classroom discussion on topics related to critical race theory. Another dynamic is a new form of segregation emerging as the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

No one knows exactly where we stand on the most important matters of racial equity. To take away equity paths for people of color and leave us all in the dark. Without the data, it’s hard to tell anything definitively. That’s what happens when you buy into the colorblind fantasy. This is what the colorblind wanted, of course.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JULY 23, 2024

These changes, informed by extensive public engagement, aim to modernize and standardize race and ethnicity data collections to improve uniformity and comparability across federal data sets and their usefulness for equity-driven policymaking. Previously, MENA was included under the definition of White.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

No one knows exactly where we stand on the most important matters of racial equity. To take away equity paths for people of color and leave us all in the dark. Without the data, it’s hard to tell anything definitively. That’s what happens when you buy into the colorblind fantasy. This is what the colorblind wanted, of course.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Employers, he says, are making it clear that they believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion. “We We can’t back away from this,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

definitely sets this fellowship apart,” Williams says. "I think being able to connect students from rural backgrounds, some of the rural HBCUs, and bringing them into New York City, to an institution like Columbia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Dr. Mark Henderson Henderson says the measure definitely influenced the enrollment of “historically excluded groups.” We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.” Those students’ enrollments went way down, across the system. Dr. David A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I believe that this was in the third grade when my district tested all of the children for inclusion in the gifted education programs. Attempts to develop an accurate definition and measure of "intelligence" have been fraught with difficulty and controversy. My personal experiences continue to inform me professionally. Dr. Edward C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2024

EAB 2024 Parent Survey EAB 2024 Parent Survey Haywood said JCSU has found it necessary to re-educate parents and caretakers about the financial aid process, including explaining new definitions and types of aid. “We Beyond cost concerns, mental health (cited by 56% of parents) and student safety are significant concerns noted in the paper.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

He joined the faculty of Connecticut College in 2003, and was an associate professor of history, director of the African American studies program as well as interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion, chair of the history department and director of the Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

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Student Privacy Compass

JULY 23, 2024

School leaders should clearly determine whether any data shared falls under the definition of a student education record or directory information as defined by FERPA, and ensure that proper consent and opt-out mechanisms are in place. Has the purpose of the fundraiser been clearly defined and communicated?

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Catherine Cronin

MAY 12, 2023

This open access book, a collection of work by over 70 authors in 18 countries, offers ways of thinking, conceptualising and creating possibilities for (re)making higher education, focusing on futures that foreground inclusion, equity, social justice, care and sustainability. So, how did this belief translate into practice?

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We're committed to educational equity and we focus on students from 11th grade all the way through to college graduation. JW: Yeah, I can definitely do that. So we've talked a little bit about how the communication process isn't necessarily perfect and there's definitely room for improvement. Yeah, definitely.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

The findings come as student definitions of campus safety have evolved beyond traditional physical security concerns. The survey data revealed that more students dropped schools for being "too conservative" than "too liberal," with higher-income students more likely than their peers to remove colleges across all political categories.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Visualization based on definitions of positive stress, tolerable stress, and toxic stress from the US National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. The graphic below summarizes promising priorities for institutional action to promote wellbeing, equity and learning among marginalized sociodemographic groups in postsecondary education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The lawsuit specifically challenges the orders' lack of clear definitions for terms such as "DEI," "equity," and "illegal DEIA," arguing that this vagueness makes compliance virtually impossible for institutions while potentially exposing them to significant federal enforcement actions.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And another thing that we're also seeing is that chief student affairs officers are really looking into how do I create a sense of belonging for Latino and Black men on campus, but also create equity across the board for all students, right? I definitely remember how tough that moment was. And so on and so forth. It's a great resource.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

To define and explore who I was, did not have to be based on the definitions and experiences of the otherespecially when the other was outside of the Black diaspora. The signature refrain not like us , Toni Morrisons definition of the white gaze , and Feagins paradigm the White Racial Frame all held me along with 133.5

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EAB

MARCH 7, 2023

SS: So can you impact change clearly commenting directly on issues like student health and safety on a campus, or anything that aligns with your values and missions might be something you wanna comment, but definitely in that space about student health and safety. So those would definitely be the mistakes. SS: Don't we all?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Following up plans for educational access and equity with actions has become the hallmark of Grand Valley State University, which has a statewide presence in Michigan. Bernal, chief of staff to the president and vice president for inclusion and equity. After the death of George Floyd in 2020, Dr. Philomena V.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

So, to answer your first question, I definitely agree that universities, campuses want to diversify. WL: And that definitely changed my perspective of which type of institution is going to see me as a viable candidate. I know we are in a chaotic place. And it's a very rare, complicated time for a lot of reasons. WL: Correct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Consider this: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 updated definition of burnout includes three dimensions: “Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Ford Yet, despite this, far too many equity efforts die on the vine. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Day, the Centennial Conference announced its creation of a three-year strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plan, uniting the conference’s 11 private, Division III institutions in a shared mission to make their athletics programs a place where all students, particularly those in marginalized populations, feel they belong.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

is to embarrass elite institutions by calling out a few examples that, while definitely do need to be addressed, dont always tell the full picture. However, what the newly released House Antisemitism Staff Report demonstrates is that is not the path on which they are being led. We need to fix what is happening on our college campuses.We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2025

Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a block on executive orders issued by President Donald Trump seeking to end government support for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. The Associated Press reported that on Friday, the 4th U.S. The appeals court decision lifts a nationwide injunction issued by U.S.

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