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Racialized Agency as a Buffer for K-16 Black Students in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 1993, the federal government issued what we consider the most equitable and culturally responsive definition for advanced learners. These children and youth exhibit high performance capability in intellectual, creative, and/or artistic areas, possess an unusual leadership capacity, or excel in specific academic fields.

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Paradigm Shift: DEI, Anti-DEI, or Underrepresentation?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This backdrop was on the minds of panelists in preparation for their presentation, entitled, A State of Affairs: The Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees, which convened at the recent Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT, 2024) Leadership Congress in Seattle, WA. Having an advocate or mentor is critical.

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Leading From the Intersection

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014). Having an advocate or mentor is critical We found that the presence of a mentor in the life of the trustee was critical to the participants’ successful selection or election as trustee. Dr. Margaretta B.

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Diversity at HBCUs Explored at NCAA Inclusion Forum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That’s not true, said panelists who added that the definition of diversity has to be broadened and expanded beyond the contours of race. “All The annual NCAA Inclusion Forum convened more than 650 students, faculty, athletic directors, and administrators. All Black students are not the same,” said Frank D.

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The Equity Educator - Dr. Angelica Witcher Walker

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Virginia Tech Career Mentors: Dr. Karen Eley Sanders, Dr. Aubrey Knight, Dr. Azziza Bankole, Dr. Shelvy Campbell-Monroe, and Carol Lynn Maxwell-Thompson, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. This work inspired her to pursue a Ph.D.

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women now receive around 40% of STEM PhDs — far from parity but a definite improvement. Although women publish less than men, they do more of the sort of necessary work that isn’t respected by promotion boards, like mentoring and service activities. But as time has passed, that excuse has rung less true. Several facts stand out.

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