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Building an Academic Space for Black Women Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In graduate school, we began exchanging documents for awards, fellowships, grants, and other opportunities and we realized that while our research was separate, it was also complementary, allowing us to strengthen each others applications. asked Samuel.

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Federal Funding Cuts Devastate Academic Public Health Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The more than 150 member institutions of ASPPH, representing over 103,000 faculty, staff, and students, form a nationwide network that trains the future public health workforce and generates lifesaving research, the report states. billion funding freeze affecting its medical and public health schools.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. Moreno at al.

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Rhodes College Awarded $800,000 for Research on Racial Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We strive to empower students, faculty, staff, and community members to address contemporary social issues through intellectual inquiry, reflective dialogue, and community action." Many of the historical documentation that takes place in the city surrounds the lead up to-and the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. Steele remembers being at an event for new faculty. They were hiring three.

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Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Yoshiko Harden While Scott’s investment in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is well-documented, her contributions to community colleges have not received as much attention. And through the latter, students can gain on-campus employment, mentorship from faculty or staff, and job skill development.

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Scholar Who Creates Inclusive Spaces - Dr. Melva Treviño Peña

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gabriela Torres, Wheaton College Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Community is everything! At The University of Rhode Island’s (URI) Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, much of Treviño Peña’s scholarship involves listening to and studying people. Treviño Peña has been a proud community builder.

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