Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Black males need support from childhood through graduate education to improve, fulfill, and correct inequitable access to careers in science and engineering. Burt is a professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The report, titled “The Heart Work of Hard Work: Black Teacher Pipeline Best Practices at HBCU Teacher Education Programs,” found that teacher certification exams used to screen effectiveness eliminated nearly 100,000 minority teachers in 35 states between the late 1970s and early 1990s. Brittny James were also authors of the report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? When the first edition of what was then called Black Issues In Higher Education was published on March 15, 1984, it was two days before my 14th birthday, and I was still adjusting to ninth grade in a public high school after attending a private school from second grade to eight grade.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2023

The current budget crisis at West Virginia University (WVU) underscores the vital role of education in safeguarding justice in the digital age. WVU, the state's crowning educational jewel, faces a daunting $45 million budget deficit. When these institutions face threats, the effects ripple throughout society.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For colleges and universities to close these equity gaps, they must address the core of the student experience: the time that students spend in the classroom. Recognizing the key role of faculty in this work, we established the Equity Champions (EC) , a faculty community of practice intentionally designed to build relationships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

The power of collaboration and the importance of building paths for others to follow were topics , front and center , during the 2024 White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence. The alliance launched in 2022 at the first White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence. And we just can't let more time go by.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A brand-new video series that highlights the diverse experiences of Black boys and men in the science, technology, engineering and mathematic (STEM) fields, has launched under the direction of a prominent researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Brian A. Dr. Brian A. Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

Cindy Trejo, author of a new report produced by the Rutgers University’s Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice, what the school does is simply “magic.” “I To me, that's just a beautiful story about equity and about having that inclusive mindset that doesn't see risk factors. And they nurture that.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Furman University and 14 other institutions have collectively been awarded $8.625 million to improve inclusion for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This group, smaller in number, comprised almost exclusively Black and brown graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. I met with a similar group of peers about a week or two later for an evening gathering to wind down the week. Please share the website, the videos, and the handouts with others.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's 2024 Emerging Scholars shared sentiments of drive, hope, community, and validation during a webinar Thursday. Highlighted with individual profiles throughout the magazine, the 15 scholars hail from a range of academic disciplines – including education, STEM, and architecture – and cultural backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The ACPS, conducted by the American Council on Education and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) Institute, found that 61% of college presidents surveyed were men, and 46% were white men. Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Title: Assistant Vice President, Educational Partnerships, Valencia College Davis-Lowe currently serves as assistant vice president for partnerships for educational equity at Valencia College. Davis-Lowe researches STEM diversity, higher education, educational policy and teaching methods.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. Leyva is an associate professor of Mathematics Education & STEM Higher Education in the Vanderbilt University-Peabody College of Education & Human Development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests. Students can be “ cooled out ” of higher education, but they can also be “warmed up.” Humans are no different.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. With the implementation of policies and initiatives that encourage gender equity, we believe that the enrollment numbers will continue to improve.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

He directs the Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity at Rice University, where he has taught, among other subjects, engineering and computational applied mathematics and operations research. “We SACNAS has always come at it as strength-based rather than deficit minded,” Lambert continued. “So, But I’m not elitist ….

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

It becomes an equity issue,” said Kim Hughes, director of the UTeach Institute at the University of Texas. Although HBCUs make up just 3% of colleges in the US, they produce nearly a quarter of Black students with STEM bachelor’s degrees and a quarter of Black students with bachelor’s degrees in education. The answer is yes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The individuals and organizations chosen are those whose contributions to higher education are consistent with the highest standards of excellence. She had a love for mathematics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Sethuraman Panchanathan The report, “ Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities 2023 ,” is a federal attempt to investigate diversity trends in STEM employment and education. NCSES is part of the NSF. "Our population, the report found.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. Five years from now, Byrd and Mason want their membership to reach 100 higher education institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Operations Research Education: B.S., As they explored things such as changing school start times and bus schedules, he saw the equity issues that could arise. While addressing a problem in a for-profit industry is different from a project like public school transportation, he said the mathematics of it intrigued him.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Dipayan Banerjee, a fifth-year doctoral student at Georgia Institute of Technology with a passion for teaching, is pursuing research that can have a societal impact regarding logistics and supply chain management as well as equity and fairness in the context of transportation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2022

And diversity includes clearly includes diluting it to the point where there is equity." The Center of Academic Excellence program is designed to ensure that institutions of higher education, their curriculum and their studies are aligned to, what are effectively, best practices in the area of cybersecurity."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Gonzales, education is a lifelong calling. Despite other opportunities available to him, he decided to pursue a degree in mathematics secondary education. Gonzales’ passion for education has culminated in a swift rise to being named chancellor of the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) last September.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In October 2022, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a new report where, again, Black students lagged behind white students on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) also known as the Nation’s Report Card. Years later, our experiences still haunt us.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Educational leaders discuss how to partner with businesses on the third day of the Dream Conference. The Dream conference is hosted annually by Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education. Stout, president and CEO of ATD. Stout, president and CEO of ATD.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The school is now eligible for Title V HSI funds that can support student recruitment, education, sense of belonging, and completion. Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education. The 2021 Latinx population in the U.S. totaled 62.5 million, just under 20% of the U.S. asks Delgado.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. Sanders says CEED makes sure that Virginia Tech undergraduates are exposed to graduate education. I believe CEED is a national model,” Sanders says. “If

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The company is dedicated to fostering diversity, equity and inclusion in the tech sector around the world. SMART provides students with the tools needed to pursue higher education and begin a civilian career with the DoD. Or looking to expand your technical skills? Department of Defense (DoD) workforce.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

Ascendium Education Group , a nonprofit organization committed to helping people reach their education and career goals, has awarded the Pell Institute at the Council for Opportunity in Education a $748,000 grant to research TRIO programs. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Among both consistently and increasingly demanded skills, several data science-related skills emerged, including “data analysis,” “data science,” “mathematics,” “SQL ( programming language ),” and “R (programming language).”. The 4 biggest challenges facing graduate and adult education programs, according to presidents and provosts.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

Leadership Opportunities Are Everywhere For most of her years working in higher education, Chancellor Larive was more interested in being a faculty member and lab administrator than moving into campus leadership. As she put it, "I really like doing science." We do that every day at universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As numerous fellows entered the African American Hall of Fame at Morehouse College, the Dean of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Division, Dr. Eddie Red, delivered a welcoming message, expressing his aspiration to one day be featured on the wall, as he, like many of us present, is destined for a greater purpose.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education ( Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education, Vol. & Alexander, L.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Middleton Social media is neither honest about nor friendly toward Black males in P-12 and higher education. Moreover, Hines, Fletcher, and Moore (in press) have noted, “Since the early 2000s, Black men and boys have garnered increasing attention in the education theoretical and scientific literature” (p. Hines, Donna Y.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Council for Opportunity in Education Applauds the University of Louisiana-Lafayette for Inaugurating the Carmouche TRIO Alumni Association September 5, 2024 — by Terrance L. The Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) commends the University of Louisiana-Lafayette for establishing the Carmouche TRIO Alumni Association. . –

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