Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

In her timely and important book Beyond Implicit and Explicit Bias: Strategies for Healing the Root Causes of Inequity in Education , Dr. ClauDean ChiNaka Kizart offers a comprehensive roadmap for educators committed to creating more equitable learning environments. The books greatest strength lies in its practicality.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2025

As a college professor and administrator, the numerous parallels between lifeguarding and higher education are striking: the need to scan the horizon and anticipate problems, respond decisively in times of crisis, communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, and navigate (and help others navigate) changing and sometimes turbulent waters.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In a recent article , Diverse outlined the various mental health challenges students face today and discussed how educators can offer more effective support. An Inclusive Approach As educators passionate about and dedicated to the success of our students, we have an obligation to step in and play a role in alleviating this issue.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

A federal judge in New Hampshire delivered a significant legal victory Thursday for proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in education by granting a preliminary injunction against the U.S.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2025

It echoes in the lives of disabled people, especially Deaf and neurodivergent people, whose insights are essential to many fields in school and college education, design, and accessibility, yet who are too often excluded from schools, jobs, and public life. Disabled workers face an unemployment rate nearly double the national average.

International student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

JT Torres We have all heard stories of flawed approaches to inclusive teaching. The incident spread rapidly, picked up by conservative media outlets as another example of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) gone wrong in the classroom. Inclusive teaching? Here’s one. Even when we try to do everything right, teaching is hard.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

CANCUN—What started off in 2014 as a simple idea, has blossomed into a major convening, drawing more than 700 educators from K-12 school districts and colleges and universities together to strategize and share best practices on how to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing urban schools around the globe. Dr. Chance W.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

In a move that signals both continuity and transformation in higher education leadership, Dr. Charles Lee Isbell Jr. It marks the arrival of a scholar-administrator whose career has been defined by his efforts to democratize technology education and create pathways for underrepresented students in computing and artificial intelligence.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2025

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy What happens when we strip education of its resources, devalue its professionals, and politicize its purpose? Were finding out in real-time, and nowhere are the consequences more alarming than in our efforts to diversify the educator workforce. America is undergoing a calculated retreat in federal education policy.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

25, Moorea Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at The Ohio State University (OSU) and executive director of the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Centerwas awarded the Order of the Palmetto South Carolinas highest civilian honor established in 1971. Moore III trailblazers whose influence shaped his path to distinction. since 2018.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2025

billion is a staggering amount of public investment thats what states collectively spent in just one year on state-funded preschool, according to the latest report from the National Institute for Early Education Research. Removing Barriers, Supporting the Whole Educator ECIC is not a traditional top-down initiative.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma Age: 38 Education: B.S., Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D., Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA.,

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2025

Brian Burt A groundbreaking video series designed to support Black boys and men in STEM education has earned national recognition, highlighting the University of Wisconsin-Madison's commitment to diversity and inclusion in engineering fields.

STEM education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

College and university administrators should be strategic about how they respond to government attempts to root out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI) on campus. Thats what a bevy of scholars told attendees who gathered at the annual conference of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Last May, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Board of Governors voted to eliminate all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices. Being able to work with this community to set a new standard in journalism and media education and practice is truly inspiring. Im also guided by a quest for inclusion and student success.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Education advocates and immigration policy experts are warning of significant economic, and workforce impacts following Florida's decision to rescind in-state tuition waivers for undocumented students who graduated from Florida high schools.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

Why are women of color in higher education celebrated for their excellence yet set up to fail by the very systems that claim to value them? This isnt a personal failure; its a systemic issueand higher education is a microcosm of broader workplace inequities.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

While higher education is a path to opportunity — many underrepresented, minoritized students face systemic barriers that make their graduate-level academic experience feel like an uphill challenge. As educators, our role in supporting marginalized students and helping them navigate the barriers created by the “system” is crucial.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The evolution of how end-users obtain and utilize information spurred a new movement in education that LeiLani Cauthen described in her 2017 book, The Consumerization of Learning. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Supreme Court struck down race-consciousness in college admissions upending four decades of precedent and reshaping the landscape of higher education (Edelman, 2023, par. Expanding the definition of diversity to include diversity of opinion may elicit honest conversations and intentional/inclusive strategies. Dr. Margaretta B.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2025

A new report from StarRez reveals troubling trends in student housing that signal a fundamental shift in how higher education institutions must approach residential life. Perhaps most concerning is the report's finding that one in three institutions still lack formal mechanisms for measuring resident satisfaction.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Educators are uniquely responsible for guiding learners to pathways of knowledge, transformation, and empowerment. Higher education has entered a new era, one unlike previous eras of growth and expansion driven primarily by demographic growth and industrial expansion. Learn to win the battle in your mind.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

Along the way, I earned the necessary academic qualifications to pursue a career as an educator and administrator, with a guiding principle instilled in me by my high school’s motto: to always be a “man for others.” Throughout my career, I have been privileged to learn from some of the most thoughtful and respected leaders.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2025

Ono as the university's 14th president, despite intense scrutiny from conservative activists and Republican lawmakers who questioned his commitment to Florida's higher education reforms. Ron DeSantis's higher education overhauls that have dismantled DEI programs across Florida's public universities.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In an effort to provide an inclusive and dedicated college experience for diverse populations, The University of Phoenix is actively working to address the unique educational needs of tribal students through its Tribal Operations Team. That’s why we are here. We are here to help them be successful.”

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Milwaukee Area Technical College's inaugural vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion has filed a federal lawsuit against the institution, alleging retaliatory termination after she reported racial and disability discrimination concerns. Martin has since retired, and the college is now led by President Anthony Cruz, who is Hispanic.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

Chavous The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announced Monday that Dr. Tabbye M. Chavous, currently vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan, brings more than 25 years of experience as a scholar, researcher, and academic administrator to the position. "At

Educational research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

Strayhorn few years ago, Liu (2023) published, Everyone is Talking about Belonging in The Chronicle of Higher Education. There can be no question that this reflects a growing infrastructure to support belonging for all faculty, staff, and students in higher education. A Dr. Terrell L.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Todays heightened scrutiny of social and racial justice initiatives adds to the challenges Black students face in navigating both online spaces and higher education. For Black college students, these tensions manifest in ways that are both personal and political, often distracting from their educational goals.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a significant leadership transition at one of legal education's key institutions, the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) has appointed Sudha Setty as its new president and chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2025. Law schools and higher education face enormous challenges and opportunities," Setty said.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2025

Cruzado, who will assume the role on July 1, brings a deeply personal connection to the land-grant university mission, having begun her higher education journey as a first-generation college student at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagez. Waded Cruzado historic appointment as she becomes the first Latina to lead the organization.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2025

The project's emphasis on accessibility aligns with broader conversations in higher education about making scholarship more inclusive and publicly engaged. "This kind of knowledge about Black literary creativity and history grows through years of study and conversation."

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This is so much more than a traditional real estate project or campus housing development—it’s a statement about what higher education can be for all of us – those who attend our schools and those who do not,” said Dr. Michael J. PQC is the only minority-serving, federally recognized Work College in the nation. Our work with the T.D.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

The institute's research agenda is ambitious, targeting persistent inequities across multiple sectors including technology, healthcare, education, environmental issues, economics, governance, and the criminal legal system. Board of Education decision.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2025

Still, each of us was propelled by early access to academic support programs and the belief that higher education can and should be an engine for justice and transformation. Investing in staff as higher education’s next frontier We three newly minted Ph.D.s That commitment is not limited to the three of us. in Fall ’25.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They shared their convictions with their two sons, including the importance of education and social service. It took him awhile to connect the dots from his passion to higher education. Williams was raised Catholic and attended private institutions—he was often the only Black student in his class, or one of the few. Rovaris, Sr.,

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As one of the most prestigious public universities in America and a leader in promoting diversity, if DEI initiatives can be successfully reduced or eliminated at the University of Michigan, a chilling message would be sent throughout higher education and could represent the last stand for DEI at all universities.

Students