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Empowering Change: Four Key Strategies for Supporting Student Affairs Administrators in the New Affirmative Action Landscape

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These communities of practice should be spaces where student affairs educators at all levels and in all functional areas come together to learn, grow, and problem-solve with other professionals committed to positive personal and institutional transformation.

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Life and Learning, the Washington Way

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Dr. Jamie Washington — an educator, author, student affairs administrator, pastor, consultant, president and co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI), past-president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and much more. Do no harm. It isn’t easy work.

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ELLEN REYNOLDS

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Ellen Reynolds Ellen Reynolds has been named vice president for student affairs at the University of Rhode Island.

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Six-Year Completion Rates Stall Across the Nation, Report Finds

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Dr. Frank Fernandez, assistant professor of higher education leadership and policy at the University of Florida. “We Smith, assistant professor of higher education and student affairs at Auburn University in Alabama. “If are completing, we’re losing four out of ten students — that’s not good. Dr. Travis C.

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Succession Planning in HBCUs Ensures Long-Term Sustainability

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This process includes the board of trustees, senior administrators, department heads, faculty members, and human resources professionals. Academic leadership: Developing a pipeline of leaders for academic positions, including department chairs, deans, and academic program directors. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars

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School of Social Work, Clark Atlanta Universit Dr. Ja'Bette Lozupone , director of student affairs, Montgomery College Dr. Darris R. Gerald Carter , assistant professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology (EEOB), The Ohio State University Dr. Nathaniel Currie , assistant professor, Whitney M.

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Trash Talk as Resistance: It's Nothing New

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Ferguson Is an Assistant Professor of Educational leadership and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs And Inclusive Excellence. While we claim and have been directed to become ten times better, this superpower narrative, creates a different "normal" that is impossible to keep up with for any length of time.