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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college. This stifles Black student success and contributes to low graduation rates from high schools.

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Reimagining Black Male Success in Education: Moving from Marginalization to Empowerment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As Black male scholars deeply invested in education reform, we believe it is essential to reshape the narrative surrounding Black males, especially in academia. It is imperative to view Black males as capable achievers whose success is indispensable to a healthy and diverse educational landscape (Goings et al., Dr. Adriel A.

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Promises, Promises: Agency, Self-Actualization, the Higher Ed Social Contract

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Financial allocations must reflect an understanding of the institutional effectiveness goals, what is required to attain them, and the real value for target student success outcomes. Higher education leadership must emphasize its key role in a vision of a society that centers, involves and supports people in the community.

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Scholar-Activist Returns Home: Dr. Kala Burrell-Craft Named Dean of Grambling State's College of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burrell-Craft has a proven track record of fostering collaboration, promoting research, and prioritizing student success," said Walton.

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Clinton College Appoints Dr. Pamela Richardson Wilks as 14th President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wilks, who brings more than 25 years of experience in higher education leadershipprimarily at Historically Black Colleges and Universitieswill officially begin her tenure on June 1, 2025. I am deeply honored to serve as the next President of Clinton College," said Wilks.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Developing policies supporting strategic goals and values to retain open access and success for all students is mission centric. Creating a Senior Leadership Council to reinforce cultural appreciation and diversity strategies that foster inclusion are to be measurable. in press, p. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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Algorithmic Bias Continues to Negatively Impact Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As institutions of higher education turn to AI machine learning and data-driven algorithms to make their work more efficient, a new study published in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) peer-reviewed journal , AERA Open , reminds administrators that algorithms can be racially biased.

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