Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It was a small unit, with fewer than five professors, and Mwantuali, an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was the only faculty member of color. “It Only around 60% of Black faculty believe that faculty of color are treated fairly. I was just trying to see how things go.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Janelle Scott has been voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Outside of AERA, Scott is a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a Dean’s Distinguished Research Fellow at Monash University, and member of the National Academy of Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

At Black and Belonging, Gray co-constructs initiatives with students that show the world how to affirm them and show their teachers how to teach them. Gray is also codesigning lapel pins with his mentees and selling them to raise money for their attendance at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Falling in love with the work of the professoriate While becoming a dean of a college of education was an early aspiration, that career trajectory took a detour once Jackson joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison some 22 years ago. “I I wanted to be a dean at a college or school of education that mattered.”

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

A challenge for launching interdisciplinary programs is that faculty and deans can fail to see how participation will help their bottom line. Faculty may also feel at capacity already, in teaching out the curriculum for existing majors, and feel they can’t add another obligation. we’re already interdisciplinary!”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

Black women as a whole can teach a masterclass on navigating “difficult situations,” but when it comes to discussing rest, saying “no”, and prioritizing wellness activities, we undoubtedly struggle. In all, Black woman educators, researchers, chairs, deans, directors, and presidents play a vital role in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

And since then, most faculty members and students have been thriving with either a hybrid model or in-person classes. President Joe Biden, left, is flanked by Secretary of Education Dr. “We started Black Issues In Higher Education simply because there was a void in the higher education community. He was 84 years old.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Years later, as higher education faculty in gifted and talented education, school counseling, mental health, and college and career readiness, we have the same and more concerns. In preparation for this op-ed, we reflected on the first time we became aware of test bias and unfairness. Years later, our experiences still haunt us.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

Academic Affairs is this incredible infrastructure for research, for teaching. But there are times in which the tables change and crisis emerges, something happens on your campus, something happens to a faculty member, something happens to a student, the world keeps spinning, and you can't stop. I think it's very valuable.

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