Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

While community colleges play a crucial role in providing accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations, many still struggle to fully accommodate students with disabilities, according to insights from community college students, faculty, and higher education experts. Its not innate for everyone, says Trent.

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As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. Our higher education institutions must reflect this reality and prepare students for the world they will inherit.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

McMickens’s scholarship centers on historically marginalized and underserved populations that suffer from inequities, particularly in higher education. The research is rich and ever-manifesting on college campuses for McMickens, an associate professor of higher education and the director of the M.S.Ed.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, Howard University Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., Sáenz says Burmicky came to UT Austin already an experienced higher education practitioner who wanted to do research on problems of practice with an equity lens.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

This is the most fulfilling career choice I have ever made, said Kendi, who is currently a professor at Boston University but has held teaching positions at American University, University of Florida and SUNY Albany. "I I have had my eye on the Mecca my entire career, studying its history and witnessing what Howard means to the culture.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Carnevale from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce makes a compelling case that U.S. A key focus to achieve these goals is incorporating race-conscious and equity-minded criteria into annual performance evaluations. Economist Dr. Anthony P.

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MARCH 12, 2025

I intentionally mentor others, helping them navigate the challenges of higher education leadership and empowering them to take ownership of their journeys. These experiences have given me a unique lens through which I approach leadership, prioritizing equity, access, and the holistic well-being of our students.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In my journey to seek generational wealth so did a rising devotion to teaching financial literacy to Blacks and Brown communities. Soon, I will be teaching a course on working with children and youth who live in poverty. Begin teaching financial literacy in elementary school. We were low income, free and reduced lunch status.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

in educational leadership, enabling her to deepen her impact by developing innovative strategies to improve access, equity, and success in higher education. Witcher Walkers dedication to advancing diversity and equity in medical education led her to become the leader of what is now called the Diversity Education Thread.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

For example, Black students in P-12 schools tend to be suspended at higher rates than their racial peers and the belief is that this discipline will teach Black students a lesson to behave in class. Teach students how to be self-advocates - asking for help and speaking up about concerns. Dr. Erik M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This lack of representation has long been blamed as a pipeline problem — that there are fewer women receiving STEM PhDs and therefore fewer candidates to teach. To make the situation on campus clearer, Bradley will be introducing an equity dashboard full of statistics that previously were found in a dozen different places, according to Hogan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. She will replace Dr. Shaun R. Harper agrees. “I

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JANUARY 17, 2024

She would like to see underrepresented and marginalized students thrive and succeed in higher education. Dueñas’ scholarship addresses issues of equity and access in higher education with a focus on sense of belonging and experiences with imposter syndrome among Latinx students attending four-year colleges and universities.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They see ChatGPT writing papers, maniacal zealots indoctrinating young minds with woke, left-wing ideology, or, alternatively, right-wing idealogues banning books and prohibiting the honest teaching of history. Higher education is a public good because i t benefits not only individuals , but also society as a whole.

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MAY 20, 2024

The Leadership Alliance is a consortium of 41 leading research and teaching colleges, universities, and private industry dedicated to increasing the participation of underrepresented and underserved students in Ph.D. training programs. This call is extended to all to embrace the complexities of today’s academic environment.

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MARCH 24, 2024

PHILADELPHIA— Despite the ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education, more than a thousand educators gathered in-person and virtually late last week to share strategies and brainstorm ways to center equitable outcomes for the students who attend their institutions.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As such, this global movement has forced us to revisit what and how topics and issues are taught in Pre-K-12 and higher education courses; as such, it has forced us to confront the sources of white supremacy, intolerance, and anti-Blackness and hate based on race and ethnicity. chronicity).

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JULY 9, 2024

We were not reducing equity gaps,” said Stout, recalling her Dallas Herring Lecture, an annual event at the Belk Center. “I Dr. Kristin Redfield, an instructional coordinator for English at Forsyth Tech with 25 years of teaching experience, is co-director of the Piedmont Hub. They’re in the classroom right now, teaching,” said Jaeger.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Chan School of Public Health Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Always strive to see the bigger picturehow your teaching, research, and advocacy can ripple outward to impact lives. She says that she aims to help students recognize how power, equity, and inclusion shape healthcare outcomes.

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OCTOBER 27, 2024

While MSIs play a key role in promoting faculty diversity by consistently employing more educators of color than other institutions, MSI faculty also face pressures, such as heavy teaching and advising loads, high expectations for research and publishing, and limited resources for career development.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Kyung Kate Hyun, an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), and deputy director of The Center for Transportation, Equity, Decisions, and Dollars at the U.S. Department of Transportations University Transportation Center.

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MARCH 5, 2023

Valerie Kinloch Kinloch does the work in her leadership role as the Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean of University of Pittsburgh’s (UPitt) School of Education, a position she has held since July 2017. In that time, Kinloch said she has strived to bolster equity and justice at the school. Smith University. is bad,” Kinloch said.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. We aim to eliminate equity gaps and continue to transform our institution into a Hispanic-graduating institution.” Santiago and Sarita E.

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MARCH 5, 2025

Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, a leading educational psychologist, holds the Robert A. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching at the University of Southern California (USC). She is the executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

college and university campuses will hold a nationwide Day of Action for Higher Education on April 17. American Association of University Professors chapters across the country are joining a grassroots effort to counter narratives that malign higher education. Faculty and student groups at more than 50 U.S.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Aspen subsequently began two intensive fellowships that select senior administrators with the qualities of exceptional presidents and teach lessons from the field about how to achieve exceptional and equitable levels of student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She is an associate professor and graduate program coordinator for the MA in Higher Education at Montclair State University. from the prestigious Higher and Postsecondary Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Vega earned her Ed.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Student affairs leader Quamina Carter did not take a traditional route to higher education. in higher education and student affairs from CGU. in higher education and student affairs from CGU. Carter holds a B.S. in psychology from Tuskegee University, an M.S. Carter holds a B.S.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Because many postdocs transition into positions that involve teaching, communication and mentoring, effective education in these areas should be the standard.” million collaborative grant from the NSF will support a new research focus for the St.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Chaka Cummings has been appointed the inaugural executive director of The Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky. Woodson Center for Interracial Education at Berea College. It will work to help make sure that the contributions of Black Kentuckians are embedded into the teaching of state and national history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

The landscape of higher education has changed dramatically since the Eisenhower-era statute was implemented. As student demographics, educational needs, and workforce demands continue to evolve, the report argues that funding policies must keep pace.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

was in the fifth grade when the ideals of justice and civil rights were emblazoned into the mind of the man who has spent much of his storied career fighting for diversity and equity in education. She was teaching us the ideals of Black Pride long before the term was a thing. Theotis Robinson Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

was in the fifth grade when the ideals of justice and civil rights were emblazoned into the mind of the man who has spent much of his storied career fighting for diversity and equity in education. She was teaching us the ideals of Black Pride long before the term was a thing. Theotis Robinson Jr.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Leyva’s research explores how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarchy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM higher education. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

“This year’s recipients truly embody the commitment to excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership, and civic engagement that Pat Cross championed throughout her distinguished career,” said AAC&U President Dr. Lynn Pasquerella. “We The 2024 K.

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