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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Because several minoritized professors are being hired at once, they are less likely to be tokenized and burdened with extra diversity, equity, and inclusion work. Louis Filmmakers Showcase and is scheduled to screen at the St.

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2023 Women's College Basketball Another Mile-Marker in Title IX

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

People before me in leadership positions … and others have been fighting these battles for many years for equity and also for investment in order to grow. “If there’s a role that women’s basketball has played, I think it’s the fact that it spurred more transparent, open and public dialogue around doing what is right with gender equity.”

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Teacher-Researcher Crafts More Efficient Transportation Systems

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dipayan Banerjee, a fifth-year doctoral student at Georgia Institute of Technology with a passion for teaching, is pursuing research that can have a societal impact regarding logistics and supply chain management as well as equity and fairness in the context of transportation.

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Changing the Face of Nursing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

You probably over-prepare for meetings,” says Dr. Rolanda Johnson, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. It's in our professional practice to begin with, to advocate for equity in health care,” says Williams. You’re] constantly analyzing things.”

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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, start by having students write an initial draft of their potential college admission essay on the first day of high school and schedule updates with experiences throughout the school years, up until the student submits a completed essay with their college applicaitons. Concerned alumni groups. It must also be a call to action.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Beck, administrators, faculty, staff, and student leadership have used data and intentional practices to re-center campus culture around an equity-minded student success agenda and solidify strategic direction in closing equity gaps. Intentional course scheduling has played a role in student success.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I wanted to be a dean at a college or school of education that mattered.” Michigan State University stuck out right from the start. “As As I looked at the opportunity from an objective standpoint, it, to me, seemed to rise to the top of opportunities because it was a highly regarded college of education,” says Jackson.

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