Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

Accessibility

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.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

A federal judge in New Hampshire delivered a significant legal victory Thursday for proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in education by granting a preliminary injunction against the U.S.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

And while his time with us has come to an untimely end, the lessons he imparted continue to teach. Ellis is a senior professorial lecturer at American University School of Education and the director of the Summer Institute on Education Equity and Justice. Rest in power, Malcolm-Jamal Warner. Dr. Antonio L.

Education

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. And that stuck with me,” he adds.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

Seventy-one percent of respondents said decision-making and AI initiatives are overwhelmingly led by college or university administrations, with many describing administrators pushing AI integration into research, teaching, and policy with little meaningful input from faculty, staff, or students.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

During my first year of teaching, I focused on providing academic support. You must set aside your personal experiences and biases and recognize the unique challenges today’s underrepresented students face, whether academic or otherwise, particularly on topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

I identify as a gay Black man, a practicing Catholic, and a multilingual leader with a doctorate in education and an emphasis in curriculum and teaching. I am a responsible steward of public funds, an enabler of equity, and a lover of knowledge. My primary mentors have been women of color, white women and gay men.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

Dr. Monica Parrish Trent, Chief Program and Network Officer at Achieving the Dream, an organization focused on creating student success and equity at community colleges, says that students with disabilities often face administrative hurdles in accessing accommodations, as well as social and sensory barriers in classrooms.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

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. Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, a leading educational psychologist, holds the Robert A.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

These experiences have given me a unique lens through which I approach leadership, prioritizing equity, access, and the holistic well-being of our students. I began teaching College Success courses to first generation, low income, multicultural students. As leaders, we are constantly evolving, learning, and growing.

Mentoring

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. And that stuck with me,” he adds.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. We aim to eliminate equity gaps and continue to transform our institution into a Hispanic-graduating institution.”

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

The sixty-four-year-old law remains literally unchanged while everything around it has transformedfrom technology to teaching methods to the students themselves. "If If we are truly committed to equity and student success," Goldsmith added, "we must modernize this law to align with the mission of today's community colleges."

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

JT Torres We have all heard stories of flawed approaches to inclusive teaching. The incident spread rapidly, picked up by conservative media outlets as another example of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) gone wrong in the classroom. Even when we try to do everything right, teaching is hard. Inclusive teaching?

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2025

As director of the CSUDH FDC, Chávez helped foster excellence in teaching, scholarship, creative activities, leadership, and service for all faculty at Dominguez Hills from an equity-minded framework. In 2016, she was awarded the CSUDH Lyle E. Gibson Distinguished Teacher Award. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Chávez earned her B.A.

Scholarship

Ed.gov Homeroom

JANUARY 3, 2025

Ed, Manager of Resident Development, Innovation, and Coaching; Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) Equity. By: Jailyn Jenkins, M. Liberation. From a leadership perspective, how can we cultivate belonging? And what can be done when its fractured or missing altogether? In education, these topics spark ongoing conversations.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2025

Shaun Harper In a powerful defense of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education, Dr. Shaun Harper, Provost Professor of Education, Public Policy, and Business at the University of Southern California, presented evidence-based testimony before the U.S.

Curriculum

Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Proffitt from Emory & Henry College emphasized the importance of teaching students to ask questions early. Empower students to seek support today Promoting help-seeking behaviors on your campus is more than an administrative initiativeits a commitment to equity and academic success.

Mental health

Active Minds

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The people you meet along the way will teach you more than anything you learned in college. By advocating for mental health, we can help bridge these gaps, empower individuals, and work toward equity in healthcare for all communities. Active Minds is treasure trove full of unique people, and experiences. At least they did for me.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

These demands reportedly extend far beyond addressing antisemitism, including new speech restrictions, elimination of all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and mandatory cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security.

Administration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Fostering a deeper understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at U.S. Diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs aim to right the past and present wrongs of America. colleges and universities, was the focus of a webinar sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. They're not anti-American.

Higher education

Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 11, 2025

But returning to speak about open educational practices for good with scholars and librarians who are leading work in open education for equity and antiracism that was a future I could never have dreamt. I look forward also to keynotes at OTESSA25 and the Teaching and Learning for Societal Wellbeing conference (University of Galway).

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Fenwick called for the removal of “past deficit perspectives and research about Black and other students of color," to create "teaching and learning environments that affirm the intellectual capacities and cultural heritages of all students.” BOLD Leadership Network, headquartered in Greenville, S.C.,

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2025

Also, 65% of AAPIs polled oppose federal funding cuts to colleges with diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Among the findings: 75% of AAPI adults favor the teaching of the history of AAPI communities in this country. The latest survey shows that 87% of AAPI adults worry about increases in student loan debt.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

This double standard manifests in insidious ways: Overrepresentation in Service Work: We are disproportionately asked to lead diversity initiatives, serve on equity committees, and mentor students from historically excluded or systemically marginalized backgrounds.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

With over 25 years of administrative, research, and teaching experience in various higher education settings, Vega transitioned to academia as a faculty member and has significantly contributed to the Master of Arts in Higher Education program at Montclair State University since 2017. Vega earned her Ed.D.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

He worked as a Boeing research engineer in the 1960s, at times participating in civil rights and equity efforts. An engineer by training, Suzuki, along with his parents, had been confined to an incarceration camp for Japanese Americans during World War Two. Organizers say 12 people had registered by late April out of a maximum 35 slots.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

It instructed the University to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under whatever name, and to cease any admissions or hiring practices that consider race, gender, or even proxies for race. If we cannot name, we cannot teach. The administrations memo targets racial equity work explicitly.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Dear Colleague letter follows President Trumps executive order banning any considerations of diversity, equity and inclusion from federal agencies and contractors; a federal judge has issued an injunction against that order. Citing a favorite theme of the movement to debilitate and even destroy teaching the truth of U.S.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Her teaching emphasizes college students and their development, issues of equity and access, leadership and policy and practice in higher education. Mitchell is the inaugural Associate Provost for Community Engagement and a Professor in the College of Education at the University of Maryland.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2025

Universities that once hashtagged #Equity during the height of Black Lives Matter are dismantling the very safeguards they pledged to build. Each ride was more than dollars and cents; it was a manifesto: women’s work—and the invisible labor and mothering sewn into its seams—belongs at the heart of education. Center women’s labor here.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Board of Education case, raised specific concerns about McMahon's stance on teaching American history. According to the letter, she opposes what she terms "political indoctrination" in classrooms and rejects teaching about systemic racism's impact on American society. The LDF, which won the landmark Brown v.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

I have met so many amazing people who continue to teach me new things and push me to be a better person, says Sarrol, who now serves as a peer mentor in the program. As a visiting professor, Rahman also teaches a similar course called Critical Muslim Studies.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Several states have already dismantled diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming, and other states anticipate something similar coming their way. Broadly speaking, the areas where faculty typically have had autonomy and academic freedomcurriculum, deciding who teaches what subjects and researchcould be impacted by anti DEI agendas.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, joined by 85 prominent organizations including the NAACP, National Urban League, and Human Rights Campaign, warned that McMahon's confirmation would pose significant risks to educational equity and civil rights protections for students.

Education