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JANUARY 15, 2025

The timing of Barabino's departure coincides with significant turnover in higher education leadership nationwide, as many college presidents have resigned in 2024 amid various challenges, including financial pressures and responses to global events.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Last Thursdays event, titled Reflecting on the Significance of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies and the Journey Toward Reconciliation, included a discussion among leaders from Xaviers IBCS, the Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation, and Georgetown University. a leading scholar and former head of IBCS.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Yet each of us has the power to shape events in real time. As I think about the coming months, I’m reminded that history is not a series of isolated events. Ensuring these institutions continue to receive much-needed funding is critical. But the outcome isn’t guaranteed. This election offers an important opportunity to do just that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

Hosting trans awareness events, safe zone training, Take Back the Night, and Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, for instance, are effective strategies for creating inclusive campus climates. Feeling unsafe and unwanted off campus heightens students need for belonging on campus.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Organizers say they will move the event online if heavy snow forces a change of plans. A Department of Education spokesperson pointed to a DOGE social media post defending the contract terminations as cost-saving measures. Wednesday's protest is scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Department of Education's C Street entrance, weather permitting.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Student leaders at the University of Florida (UF) are preparing for the Fifth Annual Spread Cream Cheese, Not Hate ® Bagel Day Program in an effort to combat record levels of antisemitism on college campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

Recent events have highlighted the particular vulnerabilities faced by women in these positions. I think things through, I get information, I prepare myself for all outcomes. Pushing for gender parity However, the challenge of achieving gender parity in higher education leadership extends beyond initial appointments.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

To be able to examine the context of the academy after we have been through some of these world events that we have had recently, I am intrigued to see what people find out,” says Eanes, a widely published scholar in the field of social work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The five-day event at the Signia by Hilton Hotel will feature over 100 sessions focusing on institutional excellence, student success, research, economic mobility, and systems change. Lomax college and university (HBCU) and Predominantly Black Institution (PBI) nationwide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Whether mentoring a young scholar or speaking at a community event, Dr. Moore connects with people in ways that are deeply inspiring and transformative. He is the kind of leader who sees potential in everyone, and he works tirelessly to help others realize their dreams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

said Gasman, who added that e ach year the program actively recruits new applicants to participate in a cohort model where they take part in workshops and networking events designed to assist MSI faculty in their careers. "The fact that 70% of the 167 fellows have now earned tenure is really heartwarming for our team.”

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Active Minds

APRIL 22, 2025

By tailoring events for both undergraduate and graduate students and collaborating with mental health professionals, UC Riverside ensures widespread access to resources throughout their community. For examples, each quarter we partner with our 2 on campus libraries to host an event called Therapy Fluffies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

Through the research, she was able to demonstrate the utility of citizen science for classifying neutrino events in the IceCube detector. Our long-term goal is to have citizens and artificial intelligence work in tandem to push the boundaries of neutrino astronomy. This resulted in both a publication and a masters thesis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Teach families about family literacy during community events and virtual meetings with guest speakers, along with a series of short videos on specific topics (e.g., Teach children about investment strategies, including pros and cons, and risk taking. 6. Family involvement. It takes a village. budgeting, investing).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Events and activities happen throughout the academic year. UM holds a Native and indigenous kickoff event for first-year students and transfers, which is a two-and-a-half-day immersive experience held before the university’s welcome week.

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MAY 15, 2025

The four-day event, hosted at Claflin's new 80,000-square-foot conference facility, brought together what organizers described as the "best, largest practitioners in the HBCU space" with an ambitious goal of developing a comprehensive blueprint for sustainability and self-agency among HBCUs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

The MLK Day programming schedules for several schools span multiple days full of various events, recognizing the numerous facets and aspects of the Civil Rights Movement. Penn State , for instance, has events lined up for a number of its campuses. 12 event will be free to the public and recorded for public viewing online as well.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

American Association of University Professors chapters plan to join Higher Education Labor United, the American Federation of Teachers, and other higher education unions and student organizations in the event is deemed a coordinated nationwide counter-offensive against a sustained assault on American higher education as a public good.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2025

Acrobatics and tumbling is a fast-paced, team-based discipline in which athletes perform a series of synchronized skills in events such as acrobatics, pyramid, toss, tumbling and team routines. Meets feature six events and typically span 90 to 120 minutes, with skills scored on difficulty and execution.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Whether organizing events to normalize conversations about mental health, collaborating with local leaders, or listening to my peers who felt unseen, my work with Active Minds gave me purpose. Advocacy became more than a hobby; it became intertwined with my identity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Evangeline Mitchell Now in its 19th year, the event is designed to help increase the number of African American law school applications, students and graduates nationwide. The event was founded by attorney Evangeline Mitchell. Aspiring Black lawyers can register for the free event here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will host a series of events as part of its Third Annual Black History Month Festival this year. Throughout February, events will take place both in-person in Washington D.C. 22 will feature a virtual marquee event with a discussion with Dr. Lonnie G.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

Sundays events culminated with a Sneaker Ball in which contestants not only had to show off their sneaker game but also their dance moves in a classic Soul Train line. Just like you compose a jazz piece or you compose an R&B piece, Im one of those people who composes mathematics, Gates said.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

24 event involving far-right activists. 24 event involved a student group hosting two far-right figures — one connected to extremist group Proud Boys, — for a “comedy” event. 24 event involved a student group hosting two far-right figures — one connected to extremist group Proud Boys, — for a “comedy” event.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

The event offered pro-bono legal consultations and support from community organizations providing social services, health care, financial services, and employment. On an unseasonably warm November weekend, people gathered on campus for a record clearing and expungement clinic organized by the Community College of Philadelphia Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

The month of February includes virtual and in-person events such as the Feb. 8, and an event with the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor National Heritage Area on Feb. The luncheon program also includes an unveiling of the 2024 Black Heritage Stamp featuring civil rights legend and noted American jurist, Constance Baker Motley.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

Chamber of Commerce meetings, Rotary Club events, neighborhood block parties, cultural festivals, and church fish fry fundraisersthe CEO not only needs to show up but be actively engaged as well. The CEO should be the most visible and persuasive ambassador for the institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The planned events will include a reception, parade, and a mural installation, all reflecting on the life and experiences of Black students and alumni of Grinnell. The planned events will include a reception, parade, and a mural installation, all reflecting on the life and experiences of Black students and alumni of Grinnell.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2023

The University of Iowa’s (UI) Center for Advancement will be hosting a day-long event to teach grandparents and grandchildren various topics, The Gazette reported. The event is limited to groups of three – it allows for combinations of two grandparents and a grandchild or one grandparent and two grandkids.

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Student Minds

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When I first moved into my studio, I barely left, and didn’t attend any events during Fresher’s, save for one thing that I got dragged to by someone who had also come to my university. Remember the person I met at a random freshers event, who happened to be on the same course as me? That guy would always say “hi!”

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JANUARY 24, 2024

The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University community will gather at the North Carolina A&T Alumni-Foundation Event Center to celebrate the legacy of four A&T freshmen who were keystones in the civil rights movement in 1960 during their sit-in at the downtown Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

Through the elders firsthand accounts of history, culture or societal events, students gain insights unavailable from textbooks and PowerPoints. For college students, intergenerational learning is more than interacting with older adults. It provides valuable perspectives to challenge assumptions and deepen understanding of the world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Every time one of these events happens, it feels like we’re losing ground, that this is getting away from us,” said Williamson. We are working to come up with some sort of understanding that will help provide guidance for ACHA when they have to deal with heart and mind events surrounding a shooting.”

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Community environment emphasis friendships and supporting each other Cooperative learning Group work and projects Group and team-based competitions Peer teaching Learning circles Movement tactile and kinesthetic Active learning activities 1 -- hands-on, role plays, simulations, games, field trips, shadowing Decrease lecture time to make room (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

In the early 2000s, Bennett worked at the center as a graduate student event coordinator under the second director, the late Mary Karen Powers. Maxey-Rezmer worked alongside Bennett and the Women’s Center to plan an International Women’s Day event honoring Louisville’s diversity in racial, cultural, sexual, gender, and physical backgrounds.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Dr. Ken Atwater “Over the years, BBCB has been a national event for young men of color to come together and discuss the unique issues they face in this country and in their community,” said Hillsborough President Dr. Ken Atwater. For more information and to register for the event, visit bbcbsummit.org.

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APRIL 21, 2025

Despite his removal from day-to-day operations, Generals will continue to receive compensation through June but will not oversee any additional events, including the upcoming commencement ceremony in May. The board has indicated plans to appoint an interim president shortly, followed by "an extensive search for a permanent president."

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