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Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says. Those opportunities led Howard-Baptiste to Miami University in Ohio where she earned degrees in exercise science, health promotion, and a Ph.D.

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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.

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Nearly half are Pell Grant-eligible, and 68% experience at least one basic needs insecurity, with 24% self-identifying as homeless. The sixty-four-year-old law remains literally unchanged while everything around it has transformedfrom technology to teaching methods to the students themselves. "If

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million grant through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Noyce grant is a catalyst for transformative change that will allow Lenoir-Rhyne to invest in preparing the highest caliber STEM teachers who will shape the future of innovation through their students.”

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MARCH 12, 2023

When Congress voted in December 2020 to restore Pell Grants for incarcerated Americans after a 26-year ban, advocates hailed the move as an opportunity for 760,000 people in prison to achieve a better life through education. Faculty are also restricted in the number of materials that they can bring into prisons, as well as what type.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in support of Florida faculty who are challenging the state’s “Stop W.O.K.E.” A group of faculty and a student – assisted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) – had sued against the law, a move that a federal district court granted a preliminary injunction in in November.

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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.

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APRIL 10, 2024

Katina Lang-Lindsey The center has announced its plans to host this ninth annual early-career faculty training program June 12-14. The three-day professional development opportunity was created specifically to address the unique needs of early career faculty members at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).

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Meridith Randall GWC Academic Senate President Damien Jordan, an associate professor of counseling, says Randall built trust among the faculty while serving as vice president of instruction, which readily translated when she became interim president. Grade-point averages were also higher for students who received the grants — 2.97

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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. USC Rossier presented her its 2024 Excellence in Teaching Award. “I

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One Black British academic felt “discriminated against for promotion” while white colleagues with fewer high-profile publications or research grants were promoted instead. where harassment reporting mechanisms often fail to protect Black faculty. Neither does teaching. This parallels findings in the U.S.,

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JULY 23, 2024

I look forward to working this year with the faculty, staff, students, and alumni as we lead the nation in our teaching, research, and land-grant and clinical activities,” said Fuchs, who starts in the role Aug. He returned this year to teach electrical engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If you’re going to a public flagship, you’re probably getting a tuition waiver and some kind of stipend because you’re teaching or doing research,” said Velez. Many of the projects involve faculty at the doctoral-granting institutions…to work with faculty at, let’s say, an HBCU on curriculum development,” said Espinosa.

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MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. Curriculum Alongside wraparound services and culturally competent faculty and staff, what’s taught in the classroom is also vital to bolstering student success, Chang says. Census Bureau’s 2020 Census.

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The award applauds promising and innovative proposals to improve student success and degree completion at master’s and doctoral levels while promoting inclusiveness, with the winner receiving a two-year, $20,000 matching grant. Our students will achieve proficiency as instructors and have demonstrated those skills in the classroom.”.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The plans drew protests from students and condemnation from faculty and the American Federation of Teachers, who say that flagship, land-grant universities have a responsibility to offer a broad range of courses of study. Administrators are now proposing that WVU retain five of its 24 language faculty to teach Spanish and Chinese.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He has nurtured the faculty, programming, and pedagogy of his institution and has watched it grow from a two-year technical school into a research university. We were chartered by the Navajo national government, and Navajo law says all schools have to teach native language and culture,” says Guy. The creation of this Ph.D.

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MAY 16, 2023

Ron DeSantis The legislation largely prohibits Florida public universities and colleges from spending money on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and restricts how educators can discuss discrimination in required courses – banning teaching of “identity politics” is one example.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Clark, Binghamton University as well as so many others who have supported and helped me along the way Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Most things can wait. in political science from Binghamton University and secured a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Rhode Island (URI) in 2018. Dr. Jeannette E.

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The grant – from Lilly Endowment Inc. With our national reputation for outstanding classroom teaching and value, we’re ideally positioned to provide access to a rewarding college education for students from all backgrounds and interests.”

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Clark, Binghamton University as well as so many others who have supported and helped me along the way Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Most things can wait. in political science from Binghamton University and secured a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Rhode Island (URI) in 2018. Dr. Jeannette E.

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APRIL 2, 2023

However, the amount of Title V funding—federal dollars granted to expand opportunities for Hispanic students—has not kept pace, resulting in increased competition for the money. One of the main obstacles that schools have in applying for Title V grants is decentralized structures for doing so, the briefing found. Dr. Deborah A.

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Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. There is power in being a role model, he says, and that’s why he wants to make sure undergrads and graduates can see themselves represented in Lehman faculty, staff, and administration.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. López — the daughter of immigrants — says the land-grant university was a promising choice, given its scholars and proximity to the U.S.-Mexico For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. Through and through.

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Just Faculty Fellowship. The program, which will eventually expand to include six scholars, will give fellows financial support for their research and teaching, as well as mentoring, networking, and community over a six-year term. According to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, only 10.1%

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

During her 17-year tenure at Ohio State, she also served as associate dean of the graduate school, associate provost and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. During this time, she co-directed a new nationwide program, “Preparing Future Faculty,” an initiative to stimulate the reform of doctoral education for the professoriate.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Yale also became more financially accessible: the number of incoming freshmen who qualify for Pell grants doubled from his first year to 22% at present. The percentage of freshmen who are Black, Latinx, or Native nearly doubled between 2013 and 2021, and the share of first-generation students climbed nine points to 21 percent.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

This commitment to pioneering scholarship has been complemented by her unwavering dedication to teaching and mentoring the next generation of scholars, which is an integral part of her academic mission.” affect the day-to-day lives of students.”

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A $1 million grant from the Delta Regional Authority, a federal-state partnership improving the quality of life in the Mississippi Delta, has allowed LSUE to go back to its agrarian roots. What sets this program apart is the focus on and investment in faculty.” We are surrounded by rice fields and crawfish ponds,” said Sorenson.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Whether it’s a dissertation, a program, a grant, whatever it is. When he is not teaching, Currie is at National AIDS Education and Services for Minorities (NAESM), working with queer minorities as a behavioral health clinician. “We Outside of CAU, Currie is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Social Work at Simmons University.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.

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MARCH 28, 2024

We need to double what we offer for Pell Grants. Community colleges will be provided with funds to support and finance teaching and learning innovation at our campuses. Community colleges will have funding to support endowed chair positions for faculty. What we currently offer students is simply not enough for our students.

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MARCH 19, 2024

If you're going to go take geometry in the fall, we'll go ahead and teach you geometry in the summer, so that when you get to the fall course, this is not your first time seeing the material. Roberson, who teaches statistics in Pepperdine’s political science program, served as one of the initiative’s teachers, instructing students on algebra.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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Colleges and universities nationwide have established Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices for years to increase faculty diversity and help students from various backgrounds succeed at the post-secondary level and beyond. In the past few months, DEI advocates at the university level have witnessed their livelihoods at risk.

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APRIL 16, 2024

This eventually led to applying for and receiving a grant to develop programming for LGBTQ+ students at Guttman. Guttman recently institutionalized its Lavender Graduation, a pre-graduation ceremony for LGBTQ students which the president, provost, and members of the faculty attend. This academic year, 575 students are being supported.

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JUNE 28, 2023

As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. Several Otero faculty members have summer research projects. It was eye-opening for students and faculty.

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