Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

To accompany the release of its 2024 Emerging Scholars magazine edition, Diverse hosted its first-ever panel for the 15 outstanding scholars it recognized this year. The work that we're doing is what allows other students and people who come after us to be here." The panel was moderated by Dr. Jamal Watson.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

I thought about how quiet I’d been as an undergrad, and I felt there was something I needed to do and should do at MIT to get more African American and minority students in and to make it more hospitable.” Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union. Within a year, the number of students of color increased exponentially.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On its cover page, the annual education issue of the New York Times magazine uses the sardonic headline, Not U, to capture the current attitude of parts of the country toward higher education. The headline is then followed by this intriguing subtitle: Why do more and more Americans think college isn’t even worth it?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As colleges and universities nationwide welcome a new cohort of students, the beginning of a new academic year generates a sense of anticipation. This new legislation presents a formidable barrier that hampers the ability of Black people (students, faculty, and staff) to flourish and thrive in their academic pursuits.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I would describe faculty as on a spectrum between sanguine and despairing,” says Dr. Joseph F. Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. “As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The pandemic opened the door for many faculty to experience teaching online that hadn’t before,” said Dr. Elizabeth M. Making the shift and continued development Luoma was on Yale University’s faculty initiatives team when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. In my other courses I was doing the same thing,” Stukes said. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He took me there to meet his long-time colleague and co-founder of the magazine, Dr. Bill Cox. He mentored generations of students and colleagues, from being one of only three Black faculty members and the first Black tenure-track professor at Indiana University to his long-time service at Howard University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

is not just about learning, reading, or writing Navajo, it’s really preparing [its students] with tools so that they will be efficient in designing their research studies, conducting research, and finding solutions to some of the challenges that we have,” says Guy. Those same students are talented, creative. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Even though the landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education may have changed over the last three years, institutional and academic search firms say their commitment to identifying leaders, staff, and faculty who embody the essence of DEI work remains strong. and even around the world to fill key vacancies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Galizio A research brief on community college baccalaureate (CCB) students from the New America Foundation found, “Many CCB students are deeply rooted in their communities, often raising children and/or caring for aging parents, and they want to stay local” (Meza & Love, 2022). Lawrence A. Lawrence A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Carey is president of ACT-UAW Local 7902, a union representing more than 4,000 part-time and adjuncts, student educators, and healthcare workers at New York University and The New School. The new contract allows our community to move forward fully focused on continuing to provide our students with an exceptional academic experience."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The school is now eligible for Title V HSI funds that can support student recruitment, education, sense of belonging, and completion. Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education. We are around 83% students of color. The 2021 Latinx population in the U.S. totaled 62.5

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MARCH 22, 2023

Some faculty in Texas may not be expected to demonstrate proficiency in knowledge transfer. The article seems to make clear that incorporating a DEI statement into the application folio of faculty is not considered necessary. Some faculty speak to this in their philosophy statements. Still, standards must first exist.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“One of the goals I’m trying to achieve is to portray our lives outside of the classroom to humanize our experience and to show that many of our contributions actually happen outside of the classroom in the research that we do, in the work that we publish and the work that we do with students,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person. there were protests on campus. Dr. David A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, TCU students often transfer to PWIs to continue their education or engage in bilateral mobility between TCUs and PWIs while working toward degree requirements. The movement and transition between these institutional types can be jarring to Indigenous students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As I moved from a faculty role into more administrative work, the words stayed with me though they no longer informed text selection, course design, or other personal pedagogical practices. Leaders and scholars of color, along with their allies, have sought access to the academy for themselves and for students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Innovative programming continues to grow, and the student body is more diverse than ever. Student groups at Morgan State include organizations for African students, Caribbean students, Latinx students, and international students. We monitor and follow up with all of those faculty alerts.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. There may be a loss in critical innovations that women could be making in the present, which damages prospects for developing more female STEM students in the future — as the saying goes, “you can’t be what you can’t see.”

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AUGUST 16, 2023

That was something that I realized was really important to me, to have an army of undergraduate students in the lab. She said it allows students to better understand the significance of what they’re learning. And I love being able to bring both aspects to the classroom and allow the students to be able to actually do research.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. I'm a first-generation student. And I would go to six different middle and high schools and work with students, basically to guide them to get to college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Ohio State University College of Nursing uses its Summer Institute for Future Nurses as a recruiting tool for high school students. Those barriers lead to a lack of access to quality education for our minority students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.” Staffing levels were a significant issue in the negotiations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 16, 2023

Glenn Gilyot’s research as a doctoral student in organic chemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the recognition he has received, while significant, pale in comparison to the satisfaction he has derived from his work with a STEM program for elementary and middle-school students. The fortunate thing is I get to do both.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But much of the book highlights how the American higher education system has become the envy of the world — sending thousands of students each year flocking to the United States to commence study. An older, mature, and attractive non-student female hanging around the team led Zeppo Marx into dangerous waters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Among the highlights of his presidency is serving a diverse student population. million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. Knowing all the challenges that our students are going through — much more since COVID — it’s so important.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

These are a few of the ways many college students communicate with their instructors over email, much to the dismay and frustration of many educators. "I If you have taught a college class for 15 minutes, you got an angry email from a student." Effective and professional communication is expected from students. Dr. Marvin T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

The course of Carlos Galan’s academic career was changed by a single question from a high school student. A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I I cannot believe everyone is white,” the student said. students. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2023

The work that we do in the world is so important,” said Kinloch, describing her hopes for advancing equitable policies and practices that benefit students, faculty, staff, communities of people in schools, school districts, and universities around the world. “To Valerie Kinloch’s end goal as an education scholar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In these early days, I am acclimating myself to the institution, evaluating the campus climate, establishing relationships with faculty, staff and students, and becoming more connected with the local community,” says Jaamal. The ambassadors will also help students recognize and respect cultural differences and similarities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

Before Alabama A&M, she was a science education research assistant doing research on improving science education for urban students, particularly those of African descent, according to her faculty bio. in biology from Mount Allison University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2023

Another achievement is that she managed to hire two-thirds of the music school’s faculty during her time as dean, said Montgomery, who also expresses regret in not being able to recruit more faculty members of color, primarily Latinx and African American faculty. When I was a grade school student, music classes (i.e.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015).

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