Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Student affairs leader Quamina Carter did not take a traditional route to higher education. in higher education and student affairs from CGU. in higher education and student affairs from CGU. In her work, Carter says she holds in high regard two core principles: wellness and inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. Our higher education institutions must reflect this reality and prepare students for the world they will inherit.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Todays heightened scrutiny of social and racial justice initiatives adds to the challenges Black students face in navigating both online spaces and higher education. For example, institutions could offer workshops that teach students how to actively engage with social media while protecting their mental well-being.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS—Amid the ongoing attacks to higher education, experts who study the field are gathering this week to debate and respond to the growing political challenges that have impacted colleges and universities. I am very big on resiliency research, HBCUs and mental health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

While higher education is a path to opportunity — many underrepresented, minoritized students face systemic barriers that make their graduate-level academic experience feel like an uphill challenge. As educators, our role in supporting marginalized students and helping them navigate the barriers created by the “system” is crucial.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

in educational leadership. 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. Im just so blessed to be able to give to higher education in such a dynamic way, she says.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I consider Dr. Boykin the father of multicultural instruction culturally responsive teaching styles and strategies. I define instructional violence as intentional and unintentional teaching/pedagogical styles and strategies that negatively affect the academic, psychological, emotional, and behavioral needs of students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Illinois State University will be launching an online seminar series to help teach faculty how to create inclusive and equitable classes. The other two will be “The Equitable and Inclusive Syllabus” and “Equitable and Inclusive Classroom Culture.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The Leadership Alliance is a consortium of 41 leading research and teaching colleges, universities, and private industry dedicated to increasing the participation of underrepresented and underserved students in Ph.D. training programs. This call is extended to all to embrace the complexities of today’s academic environment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As such, this global movement has forced us to revisit what and how topics and issues are taught in Pre-K-12 and higher education courses; as such, it has forced us to confront the sources of white supremacy, intolerance, and anti-Blackness and hate based on race and ethnicity. How do we do this?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Nearly twenty years later, Patterson-Stephens returned to her alma mater in 2021 to become CMU’s Vice President for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging after honing her leadership skills at several other colleges and universities across the nation. She is the first Black woman to ever serve as a vice president at the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

The governor has even promoted the idea that teaching about anti-Black racism in U.S. We believe that higher education faculty and administrators play an integral role in combating the faulty assumptions, racist ideas and harmful policies put forth by white nationalists.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They see ChatGPT writing papers, maniacal zealots indoctrinating young minds with woke, left-wing ideology, or, alternatively, right-wing idealogues banning books and prohibiting the honest teaching of history. Higher education is a public good because i t benefits not only individuals , but also society as a whole.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Susana Córdova, Colorado’s Commissioner of Education delivered the opening keynote at AACTE “We’re all working hard to fill the gaps that exist,” said Córdova, adding that the mounting teacher vacancies—particularly in the wake of COVID-19—has been a top priority for school districts across the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

I intentionally mentor others, helping them navigate the challenges of higher education leadership and empowering them to take ownership of their journeys. So, to Black women aspiring to leadership in higher education I say this: there is space for you here, we need your voices, your perspectives, and your leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Jaeger and Colclough began a case study that has blossomed into a full program, run by and for faculty, that’s creating peer communities, meeting regional needs, and moving the needle on student retention, persistence, and graduation rates: The North Carolina Teaching and Learning Hubs. We’re faculty led, driven, and focused.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Chan School of Public Health Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Always strive to see the bigger picturehow your teaching, research, and advocacy can ripple outward to impact lives. She says that she aims to help students recognize how power, equity, and inclusion shape healthcare outcomes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Chaka Cummings has been appointed the inaugural executive director of The Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky. Woodson Center for Interracial Education at Berea College. It will work to help make sure that the contributions of Black Kentuckians are embedded into the teaching of state and national history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

McMickens’s scholarship centers on historically marginalized and underserved populations that suffer from inequities, particularly in higher education. The research is rich and ever-manifesting on college campuses for McMickens, an associate professor of higher education and the director of the M.S.Ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

I love seeing my feed blow up w/ the news that numerous research proposals adopting critical & intersectional approaches to advancing justice in math & STEM higher ed were accepted as presentations during the 2024 @AERA_EdResearch Annual Mtg in Philadelphia. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBA) English professor is alleging that his job is under review for teaching a racial justice unit, CNN reported. Joeckel said he had been teaching a racial justice unit for years without a hitch. Dr. Samuel Joeckel “[They] told me they had concerns that I was indoctrinating students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Should we throw in the towel?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2024

I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. To problem-solving? · An Equity Pedagogy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Dr. Kayon Hall, assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 5, 2025

Along with other higher education leaders who embody intersectionality and hold prominent roles on college and university campuses across the country, we serve as a testament to the power of representation. Together, we challenge monolithic notions of leadership and identity, paving the way for a more inclusive and diverse future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In the wake of a front assault on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is calling on colleges and universities not to give in to the pressure to abandon such initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Owens called diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives “demeaning and racist.” DEI initiatives aim to bring students and employees together to learn from each other’s differences and to co-create inclusive campus environments,” the report notes. DEI initiatives do not create exclusion, they exist to promote inclusion.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). One Black British academic felt “discriminated against for promotion” while white colleagues with fewer high-profile publications or research grants were promoted instead.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) condemned the University of Florida's elimination of its diversity, equity, and inclusion staff. They come at the expense of students, who will suffer without programs and people to support their educational journey."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Scholarships without question assist with financial barriers, but they cannot unilaterally sustain a student's journey through higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Danielle Lopez has been appointed the inaugural director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for Accessibility Services at Hudson County Community College (HCCC). I am very happy to be a part of Hudson County Community College, where diversity, equity, and inclusion is valued and lived,” said Lopez. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

She was teaching us the ideals of Black Pride long before the term was a thing. Afterward, he led economic development efforts for the 1983 World’s Fair where he fought for Black inclusion. “She played the piano and she had a song she would always lead that said, ‘We’ve been right there in line, we are Americans too.’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

She was teaching us the ideals of Black Pride long before the term was a thing. Afterward, he led economic development efforts for the 1983 World’s Fair where he fought for Black inclusion. “She played the piano and she had a song she would always lead that said, ‘We’ve been right there in line, we are Americans too.’

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