Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University of Dayton (UDayton) will launch a fellowship program to provide paid internships, mentoring, and professional development to underrepresented students from the Dayton region. These two initiatives will be housed in the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community. The fellows program will begin Fall 2023.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Bazan — whose term begins July 1, soon after the official transition to the new name of Union Adventist University — brings a long legacy of supporting and mentoring students, university leaders, and local church constituents. She lives and breathes the mission and values of the Adventist church and this university.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

“I can easily see Dom Turner being a college president one day,” said Dr. Frimpomaa Ampaw, chair of the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy in the School of Education and Urban Studies at Morgan State University. “I I don’t even know if he sees it for himself, but I see it for him.” I was raised in the A.M.E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tenured: No (tenure track) Age: 32 Education: B.A., criminology, law & society, University of California, Irvine; M.S., counseling, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ph.D., Dr. Cristobal Salinas Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are launching a $17-million diversity, equity, inclusion, (DEI) and belonging program for the biomedical research community. Additionally, more than four dozen faculty will be V-FIRST mentors. American Indian, and 0.1% Pacific Islander.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

In the search for its ninth permanent president, Sacramento State University didn’t have to look far. Wood is currently San Diego State University’s (SDSU) vice president for student affairs and campus diversity and chief diversity officer. Luke Wood, incoming president of Sacramento State University “I'm African American.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They shared a common spirit in their separate spheres: to advance people of color through mentoring and teaching. Wherever we went, Orlando knew how to engage people’s hearts through his own scholarship and research, from my shy niece to the President of a powerful university. Mentoring means impact.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

School: Indiana University Major: Finance and Business Analytics Year: Sophomore Natasha Kim plays midfielder for women’s soccer at Indiana University, where she majors in finance and business analytics. She is a member of the Hutton Honors College, is the recipient of the Dean's Scholarship, and is recognized as a Founders Scholar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Hass, author of A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education , is described as a philosopher, teacher, and mentor. Marjorie Hass steers the helm as president of the Council of Independent Colleges. She is also a leader. She served as president of Rhodes College and Austin College and was provost at Muhlenberg College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Like so many other scholarly associations founded in the United States, African Americans and other minorities remained invisible within the leadership ranks for years. At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

School: University of Missouri Year: Graduate Student Major: Hospitality Management As the NFL Draft approached this spring, football pundits noted not only Darius Robinson’s athletic prowess, but his versatility and ability to play multiple positions. Robinson himself said he’s open to doing whatever a team needs from him.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

President Sacks talked to us about the view on the ground versus the big picture, her personal leadership journey, some of her proudest accomplishments, strategies for decision making, and the power of both information and knowledge. Department of Education. They don't even like horses. That was formative.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

The annual forum brought together more than 650 students, faculty, athletic directors, and administrators for a three-day conversation focused on enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives at colleges and universities. The forum also focused on the intersectional identities of student-athletes.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

He spoke with us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast about his leadership style, expectations he's faced, lessons he's learning from the experience, and how future administrators might best prepare for this kind of leadership. And that's how I started to solidify my position to keep us moving forward."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

13 at the Women’s Leadership Dinner during ACE’s annual meeting in Washington, DC. I owe gratitude to my mentors and supporters, especially those who saw potential in me that I never imagined. Coley will be given the award Apr. Dr. Soraya M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

With the goal of infusing scholarship into practice, thousands of student affairs practitioners from colleges and universities across the nation gathered in Boston to strategize about the future of the profession. Strayhorn, a professor at Illinois State University and included student affairs leaders—all board members of the Dr. Melvin C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

. — remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2023

She joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about the mindset of accepting new leadership challenges, the responsibilities of institutional leaders as employers, required skills for effective leadership, and navigating the small world of higher ed. My parents had high school degrees but didn't talk much about college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

He is also director of the Mentoring@Purdue program and director of Cornell University’s Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellowship Program. Previously, he was coordinator of the Agriculture Teacher Education Program in Iowa State University’s College of Agriculture. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

The Center for Politics and Race in America at Rutgers University-Newark has been named in honor of the first Black woman in New Jersey to hold statewide office, Lt. Oliver Leadership Scholarship as part of the center's Public Service Leadership Program at Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences–Newark.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014). Having an advocate or mentor is critical We found that the presence of a mentor in the life of the trustee was critical to the participants’ successful selection or election as trustee. Dr. Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Universities risk undermining diversity by signaling unwelcoming conditions for the same populations who, for centuries, were formally excluded. The University of California learned after Proposition 209 how this can lead to group-level declines in application rates from Black and Latinx students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2023

McBride, who recently stepped down from the presidency to accept a position as an endowed professor and senior advisor at Washington University in St. Across the years, Shalala has held numerous leadership positions, most recently as president of the University of Miami.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López "I've been in the classroom on and off, but I've been supporting youth and students in different ways throughout that time,” says López, who is starting a new chapter of her career as a tenured associate professor in educational leadership and policy in the University of Arizona College of Education. students in STEM.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2023

The dean of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music was the first woman in the role and first African American dean at the university in general. Montgomery, who joined Northwestern in 2003, said she was also the first African American dean at the University of Kansas, serving in its School of Fine Arts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

Succession planning is paramount in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as it can play a critical role in preserving these institutions' legacy, values, and unique contributions. Succession planning plays a vital role in the long-term success and stability of the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Starting out in his first full-time job in the industry at his alma mater, Georgia State University (GSU), White worked his way up from travel coordinator to associate athletics director for business operations and finance and chief financial officer for the athletics department. White holds a B.A. in psychology from UNC Chapel Hill, an M.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Glenn Youngkin has announced an initiative to address learning loss through a tutoring partnership between the Urban League of Hampton Roads and Greater Richmond and four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The program will pay HBCU students to be tutors and mentors to high school and middle school students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Before attending the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill for undergrad, the Fayetteville, North Carolina, native had a budding interest in Hip Hop and spoken word but needed an outlet for it. in educational leadership and cultural foundations from UNC Greensboro.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

Barnes previously served the GCAC on a part-time basis while working as athletic director of Dillard University. Long known for mentoring young women of color who aspire to careers in college sports, Barnes also consults with collegiate athletics programs on strategic planning, leadership training, and team building.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2023

We weren’t graduating,” said the master’s candidate in higher education student affairs at the Morgan State University School of Education & Urban Studies. I didn’t really have a lot of mentors growing up who were in higher ed or had any idea what research was. I saw that people that looked like me did not matriculate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

André Childs       Institution:   University of Central Florida Graduate Program:   Material Science and Engineering Education: Ph.D. candidate in material science and engineering at the University of Central Florida. So, you get to do research at the same time as mentoring. Fast forward to 2023. Fast forward to 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex Red Corn Title: Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Kansas State University College of Education. education, University of Kansas; M.S., education, University of Kansas; and Ed.D., Age: 39 Education: B.S., Mercer, Kansas State Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Be patient, but persistent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) has received a $2.5 The initiative seeks to create new and updated international business course offerings; scholarships for study abroad and other experiences; enhanced advising services; and broader outreach to alumni who can be speakers, mentors, and potential employers.

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COE

JUNE 30, 2023

One hundred and thirty-nine high school TRIO students from across the country participated in the National Student Leadership Congress (NSLC) this year in Washington, D.C., the students traveled in counselor-led groups and settled at the American University campus, which served as the host institution for the experience.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JULY 14, 2022

Leadership Advice to Start the New Academic Year. Higher Ed Leadership. For many of us in academic leadership, planning ahead is a constant feature of the job. Michael Rao, President, Virginia Commonwealth University). I’ve always said the measure of a great university is the quality of the faculty. "In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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