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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He joined the faculty of Connecticut College in 2003, and was an associate professor of history, director of the African American studies program as well as interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion, chair of the history department and director of the Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After three decades in academia, Dr. Janet R. At that event, colleagues from early in her career in academia spoke about how when they were young faculty at University of Arizona, Jakobsen built a sense of queer community. Jakobsen is the Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College in New York.

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Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed podcast 254 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. R. Todd Benson

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Two results cited in the discussion include efforts to address salary equity and provide more competitive packages for doctoral students. Share faculty accomplishments in ways that resonate with stakeholders outside academia. At the University of Texas at Arlington, the faculty senate initiated participation in the survey process.

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Pivotal Moments in Higher Education DEI

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(Photo courtesy the Birch Bayh Photo Collection of the Indiana University Libraries) In 1972, the passage of Title IX legislation marked a pivotal moment in the pursuit of gender equity within academia. Supreme Court case in 2003, had a profound impact on DEI efforts in higher education. Bollinger case.