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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.” Those New York residents who make it receive full-tuition scholarships or tuition waivers (for individuals from out of state). There is also an effort to increase equity.

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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. When she ended her 15 years as director of BCRW in 2015, the college devoted a day-long colloquium to celebrate her contributions to feminist scholarship and research. In 2003, Crosby suffered a spinal cord injury that she described in her memoir, A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain.

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Pivotal Moments in Higher Education DEI

Insight Into Diversity

(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.