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Report Details How Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act Could Better Serve Students of Color and Low-Income Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new report released by The Education Trust titled, “Improving Titles III & V of the Higher Education Act to Better Serve Students of Color and Students from Low-Income Backgrounds” examines how Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) receive funds related to Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act (HEA).

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Lumina Releases New Long-Term Goal and Strategic Plan for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jamie Merisotis The Lumina Foundation announced a new goal to increase the number of Americans with education and training to 75%. Our view is weve got to do more to transform higher education, workforce systems in order to meet human talent needs.

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Rolita Flores Ezeonu

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Prior to that, she was Dean of Instruction for Transfer and Pre-College Education at Highline, from July 2008 to March 2017. During her time there, she led full-time and adjunct faculty recruitment, development, retention and evaluation, curriculum and instruction.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It took him awhile to connect the dots from his passion to higher education. Because of the dean leads, the vice provost, the team members working with me, we were able to do great things with faculty and faculty fellows. It’s not easy to do inclusive excellence work in higher education. Move it forward—disrupt it.

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How My Classroom Became a Laboratory for Countering Truth Decay

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The year: 2008. During our post-mortem, we realized that the political rhetoric surrounding the 2008 presidential race had hijacked our discussion. Our focus on truth-digging also inspired me to examine the role Obama’s Muslim-sounding middle name played in the 2008 election. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South.

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EVELYN BILIAS LOLIS

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Evelyn Bilias Lolis Evelyn Bilias Lolis has been named dean of the School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) at Fairfield University. Bilias Lolis joined the Department of Psychological & Educational Consultation at Fairfield University in 2010, earning tenure in 2018; she most recently served as SEHDs interim dean.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.