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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Juan Gilbert, a 2002 Emerging Scholar, a decade later received the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. A 2007 Emerging Scholar, Dr. Peniel Joseph (“Interpreting African-American Life and History,” Jan. White House Honoree, Jan. Remembering and rendering lives.

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Claudine Gay to become first Black president of Harvard

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Though Gay has not previously held a presidency, she has a long history with Harvard. Bacow, who announced in June that he would step down next year.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college. We did some great work.”

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

Writing that moves in this way “flows” (Irish & Weiss, 2008). A history starts with the historical context necessary to understand the argument. A history of an idea. Engineering communication: From principles to practice. Logically sequenced details move from what the reader knows to what the reader does not know.

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

Writing that moves in this way “flows” (Irish & Weiss, 2008). A history starts with the historical context necessary to understand the argument. A history of an idea. Engineering communication: From principles to practice. Logically sequenced details move from what the reader knows to what the reader does not know.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. Formed in 2005 from a series of mergers including the Surrey Institute of Art and Design which already had TDAP, the University for the Creative Arts had gained university title in 2008.

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