Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Jacinta Saffold In a world where academia often overlooks the nuanced narratives of Black women, the Black Womens Studies Association (BWSA) is spearheading a movement that seeks to center the lived experiences of Black women across disciplines, identities, and generations. That commitment to community-building is central to their ethos.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%. Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. Coupled with enhanced academic flexibility it has led to improved graduation rates. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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This has led to a situation in universities where corporate leadership dominates and academic leadership has been diminished (Gerber, 2010; Magney, 2006 ; Yeatman & Costea (eds), 2018 ). The intention of this work is not to demonise any culture group nor argue for a return to a Golden Age where academics tended to dominate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Although she has reached such heights in her scholarship, she began her college journey with little information or direction about academia, in part because she lacked counseling in high school. “I As an example, she authored a 2018 article on the experiences of a gifted Black male with a traumatic brain injury.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

And it wasn’t that we were fighting society or academia. In 2018, according to 2021 version of that bi-annual analysis, 16.8% How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? “We started something that I needed so much,” the 85-year-old said. SACNAS filled that hole.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Since 2018, Case Western Reserve University has operated the Líderes Avanzando program for first-year Latinx students, which utilizes an adapted curriculum to help bridge societal gaps affecting this high-potential population. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York.

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