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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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The bill will overhaul Ohio’s public universities and community colleges, with provisions including the banning of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, limiting faculty strikes, and restricting certain foreign partnerships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

These experiences have given me a unique lens through which I approach leadership, prioritizing equity, access, and the holistic well-being of our students. The angry Black woman, welfare queen, and jezebel tropes are ever present in the halls of academia. As leaders, we are constantly evolving, learning, and growing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The 2024 election results have only amplified these tensions, with politicians continuing to wield the word “radical” to justify cuts to essential diversity and equity initiatives. As we move forward from the 2024 election, I sincerely urge academic institutions to honor their legacy as sanctuaries for free inquiry and critical thought.

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The Berkeley Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Some of the best jobs in academia are to be a professor of Cooperative Extension at Berkeley. The Cooperative Extension is one of the greatest inventions of the American educational system, designed to transfer knowledge to and learn from the experience of practitioners in agriculture and industry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

Since 2009, she’s been engaged in research relating to health services and health equity, she said. “My In addition, I identify effective health policy interventions by really looking at different natural experiments and different healthcare behaviors and interventions to address health disparities and equity.” Hung earned her Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We aim to eliminate equity gaps and continue to transform our institution into a Hispanic-graduating institution.” Equity, familia and servingness are woven into the college’s leadership, programs and services to foster success for all students.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Increasingly, this centers around health equity. To further advance advocacy and equity in health care, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Nursing will launch a new program in 2023 to teach nursing students about policymaking. Experts from these universities say major national discussions on health care must include nurses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The panelists expressed gratitude and pride over being recognized for some of the diversity and equity work that they’ve been doing, work that typically does not garner widespread attention. Scholarly research should be made accessible and legible for people not in academia, the scholars agreed. "My

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

More than 1 billion people across the world have disabilities and AI optimizes accessibility, inclusion, and equity, thus ensuring fairer access to educational information of all types (Nacheva 2025, 137). Ai Meets Academia. Acta Educationis Generalis 15 (1): 13345. doi:10.2478/atd-2025-0009. Perry, Abby. Wang, Huanhuan, and James D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Racial and gender inequities still plague the field of educational measurement, from professional rank to salary, across academia, industry, and leadership roles. These organizations provide membership and community for qualitative and quantitative researchers, and WIM focuses on improving gender and racial equity within the field.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). There’s kind of Black academics in particular exiting academia at various stages. where Black people are far less represented in academia than they are in the U.K.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, this is not about President Gay’s specific case; it is about the larger canvas it paints – a chilling tableau where anti-Blackness and misogyny find fertile ground even in the progressive halls of academia. Let it be the spark that ignites a fire of inclusivity and equity, so bright that it banishes the shadows of discrimination.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education , the national publication that focuses exclusively on diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia, has announced a major change in leadership, a few months before the trade publication is set to celebrate its 40 th anniversary. William Cox Jr. Diverse Vice President William Cox, Jr.,

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Two prominent efforts to diversify music in academia are the new University of Arkansas’ (UA) Arkansas Center for Black Music and the creation of the George Walker Center for Equity and Inclusion in Music at the University of Rochester’s (UR) Eastman School of Music (Eastman). Walton Foundation.

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University Business

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Diversity, equity and inclusion in tech careers Social mobility is a cornerstone of the American dream, and education is a proven pathway to better economic opportunities. Yet, access to these opportunities is still uneven.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

However, the report reveals a landscape marked by cautious optimism, with stakeholders wary of the ethical and operational risks AI brings, particularly around academic integrity, data privacy, and equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Danelle Stevens-Watkins, acting dean of the UK College of Education The five-year grant will fund a mentorship-based program, the Faculty Accomplished Community that Cultivates Equity and Success in Science (ACCESS), meant to help bolster social support for underrepresented minority faculty.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 7, 2024

Kennedy, JD, criticized the mandatory statements, arguing they were counterproductive to addressing social discrimination in academia and posed a challenge to academic freedom. Not all faculty members are supportive of this change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This paucity is mirrored in academia, where only 19.2% You probably over-prepare for meetings,” says Dr. Rolanda Johnson, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. It's in our professional practice to begin with, to advocate for equity in health care,” says Williams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. With the implementation of policies and initiatives that encourage gender equity, we believe that the enrollment numbers will continue to improve.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

One of the underlying policies preventing benefit equity is the NIH Grants Policy sec.11.3.8 But not every institution has the funding or administrative structures in place to initiate such changes, especially for postdocs, positions that have historically been underrecognized in academia and broader scientific culture.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The incorporation of corporate governance into academia introduces a set of values and priorities that can restrict the traditional autonomy and academic freedom that define a self-governing profession. Zulu, C (2016) Gender equity and equality in higher education leadership: Whats social justice and substantive equality got to do with it?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Dr. Travis York, director of Inclusive STEMM Ecosystems for Equity & Diversity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science The issue has consequences beyond academia, says Dr. Travis York, director of Inclusive STEMM Ecosystems for Equity & Diversity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Because several minoritized professors are being hired at once, they are less likely to be tokenized and burdened with extra diversity, equity, and inclusion work. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

Poised as guardians of socially responsible AI, universities have an important role to play in: Ethical advocacy – By engaging in public discourse and policy development, universities can advocate for AI applications that uphold social justice, equity and environmental sustainability. The future of ethical AI depends on a delicate balance.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 4, 2024

Metzler, a true visionary in academia, healthcare, and diversity, passed away on Saturday, March 23, at his home in Grenada. As most recent Board Chair of the LEAD Fund (The Fund for Leadership, Equity, Access, and Diversity), Metzler exemplified dedication to inclusive excellence. Christopher A. In a statement to ABC4.com,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Committee members often arrive unprepared. The tenure process is a social and political process.

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HEPI

JULY 18, 2024

Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry Digital marketing and PR strategies are now integral to brand visibility and engagement. Issues related to digital equity, accessibility, and data privacy must also be addressed to ensure inclusivity and ethical practices.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

Through the November 2023 HBCU/MSI Research Summit — a joint effort between Virginia Tech’s Graduate School and the Pamplin College of Business — the university welcomed 25 visiting faculty and staff from participating institutions.

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The PIE News

JULY 9, 2024

Highlighting industry-academia collaboration as the need for Indian higher education, with initiatives like professor of practice, research and development cells, industry relations cell, and centres for collaborations, Kumar stated that artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are also booming in Indian space.

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

As academia continues to grapple with the speedy advancement of AI, CIOs must be willing to step up and educate their campuses on practical use cases of this groundbreaking technology.

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2023

. “Many education and workplace strategies for Black learners and workers only focus on credential attainment, but this is not enough to solve education and economic disparities,” said JFF Vice President Michael Collins, leader of JFF’s Center for Racial Economic Equity, in a press release. More from UB: Reparations for HBCUs?

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ACRLog

MARCH 31, 2023

I got to catch up with some of my graduating cohort, since we’re all now scattered across the country (academia, am I right?) It can be a struggle to explain a job in academia to those outside of it and knowing that everyone here had that baseline understanding was lovely. It was different in Pittsburgh.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

However, in developing media and recruitment campaigns, colleges and universities can partner with marketing companies, and social media influencers, to increase the visibility of successful African American men in academia and professional fields can inspire and motivate younger generations.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

As guardians of data and record integrity with direct contact to faculty, students, and academia, AACRAO members are in a pivotal position to address the barriers to implementation of policies and practices aimed at alleviating issues related to transfer, credit mobility, and recognition of learning.

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