Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 31, 2023

Ron DeSantis announced plans on Tuesday to defund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at Florida’s colleges and universities. 12, his administration introduced a statewide ban on a new Advanced Placement course about African American studies. In total, the state’s 12 public universities spent a combined $34.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

Soon after she was hired for the school’s journalism department, McElroy learned of internal pushback – now discovered to be at least six board of regents members – over her previous work to improve newsroom diversity and inclusion, said McElroy, a former New York Times editor. She rejected the offer.

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University Business

MAY 16, 2023

As the Spring semester ends, administration across Florida’s public colleges and universities will have to work quickly to descale most programs or resources related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Moreover, the bill places higher accountability on university presidents to fire faculty. On Monday, Gov.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 22, 2025

Karen Gross , Southern Vermont College (VT), I am proud to sign the Champions of Education pledge, along with over 100 former college and university presidents. The current administration has threatened one of the hallmarks of our Democracy: education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

The State University System of Florida Board of Governors decision to eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the University of Florida is the latest example. Finally, inherent in academic acumen is a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Supreme Court heard arguments regarding race-conscious admissions policies, higher education stakeholders gathered to discuss the barriers keeping more women and people of color from becoming college and university presidents. According to 2021 data, 60% of the University of California (UC) chancellors are white.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Jack Thomas In my own journey, leading a campus with such diverse student representation has reinforced the importance of embracing diversity and fostering a culture of inclusivity. The increased focus on diversity and inclusion was both a challenge and an opportunity. My faith has been a source of strength throughout my career.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

Collectively, the authors seek to reconstruct a more contemporary, diversified leadership perspective that empowers African American faculty, administrators, staff, and other leadership aspirants in the academy. As an academic book, each chapter opens with an abstract and ends with discussion and reflection questions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

With the goal of infusing scholarship into practice, thousands of student affairs practitioners from colleges and universities across the nation gathered in Boston to strategize about the future of the profession. Shivers said that the value of her work is that she is able to help create communities of belonging and inclusion.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Senior administrators must recognize that campus issues like cancel culture and self-censorship are often symptoms of deeper organizational problems. It’s hardly a new observation that, in corporatespeak, colleges and universities are ailing companies. If your garden yields weeds, you don’t add new flowers and fertilizer.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Colleges and universities have also been at the center of one of the most critical issues of our day: the advancement of diversity, equity and inclusion. As diversity per se has increased, so has the need for colleges to address the complexity of true inclusion—an issue that faces all institutions today.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

First the Republican governor announced plans to defund diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at state colleges and universities. FIRE also weighed in on plans to expand the power of presidents over faculty tenure. Image: The Ron DeSantis takeover of Florida higher education was on full display Tuesday.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image: Stanford University leaders are seeking to make amends for past actions by former administrators who systematically and secretly discriminated against Jewish students seeking admission to the university. “There are accents. They don’t know how to dress.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2024

Schexnider — a retired university president — has given us much to reflect upon in his newly published memoir titled, Confessions of a Black Academic (McFarland & Company, Inc.). in political science from Northwestern University in 1973. He went on to earn a Ph.D. and doubled the school’s endowment, from $9.8 million to $18.8

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 16, 2024

Discussions have remained ongoing, as university president Ed Seidel, PhD, organized a working group made up of staff senate, faculty senate, deans, and administrators to “provide suggestions … on how essential DEI programs, activities, and functions could be organized and funded within the university to make them most effective.”

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 11, 2024

Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce seized the opportunity to scrutinize colleges’ DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) practices during a recent two-hour hearing titled “Divisive, Excessive, Ineffective: The Real Impact of DEI on College Campuses,” led by Rep. Burgess Owens (R.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

I was always advocating for students rights and issues, working with administration, leaders, and university presidents advocating for university students, says Briscoe of her time at ASU. I really call for university presidents and leaders to respond to this moment."

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Other parsed the statement’s subtleties, noting the presidents’ careful language used to describe their plan to continue doing what they’ve always done—teach, not compel “belief”—while still appeasing the DeSantis administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2024

Schexnider — a retired university president — has given us much to reflect upon in his newly published memoir titled, Confessions of a Black Academic (McFarland & Company, Inc.). in political science from Northwestern University in 1973. He went on to earn a Ph.D. and doubled the school’s endowment, from $9.8 million to $18.8

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

Cole led the Division of Student Affairs at Marquette for the past seven years and was recognized by his peers and students for his response to the pandemic and for cultivating an inclusive campus culture for first-generation students and those of color. He was the university’s first Black president.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Disturbing Trend in Florida Under Governor DeSantis’s administration, Florida has witnessed legislative maneuvers aimed at reshaping the educational landscape. However, the process faced challenges, notably the reluctance of current administrators and political leaders to engage, signifying the deep-seated nature of this issue.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

Dr. Hsu candidly shared that the initial creation of the School of Health Sciences was done through administrative action without full faculty consultation, which, although permissible under existing policies at the time, triggered strong opposition from faculty members. It’s been innovative. It’s doing a lot of new programs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2023

President turnover is a major problem for higher ed leadership, with the average tenure of leaders serving in this capacity at one institution declining sharply from 10 years to a shocking 3.7 There’s also an unprecedented amount of pushback on DEI when diversity and inclusion were once very much a part of higher ed.

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Changing Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2015

Lombardi , in How Universities Work. This somewhat cynical observation by Lombardi was informed by his broad and sometimes painful experiences as Provost at Johns Hopkins University, President of the University of Florida, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and President of the Louisiana State University System.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The presidential turnover crisis in higher education has seen university presidents’ tenures steadily diminishing for nearly two decades, now falling significantly short of the recommended ten-year benchmark. These restrictions pose a substantial challenge for educational institutions that are committed to fostering inclusivity.

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University Business

APRIL 7, 2023

“We affirm both academic freedom and our responsibility to foster an inclusive learning community,” the faculty statement said. Tim McGrath has resigned following being placed on temporary administrative leave. Importantly, these values neither contradict nor supersede each other.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Boards are charged with overseeing an institution’s mission, vision, values, strategic direction, financial health, academic quality, student success, community engagement, diversity, inclusion, research, faculty development, campus safety, and more. Those responsibilities do not stop with the university administration.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Those initial 2-3 years ended up stretching to 38 ½ years before I retired in March 2021, covering six countries and territories and incorporating a move from faculty to academic administration. . To some extent, this is inevitable when, say, a faculty member assumes administrative responsibilities. Flexibility is valued.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2024

Kate were drawn to the president’s experience in enacting university wide growth strategies and her commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. She is the past president of the American Counseling Association as well as of the Association for Creativity in Counseling. Mark Walker – Lee University (Tenn.)

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 14, 2023

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. I prefer to talk about leadership rather than administration, because administration connotes bureaucracy. We can't escape that.

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HESA

APRIL 6, 2023

Most of them public, about 75% public including a whole sector of non-university tertiary education institutions like technical colleges and polytechnics that were very popular and most of them were very good. It produced good quality education, generally speaking, and, and it was rather inclusive socially.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 14, 2023

However, only about 33% of women are full-tenured professors in higher ed, a 2020 American Association of University Professors study found. Meanwhile, the number of female faculty, senior faculty, and administrators constantly fails to reflect the steady rise of female students over the past 25 years. Elissa Sangster 16:01 Right.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Leadership in Challenging Times: Insights on effective leadership for current and future university presidents. 00:10:03] Brit Kirwan: Well, I saw a poll not so long ago that asked was a poll of provost about whether they would consider becoming a university president. And it’s understandable. [00:09:59]

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 25, 2023

These programs create foundations of knowledge to examine the limitations of people participating in these types of programs to increase inclusion and accessibility in the innovation and entrepreneurial space. He is also chair of the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee and co-vice chair of the Council for Inclusive Innovation.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

So, who would've thought coming from my background into private equity and then ending up in a state nonprofit system would have evolved to being the president of CSU Global? in Psychology from Hampton University, an M.S.Ed. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

Dr. Grimes, with over 17 years in higher education, brings a wealth of experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion in graduate education. His firm specializes in providing insights and resources on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Graduate Education. His academic journey culminated with a Ph.D. Drumm: Very good.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Diversity and inclusion are at the heart of President Teniente-Matson and SJSU’s mission. The university has implemented diverse programs and initiatives aimed at supporting underrepresented students to create an inclusive campus culture. Three Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards 1.

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