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Columbia University Reaches Out to HBCUs for Fellowship Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Program adviser Dr. John E. Williams, a director of student affairs and DEI for graduate programs in sustainability management and sustainability science, tours the country and tells people about what the Ivy League school’s fellowship can offer them. For its previous cohort, SPS saw applicants from 30.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

In addition to this project, the college recently hosted its third annual Women’s Global Leadership Conference, entitled “Leading Inclusively: Transformative Change Across the Globe.”. Strategic Plans + Climate Survey = Inclusive Excellence — Ball State University. AmeriCorps Tutors for Youth — Arkansas State University.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. It serves to recruit local talent for the graduate school pipeline to help diversify the workforce. Dreamline Pathways A.T.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By example, the counseling/advising unit uses an intrusive model, monitoring students’ progress and regularly checking in on them. This program really helped me in terms of my career path,” says Tajrian, who is planning to apply to medical school, and says AAP was tremendously helpful in her understanding of what that entails. “I

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Lottery admissions: Are they feasible in an anti-DEI environment?

University Business

.” This fall, for example, the School of Medicine at Queen’s University in Canada will blindly select a predetermined number of students from a pool of applicants who meet designated GPA, MCAT and Acuity Insight’s Casper assessment test scores.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He joined the faculty of Connecticut College in 2003, and was an associate professor of history, director of the African American studies program as well as interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion, chair of the history department and director of the Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

“It’s kind of like in medical school when they talk about the ‘half-life of knowledge.’ ’ The medical school dean tells graduates, ‘In five years, half of what we tell you will turn out to be false,’” said Alexei Efros, computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley.