Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Safa Zaki will become president of Bowdoin College, effective Jul. McCoy Professor of Psychology at Williams College. I am elated by Safa Zaki’s appointment,” said Trustee Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, professor in the Jenkins Department of Biophysics and vice dean in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. “We

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. The IE3 initiative will function similarly to a pilot program instituted by UW and NWC in July 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

She possesses an associate degree earned in her early 20’s from her local community college. Marta also takes care of her mother, who has declining health and requires increasing levels of care. So, while she aspires to become a dental hygienist, the pursuit would require uprooting her family, leaving her job, and accruing significant debt.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

Students from 77 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are set to participate as HBCU Scholars in the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona. We couldn’t be prouder to support them on their journey.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2023

Sabrina Jamal-Eddine During her Bachelor of Science in Nursing studies, Sabrina Jamal-Eddine informed a clinical instructor about her back disability and lifting limitation as well as explaining that she could do everything but except lift a patient.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

DePauw University DePauw’s Bold and Gold 2027 strategic plan seeks to bolster the university around four principles: the liberal arts and sciences; the student experience; institutional equity; and responsible financial and operational management. higher ed institution. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Gilead Sciences Inc. has awarded a grant worth nearly $1 million to the Howard University College of Medicine to promote HIV prevention among Black women and girls. Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Setting the P.A.C.E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

Ohen has been appointed chief equity and inclusion officer at Amherst College. Ohen served as associate dean for equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Ohen Sheree M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It will also be home to endeavors such as The Power of Four Fellowship Program, for freshman looking to pursue on social equity projects; the Social Justice Scholar-in-Residence program; the Youth in Action Prize for youth activism; and the Building Bridges Roundtable, which will have staff and community members meet to discuss local issues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Evans currently serves as chancellor of Bloomfield College of Montclair State University in New Jersey but will take the helm July 15. We were impressed with Dr. Evans’s demonstrated commitment to and experience with advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for students, faculty, and staff,” said Dr. Jean Wincek, chair of the St.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Each year, instructors share their course materials for a lesson study aimed at improving student engagement and achievement through “equity strands” such as standards-based instruction, complex instruction, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teaching for social justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But institutions need to start preparing now for a range of possible outcomes, said Art Coleman, co-founder of EducationCounsel, a consultancy that works with schools on issues of diversity. But the overarching message was that the decisions will reverberate far outside admissions offices and that colleges need to get ready now.

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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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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

While being mindful of the concerns of plagiarism, equity, and access, some have argued educators must not only accept AI in the classroom but must help their students use it effectively as part of their digital literacy (Bender 2024, 9). Out of the panic, an emerging field of practical, practitioner-based research has begun to emerge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Evans currently serves as chancellor of Bloomfield College of Montclair State University in New Jersey but will take the helm July 15. We were impressed with Dr. Evans’s demonstrated commitment to and experience with advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for students, faculty, and staff,” said Dr. Jean Wincek, chair of the St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Hollingsworth had always dreamed of attending an historically Black college and university (HBCU). With Iowa being a predominantly white state, I had limited options of a diverse experience growing up into my college and postsecondary education,” Hollingsworth says. “I Iowa native Juana D. Louis, six hours away.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 18, 2023

José Luis Bermúdez, the interim dean of Texas A&M University’s College of Arts and Sciences, resigned on Monday after the university backtracked on its hiring deal with renowned journalism professor Kathleen O. My continuation in this role would be a needless distraction as you all continue the work that we have begun.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Seven years of college down the drain”? You’ve heard the arguments before, I suspect: “ College Doesn’t Need to Take Four Years. You’ve heard the arguments before, I suspect: “ College Doesn’t Need to Take Four Years.” ” College, say Wall Street Journal contributors Scott L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

In honor of Pride Month, college and university campuses across the U.S. Now, especially with all the anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, it's important that we have visibility on college campuses and in communities," said Shane Windmeyer., Students at Ohio University similarly celebrated Pride through art in late May. 25 at the gallery.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race. A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence. A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Supreme Court, we are further from equity and fairness than we’ve ever been. The Harvard numbers The numbers for Harvard help us realize that what we had before wasn’t so bad if the goal was racial justice and equity. Fairness and equity? The result? After six years of litigation that went all the way to the U.S.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.) Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. from Arizona State University in Psychology.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with her address looming, Oubré and her critics have radically different views of what the state of the college is.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New findings from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) are eerily similar to those of the Department of Education : only 16% of community college students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years. Washington and California showed up again for its low-income students, graduating them at rates at or above 57%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Natalie Galucia The study, Age as a Factor in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education , was conducted between February 2022 and January 2023 and published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Wor k. As people are living and working longer, the need for on-going education and training grows.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“When I was in Japan, I had to accept the fact that I was going to be one of a few in this profession, but also in Japan, percentage wise,” says Dabney, an associate professor of politics and Japanese studies at Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Dr. Dyron K. He holds a B.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Leaders of historically Black colleges and universities have been working to achieve Research-1 status in recent years, the coveted Carnegie Foundation classification reserved for doctoral universities that demonstrate a certain level of research prowess. Meanwhile, North Carolina A&T State University earned $97.3

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Continuous Learning Institute

MARCH 5, 2023

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn about inquiry and action teams and how they help college educators continually improve their craft. In this episode, I interview Dr. Lisa Brewster, Communication Faculty and Guided Pathways Coordinator at Miramar College, San Diego. Scroll down to access the transcript.) Select project highlighted below.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 10, 2024

Department of Education recently awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to California State University, Northridge, to increase the participation of underrepresented students and address equity gaps in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and arts fields. Led by S.K.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As employers grapple with economic constraints of the post-pandemic world and workers re-evaluate their expectations for flexibility, equity and respect in the workplace, higher education continues to lag in preparing the workforce’s rising generation. Students value partnerships built between their college and employers.

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University Business

JULY 19, 2023

As of Monday, however, Bermúdez has resigned as dean of the school’s College of Arts and Sciences, finding his continuation in the role “a needless distraction” amid conservative backlash at the university and state level over McElroy’s hiring. I’m being judged by race, maybe gender.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” It must also: “Analyze the role that complex networks of social structures and systems play in the creation and perpetuation of the dynamics of power, privilege, oppression and opportunity,” and “Apply the principles of rights, access, equity and autonomous participation to past, current, or future social justice action.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Collaborations between Virginia Tech and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have led to 15 research projects supported by grant funding. This effort is one of several seed investment programs by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS).to

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

At college and university academic libraries, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives often involve improving item-collection policies and enhancing access to materials for students and community members, resources for faculty research, and educational programming on related topics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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