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Report: California Community College Leadership Growing More Diverse But CEOs Face Shorter Tenures

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California community college presidents and chancellors are spending less time in their roles while the leadership ranks are becoming increasingly diverse, highlighting Dr. Larry Galizio both challenges and progress in the nation's largest public higher education system.

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Paradigm Shift: DEI, Anti-DEI, or Underrepresentation?

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Supreme Court struck down race-consciousness in college admissions upending four decades of precedent and reshaping the landscape of higher education (Edelman, 2023, par. Placing measurable diversity expectations and holding leadership accountable is fundamental. In June 2023, the U. Dr. Carl B. Dr. Terry A.

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Women in Leadership: Empowering Change across Generations and Cultures

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Monica Parrish Trent, CEO, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Foundation (Formerly with Achieving the Dream). She exemplifies the empathy and innovation that women bring to leadership in higher education. Dr. Trents leadership is deeply rooted in student advocacy, particularly for underserved and marginalized students.

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Mississippi Delta Community College Picks Its Next Leader

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He obtained a graduate certificate in community college leadership and a Ph.D. in higher education administration from The University of Southern Mississippi, along with a certificate in diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace from the University of South Florida.

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'Need for Love More Profound, Harder than It's Ever Been'

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The Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, housed within the North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) College of Education, held its tenth annual Dallas Herring Lecture on Tuesday, featuring Dr. Russell Lowery-Hart, chancellor of the Austin Community College District (ACC).

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Challenges for Higher Education: An Emerging Skills Shortage and Inequity in the Workforce

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American higher education is called upon to serve a variety of purposes: advancement of knowledge, expansion of cultural appreciation, extending understanding of societal benefits and obligations, and preparing a diversity of students with the skills they need for a successful and rewarding life. Dr. George R. & Rios-Aguilar, C.,

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Indigenous Peoples in Higher Education: Inherited Histories and Pernicious Status Quos

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and worldwide, have a complicated relationship with institutions of education. While Indigenous peoples had systems of education before Europeans ever arrived on the shores of the Americas, this all changed when Native nations experienced forced removals while Euromericans pursued goals of conquest, westward expansion, and manifest destiny.

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