Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Interestingly, the veil that Du Bois wrote about still exists today, especially in the American Academy — the network of colleges, universities, associations, and organizations that provide and support higher education — despite the fact that some of America’s most illustrious educational institutions are headed by Black provosts and presidents.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to focusing on attracting diverse faculty, HEED schools understand that retention is also critically important. All HEED Award-winning schools prioritize the hiring and retention of diverse faculty and staff as a best practice in alignment with their DEI strategic goals.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 21, 2023

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – March 21, 2023 — Dean Hoke, of Bloomington, Indiana, has been chosen to serve as the next President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of University Administrators ( AAUA ), currently based in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. King will retire after nineteen years of service in that position.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

There are 31 different BMI programs, but each has the same overall goals: increase the enrollment and matriculation, retention, GPA, and graduation rate of underrepresented students. Innovation And Growth The seeds of BMI were first planted in 2000 at Medgar Evers College, a CUNY institution in central Brooklyn.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams’s parents had met during their time at Southern and A&M College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His first ambition after college was to make money, and he entered the corporate world and earned his MBA from Fontbonne University. Everyone didn’t feel that way.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. Slated to begin operating in the fall, the honors college will enroll students who have a GPA of 3.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Scott-Johnson will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Spelman College, effective Aug. I look forward to guiding additional pathways for advancing faculty, at all levels, and delivering innovation in student success from retention to graduation. Dr. Pamela E.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Image: Savannah O’Connor, a junior in Rowan University’s College of Education, doesn’t have much free time. At the Rowan ceremony, students, cheered by friends and family, walked across the stage to receive pins from the College of Education’s dean, Gaëtane Jean-Marie.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Hicks is a tenured full professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at East Tennessee State University, where he has served as a dean for the Clemmer College of Education and Human Development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) has received $75,000 to increase retention, completion, and transfer success for male students of color. Dr. Sunni L. This grant will allow us to create academic courses, establish standard research experiences and reimagine Honors spaces keeping diversity and inclusion top of mind.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. Smart is a former Dean of Arts & Sciences at QU, Professor Emeritus of English, and resident of the great state of Maine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving world, the role of colleges and universities extends beyond the traditional boundaries of teaching and research. Young believes the college’s community engagement work is a standout, contributing to students' success. These include: Commit to intentional engagement. Encourage regular assessment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

He explained his departure in an open letter, claiming that Dr. Clarence Lang, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, had refused to follow through on a commitment to hire two new tenure-line faculty. There were 10 fewer Black tenure-line faculty overall in fall 2022 compared to the year before. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

“The funding from this grant will enable students at these two universities to pursue an undergraduate education in food, agricultural, human sciences and related programs without the stress of tuition coverage,” saidLyon- Bennett, assistant dean for academics for the UAPB School of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Human Sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

She also served as a department chair and interim associate dean in the College of Education and Integrative Studies as well as an associate vice president for student success. Gomez served as interim provost and vice president of academic affairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Felder, president of Harford Community College in Maryland, where Stout began her community college career in 1984.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Daniel , executive vice president and chief operating officer of Education Forward Arizona, has been appointed president of South Mountain Community College, in Arizona. Van Brunt , provost and vice president for academic affairs at Gwynedd Mercy University, in Pennsylvania, has been chosen as president of Spring Hill College, in Alabama.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Georgia State University has launched a teacher prep and retention program to help ensure students in metro Atlanta school districts receive stable, qualified classroom instruction. The college is expected to support the professional development of 270 educators over the three-year project.

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2024

Larry Johnson first encountered Stella and Charles Guttman Community College in 2015 as a dean at Broward College (Fla.) when he read the seminal book “Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.” Johnson is no longer a distant admirer. .

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. ” “I am one of many pretenure faculty who are leaving the college,” Bell said.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

But with the well of federal relief aid expired, community colleges that have historically served the nation’s most underresourced populations have been forced to cull together various resources to keep their at-risk students from stopping out and regain those lost due to finances. Of the $76.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Griffin, professor and dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. The results, for many colleges, were not pretty. Only 13% of colleges received the highest possible grade when it came to African Americans, and only 7% received top marks for Latinx diversity. Dr. Kimberly A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The partnership between Sacred Heart University’s Farrington College of Education & Human Development and Stamford Public Schools will be laser-focused on identifying and recruiting local talent to ensure that classrooms are led by teachers who better represent the families and the children they serve. We are not stopping with Stamford.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hiring Torey Alston – Broward College (Fla.) The Broward College Board of Trustees has appointed Torey Alston as president. Quinnipiac University has found its next leader in Marie Hardin, professor and dean of Pennsylvania State University’s communications college. Joseph Odenwald – Alma College (Mich.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2022

His Future College Graduate Academy targets potential scholars from low-income homes that earn less than $55,000 a year and sees them through graduation. It helps roughly 100 students complete college each year. We recognize our responsibility at MSU and in New Jersey to try to impact these urban centers.”

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. News college rankings often point out that much of the data used to compile the rankings is provided by “experts” who range from high school guidance counselors to admissions counselors and faculty members at various higher education institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

She couldn’t imagine herself, a Mexican Filipina American, as a college president, much less a university chancellor, because she’d never seen someone like herself in those positions. years on average, according to the Community College League of California’s CEO tenure and retention dashboard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

University of Florida (UF) faculty have expressed worry about a new regulation that would allow college deans to review employment of tenured faculty every five years instead of seven, The Gainesville Sun reported. UF faculty already have a tenured review process that takes place every seven years.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Community college students find themselves running into the same obstacles time and again on their way to credential completion: costs, blocked academic pathways and competing life priorities. Grayson College also hit a 19-year high student success rate (81%) two years after revamping its eight-week course schedule offerings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Seventy-one percent of its students are first-generation college students and more than half are Pell eligible. At the latter, she was the founding dean of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services. This leadership position enables her to further her commitment to inclusive excellence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The culturally reflective mentoring will fill a critical gap in how universities meet the needs of all doctoral students by advancing retention practices and building social capital.” As the largest historically Black university in the nation, N.C.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

John Butler – Boston College (Mass.) John Butler, Boston College Boston College has announced its next president, the Rev. Serving on the president’s senior leadership team since 2010, Boston College considers Butler an architect of its revamped core curriculum. She begins her new position in June.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 25, 2023

The $288,000 award will fund a study led by Nicole Guajardo, PhD, dean of the College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences at CNU, to assess the atmosphere on campus for women in STEM and identify potential barriers to their professional success.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

That’s how academic advising at Tallahassee Community College used to look, says Pamela Johnston, dean of career and academic planning there: “Very reactionary.” COVID-19, of course, complicated the project but also introduced new modes of advising, some of which the college has retained because they work so well.

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Liaison International

AUGUST 22, 2023

Before joining Liaison, Coen was a key leader at Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL) where she served as senior vice president of consulting services responsible for over 100 higher education consultants in the areas of student recruitment, retention, and fundraising. She has a Master of Public Administration degree from Central Michigan University.

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