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HBCUs Continue to Meet Their Mission During Tough Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brandi Waters, senior program manager of AP African American Studies at the College Board, and Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar, professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She is always looking to center the story of Black women in history, particularly to find ways to make those stories resonate with the students of today.

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Cultural Competence: A Critical Skill for Today’s Police Officers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Together, higher education and policing can be effective partners to frame cultural competence education and training to better serve diverse populations. Fundamentally, the police are responsible for understanding the culture, history, and issues affecting the communities they serve. police officers. Dr. Neil D.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bowman (left), Michigan State University’s associate dean for academic and student affairs, and other leaders from the university’s college of education. Photo by Trevor Hawks | Michigan State University College of Education Dr. Jerlando F. It was in doing that role where my interest in being a dean was rekindled.

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President moves: What happened for these 3 leaders to resign?

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They credited her for jumpstarting the institution’s new model for fiscal sustainability, breaking records in research expenditures and leading its athletics department into the Pac-12 Conference. Marie Hardin – Quinnipiac University (Conn.) Prior to that, she was vice provost at Utah State University.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational. The addition of 54 new faculty from underrepresented groups means the university has its most diverse group of faculty in its 200-year history.

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

Kent Smith, PhD, associate dean and professor, Office of American Indians in Medicine and Science at OSU-CHS and the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Tulsa, Oklahoma. The program enhances skills, boosts higher education success, and increases career awareness in STEM fields, supporting ASU’s commitment to diverse educational programs.

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Actions of Last Resort in the Academy (Part 1: Internal Avenues)

Inside Higher Ed

History chronicles moments where people pushed, pulled, shoved, harassed, bullied or beaten chose fighting over fleeing. The continuum ranges from stories of quiet personal rebellion to ones of explosive cultural and political movements changing the course of history. Blog: Just Explain It to Me!