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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

As a tenured full professor of political science, a former director of graduate studies and admissions, dean, and now vice president for diversity, I view the crisis of Black faculty and staff retention in the Academy as a quiet earthquake — slowly moving beneath the ground, embodying the terrors that make academic life untenable.

Retention

Retention Disadvantaged Faculty Model

For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Elimelda Ongeri, dean of the John R. Bronwyn Cross-Denny, Christina Gunther, Sofia Pendley, and Jacqueline Vernarelli — recently secured a $1,495,472 HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) grant titled “Public Health Scholarship Program to Strengthen the Emergency Preparedness Workforce.” and Kathy R.

Arts And Sciences

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In addition, Dean Amy Fairchild added an associate dean for faculty and inclusive excellence to her leadership team who is charged with articulating and advancing a vision for inclusive excellence and providing leadership to enhance excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. A $1 million award from the U.S.

Medical School

Medical School Inclusivity Equity Faculty

Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies.

Higher Education

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Program Equips Community College Students to Obtain Four-Year Degrees

Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

First-generation students and those from underrepresented groups and disadvantaged backgrounds are given priority in the application process for the five-week summer program at Vassar, a private liberal arts institution in New York state. Scholarships are awarded to cover tuition and room and board.

Community College

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Challenges Persist for Early-Career Black Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Jackson, the dean of Michigan State University’s College of Education and co-chair of the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education, points out that the challenges described by the surveyed ECAs — such as feeling unsupported in the workplace — are broadly reflective of the experiences of Black academics globally.

Academia

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching? students as they did.

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Direct Admissions Helps Raise Applications, But Not Enrollments

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

We see bigger impacts for these groups because they were the ones disadvantaged by these barriers to begin with.” It’s a roadblock that Dr. Alan Byrd, dean of admissions at George Mason University, one of the schools in the Common App pilot, saw up close. Direct admissions is focused on eliminating those barriers,” said Odle. “We

Disadvantaged

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It bans affirmative action not only in race but other protected categories, and not just in admissions but in hiring practices and awarding money,” says Dr. Mark Henderson, associate dean of admissions and vice chair for education in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of California (UC) Davis.

Medical School

Medical School Schooling Recruitment Deans

Academic Libraries Leading the Way in Accessibility

Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is home to the Purdue University Library Center for Digital Scholarship, whose mission is to “remove barriers to global participation in a knowledge commons and build a more diverse, equitable, and sustainable system of scholarly communication.”

Equity

Equity Inclusivity Environment Retention

2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

to offer scholarships to DACA students. In the past year, MHC created a land acknowledgement policy, established two full-tuition scholarships for Native American/American Indian students, expanded and rededicated the Indigenous cultural center, and hosted MHC’s second annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Teach-In.

Inclusivity

Inclusivity Equity Retention Faculty

Center students in the diversity statement debate (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Students may face challenges because they are transgender, because they are neurodiverse, because of economic disadvantages, because they do not share the cultural background of many people on campus or because they represent the first generation in their family to attend college.

Students

Students Equity Faculty Disadvantaged

A Humanistic Revolution in Legal Education—How Penn State Dickinson Law Is Reimagining Anti-Racism in Action

Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 28, 2025

In the wake of George Floyds murder, as institutions across the country wrestled with what it means to confront systemic racism, one law school took actionright in the deans backyard. Recommended by Dean Conway as an essential read to understand race and identity beyond binary terms. and Europe. Danielle M. Misty (01:20) Amazing.

Law School

Law School Education Inclusivity Scholarship

If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

He went on to chair MIT Sloan School’s Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting; then became Deputy Dean of the school; and eventually serve for three years as the Chief Economist for the Security and Exchange Commission of the United States before returning to MIT. I was certainly right about his career prospects.

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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

For the Common Good

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

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