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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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

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