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Houston Dean Accused of Racial, LGBTQ Harassment

Inside Higher Ed

Two University of Houston–Downtown preliminary investigation reports “substantiated” that a now former dean “said on multiple occasions that it would make him look good that he hired a Black, gay man,” according to documents provided anonymously to Inside Higher Ed.

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Miami Dade College: A Hispanic Serving Institution Documenting “Servingness” through Community Engagement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and the Associate Dean of Research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, where she also leads the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity & Justice and the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions.

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A dean and her son experience community college (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Data reports and college initiative documents blanket my desk. Benton is dean of English and reading at Montgomery College, in Maryland, and an adjunct faculty member in George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development. As I look around my office, 18 years of texts crowd my bookcases. Elizabeth M.

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Building an Academic Space for Black Women Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In graduate school, we began exchanging documents for awards, fellowships, grants, and other opportunities and we realized that while our research was separate, it was also complementary, allowing us to strengthen each others applications.

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The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Inevitably, the document pairs its lonely truth with an almost laughable falsehood, stating that tax law scholars who are female are “difficult or impossible to find.” Steven Dean Our tax laws remain outliers on race in their insistence on near total color-blindness. Neither Stanford nor the University of Chicago have any.

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Librarians' "new normal" includes pain points

Inside Higher Ed

Ithaka S+R shared results from its triennial survey published last week, which sought to capture college library deans’ and directors’ perspectives three years into the pandemic. “Maybe that’s too high of a bar to say that you have an explicit, documented strategy somewhere.” ” Hulbert said.

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The Growing Role of Artificial Intelligence in College Admissions

Insight Into Diversity

One common use for AI is automating an applicant’s preliminary screening using the data from documents like transcripts and SAT or ACT scores. Ryan Motevalli-Oliner, associate dean for enrollment operations at Kenyon, doesn’t see that changing.

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