Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) “From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals (NEXTGEN),” UAPB’s Dr. Nina Lyon-Bennett will be heading a scholarship initiative for students pursuing degrees related to agriculture and family and consumer sciences at UAPB and Fort Valley State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

The higher education institutions conferring honorary degrees on Zelensky committed to assisting Ukraine in other ways. Scholarships, for example, are an especially effective means to help Ukrainians build a better future for their nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2025

The expansion coincides with a substantial financial aid commitment through The Rice Investment program, which offers full-tuition scholarships to students from families earning under $140,000 and at least half-tuition for those earning between $140,000 and $200,000.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

Title: Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies & Faculty-in-Residence for Hispanic Serving Institute Initiatives in the Office of the Provost at San Jos State University Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.A., That explains quite a bit about Gomezs scholarship, teaching methods and service. Jonathan D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

Title: Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies & Faculty-in-Residence for Hispanic Serving Institute Initiatives in the Office of the Provost at San Jos State University Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.A., That explains quite a bit about Gomezs scholarship, teaching methods and service. Jonathan D.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 21, 2025

April 21, 2025, by Dean Hoke : With this profile of Davidson College, I complete the tenth and final entry in my series exploring small colleges across the United States. Curricula Davidson College offers a broad and rigorous liberal arts education, exclusively focused on undergraduate learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS—Amid the ongoing attacks to higher education, experts who study the field are gathering this week to debate and respond to the growing political challenges that have impacted colleges and universities. asked Martínez-Alemán, who is also an associate dean for faculty & academic affairs at Boston College.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 27, 2025

With funding from the National Science Foundations Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (NSF S-STEM) program, we provide scholarships and support students with co-curricular activities to enhance their educational experience.

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Academe Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

Northwestern shall not limit speech, scholarship or criticism of any nation or government. The university’s legal resources shall be used to defend the rights of Northwestern University and its faculty, students, and staff from unlawful federal actions, including from censorship of teaching and research on identities and diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Other panel discussions will include a variety of other sessions, including a plenary called Lifting the Veil: What They Don't Tell Us about Publishing," that includes Diverse executive editor and Trinity Washington University professor and associate dean, Dr. Jamal Watson. You should come to this conference. asked Samuel.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Emily Roxworthy “Removing the tuition burden for the MFA acting and writing programs is an important investment in the future of storytelling and the performing arts,” said Dr. Emily Roxworthy, dean of USC’s School of Dramatic Arts. “So By offering free tuition, we can now give more of these promising students the artistic home they deserve.”

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 25, 2025

The EY Leadership Education in Accounting and Diversity (EY LEADs) Program helps retain underrepresented students in accounting by providing academic and career support. Additionally, the firm offers virtual internships and supports the EY Intern Scholarship Fund, providing needs-based awards to those participating in EY internships.

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The PIE News

JUNE 5, 2023

One of the topics highlighted during sessions at spring conferences, such as NAFSA , ASU +GSV and DETcon , was AI and its implications on the international education sector. Global engagement education technology provider Terra Dotta , announced plans to integrate generative AI into its global engagement platform.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Tina Tchen, left, and SLN CEO Yolonda Marshall sit in conversation at the Whole Girl Education National Conference. Secondary and postsecondary education must play key roles in the future of the American democracy. Tchen told listeners that, at this moment in time, education and democracy are walking “on the knife’s edge.” “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Logan Powell Frank Mullin The university reports that about 18% of its new 1,725-student class come from groups historically underrepresented in higher education, a decline from 27% in 2023. About 45% will receive need-based scholarship or grant aid, a decrease from 50%; and roughly 14% are first-generation college students, down from 15%.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 14, 2025

April 14, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of Tuskegee University is the ninth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background Founded in 1881 by educator Booker T. Washington’s self-help philosophy and has played a pivotal role in African American education for over a century.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

The president of the National Education Association called the lack of classroom teachers a “ five-alarm crisis.” The flow of new teachers through the pipeline has slowed to a trickle, in part due to years of declining enrollment in education programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Daniel Diermeier, the university's chancellor, announced the university’s commitment to offering full-tuition scholarships to admitted students of families whose annual income is $150,000 or less. “We Christiansen, vice provost for university enrollment affairs and dean of admissions and financial aid.

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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. Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N. Less than 10% of applicants are accepted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

While we know that they bring value to the classroom, they’re very much absent in the classroom as educators, as teachers,” said Strachan, acting chair of the Department of Teacher Education & Leadership at Alabama A&M University. Strachan said she wants to figure out why fewer than 2% of all teachers in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

million grant through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Hank Weddington, dean of the College of Education and Human Services. Lenoir-Rhyne University has been awarded a $1.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We take an approach that includes public programming, education K-16 and beyond, how we roll out online curricula, how we do social media, blogs, everything else. What we try to do is also incorporate finance, development, public programming, visitor services, disability studies, as well as what you would expect, the curation and education.

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Deans for Impact

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It was the first time that Valerie and her friends had experienced Pidgin being treated by an educator as worthy of deep study and analysis, and they felt affirmed and validated. That’s the power of an educator,” she says. “To Those were my first experiences as an educator, and they made me excited about the potential of teaching.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Facing a national shortage of early childhood educators , the Community College of Vermont (CCV) and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) have teamed up for an innovative solution: paying students to reduce their hours at their jobs in favor of taking more classes. SVMC’s initial idea was to fund scholarships.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

March 3, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of the College of Wooster is the fourth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Known for its commitment to mentored undergraduate research, Wooster offers a comprehensive liberal arts education in a residential setting. states and 76 countries.

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The PIE News

MAY 31, 2024

The prize is sponsored by former NAFSA president and chair of the NAFSA board of directors, John Hudzik and his wife Anne, and will be awarded to individuals who have made sustained contributions to areas such as scholarship activity, administrative leadership, community engagement, and education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. She is also president of the educational psychology division of the American Psychological Association [APA].

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Debra Hanken Kurtz Debra Hanken Kurtz has been named associate dean of technology and digital scholarship for Florida State University Libraries. She served as director of data governance at Arizona State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When Adrianne Washington, dean of special academic programs at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), found that the Honors Program was overlooking the school’s Black men, it didn’t sit right with her. Washington is dean of the nascent Honors College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. If a faculty member is assigned more teaching and/or more service, and has less time available for scholarship, they should be evaluated accordingly. The criteria should be read aloud, prior to evaluating that dimension. Dr. Donna Y.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Higher education is re-envisioning its offerings from the ground up to acclimate itself to the emerging demands of a digital workforce. Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: DENVER—As snow fell from gray skies on Tuesday, higher education professionals, publishers, librarians, information technologists, government researchers and others met this week for the Coalition for Networked Information spring membership meeting. “I know that’s part of the misinformation issue,” Tzoc said.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Examples of the center’s projects include the development of the “Children Eating Well” (CHEW) app, which promotes nutrition education and healthy habits for families. Another study will examine national firearm data to inform public policy and discussions on firearm-related racial disparities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

He also held served as a dean at Northwestern University and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. McBride is the former president of The New School in New York City and was provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

Emilie Townes comes to Boston University from Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School, where she was dean emerita and the Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society. Her scholarship as a womanist and Black theology comprises work on social issues such as racial health disparities and environmental racism.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2024

” Greene’s comments shed light on a more significant issue across higher education. As institutions increase their need- and merit-based scholarships to assist families from opposite ends of the economic spectrum, students in the middle are left with fewer options—and higher bills. Is aid a zero-sum game?

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