Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. Dr. Natalie Person, dean for curricular development at Rhodes college, notes that Memphis is one of the most understudied regions in the United States.

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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. Strengths Historic Legacy and Mission: Tuskegees history is a cornerstone of its identity. military history. Background Founded in 1881 by educator Booker T. and abroad.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Mamie Voight Citing Chief Justice John Robert’s majority decision on the matter, EducationCounsel co-founder Art Coleman said that it was still possible to strategize and innovate to promote access, equity, and diversity in higher ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

or higher and an interest in Black history, life, and culture. The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

“She has a wealth of experience as a community college president overseeing a budget of over $300 million at Pasadena City College, and she served as a dean at SBCC for nine years. She has demonstrated that she is equity and antiracism focused, transparent and collaborative.” in history from the University of Southern California.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Its a historic program, the first in the country like it, the largest like it, and therefore, the history precedes us, says Quash. She and fellow BMI program leader and dean for diversity and compliance at Hunter, John Rose, have focused on giving Hunters young men of color as much agency as they can, engaging them through empowerment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. University of Maryland campus, Memorial Chapel. It’s our own small way to ensure that all voices are heard, and all people are respected.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig, dean of the University of Kentucky’s (UK) College of Education, has been named the winner of the University Council for Educational Administration's (UCEA) 2022 Linda C. Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig The award – named after diversity and equity advocate Linda C. Tillman Social and Racial Justice Award.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

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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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 19, 2023

Rhodes College has received an $800,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to create a new program that will focus on researching and developing curricula related to racial equity, discrimination, and justice in Memphis and the Mid-South region.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Disciplines involved include history, literary studies, philosophy, bioethics, cultural studies, religion, psychology, medical anthropology, and the visual and performing arts. The center will apply a medical humanities approach in addressing health disparities related to race/ethnicity and income, and health equity.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Two prominent efforts to diversify music in academia are the new University of Arkansas’ (UA) Arkansas Center for Black Music and the creation of the George Walker Center for Equity and Inclusion in Music at the University of Rochester’s (UR) Eastman School of Music (Eastman). Walton Foundation.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Image: Connecticut College president Katherine Bergeron is stepping down in the wake of student protests and widespread calls for her resignation over missteps on diversity, equity and inclusion. “For the past nine and a half years, I have devoted myself to advancing educational excellence and equity at this College.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) has a long history of ensuring a more inclusive and equitable educational experience for students of all backgrounds. PCOM, a premier osteopathic medical school with three campuses, has implemented several initiatives aimed at promoting equity in student recruitment and community outreach.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

history, gender and race with the law. Eventually, both became Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) leaders. Jackson, formerly a professor and department chair at UW – Madison who is now the dean of the College of Education at Michigan State University, and James L. Sherri Charleston studied the intersection of U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational. The college also ran two successful cohorts of the eight-week Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Student Passport Program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Since 1804, the New-York Historical Society (New-York Historical) and its stewards have been preserving and showcasing history. The new scholarship will support students, especially those from historically underrepresented communities or those with professional commitments to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

history, Tufts University; M.A., Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University. international affairs, The New School; and Ph.D., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. The students keep me hopeful.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig, an educational researcher whose work on racial equity and teacher preparation has received national recognition, will be the next provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University. Over these 16 years, he has excelled as a scholar, academic leader and civil rights activist.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

The venue has a history of racial discrimination and antisemitism. The college’s dean of institutional equity and inclusion quit over the fundraiser, which has since been called off. The students are angry about a planned fundraising event at Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Fla.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

Amid escalating political attacks on diversity, equity & inclusion work, over 1,100 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) professionals descended on Baltimore last week for the 17 th annual National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) Annual Conference. That’s what it is.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The college’s dean, Dr. David E. A graduate of Morehouse College, Canton earned a master’s degree in Black studies at The Ohio State University and a doctorate in history at Temple University. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2024

Fundamentally, the police are responsible for understanding the culture, history, and issues affecting the communities they serve. However, values such as cultural appreciation and equity-minded decision-making often elude officers who interact daily with people from diverse backgrounds. police officers. Dr. Neil D.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The venue has a history of racial discrimination and antisemitism ; it famously barred both Black crooner Sammy Davis Jr. Rodmon King, the college’s former dean of institutional equity and inclusion (IEI), resigned in protest over the fundraiser on Tuesday after Bergeron decided to proceed with the event despite his concerns.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. Danielle Ren Holley: Mount Holyoke College Before being reined as the 20th president of Mount Holyoke College, she was busy revitalizing Howard University’s school of law as dean and professor.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history. Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

history, Tufts University; M.A., Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University. international affairs, The New School; and Ph.D., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. The students keep me hopeful.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Hamline University (Minnesota) The Minnesota school fired a professor for what it claimed was an “Islamophobic” act by the professor showing her students a 14th-century painting of the prophet Muhammad—during a lesson on Islamic art history. Tenured faculty also face this risk during tenure reviews.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Committee members often arrive unprepared. The tenure process is a social and political process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the program has seen a slow uptake, but leaders are optimistic about its future, hopeful and dedicated to building and growing the program at a time when other institutions are cutting back on ethnic and Black studies programs amid pushback against diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bowman (left), Michigan State University’s associate dean for academic and student affairs, and other leaders from the university’s college of education. Gmelch, who, at the time, served as dean of Iowa State’s College of Education and had emerged as a national expert on college deans. “I Jerlando F.

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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. Dr. David A.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The inaugural Insight Into Diversity Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award recognizes academic libraries who are advancing programs and initiatives that support DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in areas such as research, accessibility, community outreach, technology, exhibitions, and collections.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” Imposing fixed time bands is ultimately a political decision that requires input from deans, department chairs and, in most cases, the faculty senate. They must find additional instructors and run the risk of a dean’s wrath if they incorrectly estimate demand. There are two alternatives. Who will teach graduate students?

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Rooted in data-intensive research and digital storytelling, the project offers diverse perspectives on culture, migration, housing equity, community, and disability experiences in the border region. Communities along the U.S.-Mexico

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