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

We educated our campus communities as to what is at stake in Ukraine, facilitated efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian citizens and offered scholarships for Ukrainians interested in pursuing higher education. According to economists, roughly three-quarters of the wealth of most countries is accounted for by human capital.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Then little Rema, one of just two Black children in the school, went to recess. Told he’d be back to school the next day, Rema’s mother was cool, calm and to the point: “And so will she.” “My Through Leading Well, Black women school leaders in Detroit have opportunities to come together to focus on their own wellness.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 25, 2025

Designed to diversify the talent pool and prepare students for careers in cyber risk, incident response, and forensics consulting, the program is housed within the Massry School of Business Forensics, Analytics, Complexity, Energy and Transportation Security (FACETS) Center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Harvard University’s business school, which charges $76,000 in tuition, announced Tuesday that it would award full tuition scholarships to the bottom 10 percent of the class in terms of their ability to pay. The business school will also offer more aid to middle income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

He said it was one of the reasons he went to law school. So much of my career I did my scholarship in the field of election law,” said Alexander, the Arthur J. Kania Dean and Professor of Law at Villanova University. “I He has also been serving as the 2023 president of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

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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. High Graduate Success Rate: Within six months of graduation, 96% of alums are employed or enrolled in graduate programs, with 94% accepted into their top-choice graduate schools.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In many ways, Mason’s College of Public Health represents ASPPH’s [Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health] vision for the future of public health education — one focused on [DEI] and social justice,” says Laura Magaña, PhD, president and CEO of ASPPH. Georgetown University, School of Health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Louis, has been appointed executive director of the school's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2). 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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Deans for Impact

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Growing up in Hawai’i, Valerie Sakimura and many of her peers spoke Hawaiian Pidgin, a local dialect often used at home and heard in everyday conversation – but never at school. But Valerie encountered a surprisingly different experience through her high school English teacher. What is the purpose of schooling?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The goal is to make students, many of whom work while attending school part-time, more likely to complete a credential while putting new workers into the pipeline more quickly. SVMC’s initial idea was to fund scholarships. I put myself through school. This isn’t rocket science.” So why aren’t programs like this one more common?

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Still University of Graduate Health Studies (ATSU) is a founding partner of the Academic Medicine Consortium of Arizona, a group of medical schools that collaborate to identify and nurture students toward academic medicine. Pathway and Mentoring Programs — Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America with Dr. Jacqueline Mattis, the university’s dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Oliver Leadership Scholarship as part of the center's Public Service Leadership Program at Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences–Newark. Johnson & Johnson is proud to honor Lt.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

There, attendees gathered to discuss the use of information technology to advance scholarship and education. 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. Something’s got to give.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

“Being at the largest HBCU in Alabama, I had the experience of training quite a bit of exceptional male teachers who would go on to do great things in the schools,” Strachan said. “I The MALE program was launched in 2019, months before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Strachan pointed out, but said that has not stopped its efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

School: Indiana University Major: Finance and Business Analytics Year: Sophomore Natasha Kim plays midfielder for women’s soccer at Indiana University, where she majors in finance and business analytics. She is a member of the Hutton Honors College, is the recipient of the Dean's Scholarship, and is recognized as a Founders Scholar.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This partnership between our two schools illustrates what Vanderbilt does best: radical collaboration that leads to greater discovery and solutions to global challenges. Vanderbilt University announced the launch of a new interdisciplinary center this week that seeks to unravel the roots and repercussions of health-related inequalities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Dr. Valerie Paley Through a partnership with the City University of New York’s School of Professional Studies (CUNY SPS), New-York Historical has been teaching CUNY students the ins and outs of museum operations via a graduate degree in Museum Studies program. Puras said that SPS’s student population consists of almost 70% students of color.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 3, 2024

For schools that use a formula or rubric to initially determine which applicants might be successful candidates, AI can reduce significant strain on resources by sifting through large data sets. Kenyon College, a small private school with a 29% acceptance rate, uses a holistic application review process.

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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. Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt Divinity School Dr. Emilie Townes has been named the new Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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. Jessica’s scholarship is widely acclaimed and her contributions to the field of education have been significant.

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, several institutions are reaping great enrollment numbers from the high school realm. Creating initiatives that dilate their schools’ access and affordability. Buoyed by a $20 million investment from the state, MCCS targeted high school graduates from 2020 to 2023 who might have been affected by the pandemic.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

News & World Report’s rankings of the best law schools. The movement was initiated by Yale University last Wednesday when the school’s dean announced that the institution will no longer submit its data for review. According to a post from Dean Heather K. “That’s because the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month. The inspiration to form AMHPS came to Sullivan at a National Medical Association meeting when he was developing the medical school at Morehouse College in 1975.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

Watkins was the hospital’s first Black chief resident, the university’s first Black full professor of cardiac surgery, and the first African American graduate from Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine. He served as associate dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. who was a pastor at his family’s church.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2023

Previously, she was senior vice president for research at the University of Arizona; vice president for research and innovation and dean of the graduate school at the University of Oregon; and faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

As a current MBA student at The George Washington University (GW) School of Business, she serves as MBA Association president and is a fellow with the Forté Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to women’s professional development and education. Since 2011, its schools have seen a nearly 10 percent increase in MBA enrollment among women.

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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

At the Georgia Institute of Technology last Friday, deans and chairs from Emory, Clemson, Texas Southern and other schools packed into the Historic Academy of Medicine Theatre to discuss redefining what engagement in the liberal arts means in the 21st century.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Alston was a previous member of the county’s school board, a position he gained by appointment from Florida Gov. Quinnipiac University has found its next leader in Marie Hardin, professor and dean of Pennsylvania State University’s communications college. Hiring Torey Alston – Broward College (Fla.) Elizabeth R.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Programs are then able to compare their rankings with other schools in their division, rather than one in an area with more racial diversity. To accurately account for regional demographics, Bradley-Guidry and her team grouped PA programs using the nine different U.S. census divisions. The study is expected to be published this year.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2024

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. Pomona is a need-blind school, meaning that it does not consider students’ financial contributions when evaluating their applications.

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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. Vasquez Heilig’s scholarly work is extensive, and he is well known for his scholarship regarding racial inequities in the U.S.’s

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Networking, he said, with other scholars has provided him with the “due diligence that I am sending my students into the right spaces for graduate school where they are safe on campus and off.” asked Martínez-Alemán, who is also an associate dean for faculty & academic affairs at Boston College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

Now that college acceptance letters have been sent, the pressure is on students to choose what schools to attend by May 1 st , National Decision Day. This year, schools have been doing everything that they can to entice students—particularly minoritized ones—to commit for next fall. But institutions are under pressure, too.

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