Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Over the past seven years, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has continuously worked to revamp its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. While we definitely haven’t gotten to perfection, we’re way past checking a box,” says Willette Burnham-Williams, PhD, chief equity officer at MUSC.

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Helix Education

OCTOBER 13, 2022

After reviewing these definitions, we asked the audience to provide examples. However, they also expressed difficulty in finding or understanding some of the most critical pieces of information, such as financial aid, scholarships, the admissions process, financing options, and the difference between the sticker price and the actual cost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I definitely didn’t think I was going to be a law professor, but I always wanted to be a teacher,” she says. In this role, she has been able to champion equity-minded solutions to some of the nation’s most vexing challenges. “I grew up in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, and we had Johnnie Cochran on T.V.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Image: Even as conservative lawmakers have ratcheted up attacks on DEI—diversity, equity and inclusion—in higher education, another acronym has begun to attract their attention: ESG. Many endowments invest in private equity and riskier assets and it would be quite unfair to argue that applying an ESG lens adds more risk.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

That sentence in his column links to a racist column—and not a type of racism that requires understanding current antiracism discourse or diversity, equity and inclusion or debates over recent definitions of racism. The column advances the argument that Black people are intellectually inferior to whites. ” he wrote.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The draft document urges credit for faculty members supporting the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion mission, or who are otherwise doing community-engaged or interdisciplinary work; this presumably addresses long-standing concerns across academe that such efforts go unrecognized in traditional faculty reward structures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Those dollars, coupled with a $12 million donation in December 2020 from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, were allocated into need-based scholarships, which Oubré said “resulted in some of the best retention rates we’ve ever had, particularly in demographic groups that are the most vulnerable, like African American men.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. We have excellent outcomes on that; we have great support from our legislature that provides a dual credit scholarship that removes financial barriers,” says Ellis. “We

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 8, 2024

The State Bar of Wisconsin agreed to change the definition of ‘diversity’ in its language for a program designated for underrepresented law students following a lawsuit by a conservative-backed organization. The State Bar said the program would continue unchanged under the settlement, however, WILL also claimed a victory in a statement.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What I find especially striking in his writing is his refusal to subordinate scholarship to ideology or partisan politics. In his view, this isn’t just a matter of social justice or equity. It’s ultimately about scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and public trust in expertise and science. writ large.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

OCTOBER 17, 2023

How to Attract and Retain a Diverse Student Population The definition of the modern learner has shifted: The nontraditional student is the new traditional student. Financial assistance and scholarships. For instance, universities may offer emergency funds, such as scholarships, to help students if a roadblock occurs.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The MasterCard Foundation—whose work is focused on empowering youth in Africa and Canada’s Indigenous populations— began funding scholarships for CMU-Africa in 2016 and has been involved with the institution ever since. “CMU is definitely interested in having a global impact; this is part of our global strategy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Dr. Mark Henderson Henderson says the measure definitely influenced the enrollment of “historically excluded groups.” We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.” Those students’ enrollments went way down, across the system. Dr. David A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2024

Haywood Sixty percent of the parents surveyed were concerned about college cost, 40% about scholarships and 39% about the amount of debt. Concerns over student safety were higher for families of color with 58% of Black parents including a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as part of student safety. Dr. Davida L.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Sharon Perry Fantini , Vice Provost for Equity Access and Opportunity at Iowa State University. • Outside support takes political will to decide that this is a priority for equity and competitiveness. Panelists included: • Tim Renick , Executive Director, National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Since then, I have focused my scholarship on college and career readiness, and STEM for Black males. Attempts to develop an accurate definition and measure of "intelligence" have been fraught with difficulty and controversy. Within the questions lie recommendations for equity-based and culturally responsive assessments.

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HEPI

AUGUST 28, 2024

One widely used definition of staff-student partnership research is : a collaborative, reciprocal process through which all participants have the opportunity to contribute equally, although not necessarily in the same ways, to curricular or pedagogical conceptualization, decision making, implementation, investigation, or analysis.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 28, 2025

Conway (04:05) So I’ll start and of course we’ll pepper you with our own expressions of definition and concept and foundational principles. And the book series implements the design thinking methodology, but it’s from that definition of institutional anti-racism where we’ve acknowledged that there is pain, right?

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Amid the current political climate and concern for the safety of the LGBTQ+ community, experts are calling on colleges and universities to intensify their student services and fortify equity policies. Increase the staffing in LGBTQ+ centers (yes, they definitely need more staff).

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We're committed to educational equity and we focus on students from 11th grade all the way through to college graduation. JW: Yeah, I can definitely do that. So we've talked a little bit about how the communication process isn't necessarily perfect and there's definitely room for improvement. laughter] 0:14:51.3 JS: Yes, yes.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

Kathryn has extensive experience writing, editing, and directing content development for publications focused on topics such as diversity and equity in postsecondary education and the workforce, higher education’s civic mission, and the value of education in contemporary contexts. Drumm McNaughton 11:23 Well, that makes sense.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As Art Coleman, a leading expert on laws governing affirmative action in higher education has argued , “you can't just say that the Court’s ruling has nothing to do with financial aid and scholarships.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 1, 2021

Jimmy Jung: Definitely will do, Jarrett. Something as simple as scholarship offer on the website is technically financial aid leveraging because you’re trying to drive some type of student behavior. Based on that definition, I see how you get there. Spent the last 20 years working in higher education. Jarrett Smith: Right.

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

JA: Yeah, your program is definitely unique from many programs in those respects. Definitely, if you'd like to have your program, if you're not in there, you would like to be in there, please reach out to me. I always think that having scholarships is really a good component for these applicants and students. KW: Absolutely.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Even though we have no expertise in any of these subjects” [00:18:33] Drumm McNaughton: You know, one of the comments that I sawin your study was they were terminating programs that don’t fit in their definition of classic liberal arts model. gender studies being one of them. [00:18:47]

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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?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Day, the Centennial Conference announced its creation of a three-year strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plan, uniting the conference’s 11 private, Division III institutions in a shared mission to make their athletics programs a place where all students, particularly those in marginalized populations, feel they belong. “At

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But I definitely think we’re coming back to it. How do we create a foundation for every single staff member to be thinking about equity, inclusion, diversity, accessibility in the work that we do? Q: Do you think it’s important right now to view humanities as adjacent to other fields of research?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It was definitely my right, as a parent, to bring my children into contact and commiseration with the exposures and experiences outlined. But was it definitely my right to censor their education on their supposed behalf? Is that a parental “right”?

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UW Presidential Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Questions have also been raised about federal policy changes related to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. We have and will continue to provide information to all academic and administrative leaders, and the entire UW community as necessary, when there is more definitive information to share, including from our states leaders.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

E.g., provide context for why information is relevant, provide definitions verbally before presenting students with visually sensitive information. Schiffer also works at Kansas State’s Teaching and Learning Center with Don Saucier and Noah Renken to promote teaching excellence and contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning.  

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

E.g., provide context for why information is relevant, provide definitions verbally before presenting students with visually sensitive information. Schiffer also works at Kansas State’s Teaching and Learning Center with Don Saucier and Noah Renken to promote teaching excellence and contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning.  

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

” Aric Agmon, a neuroscience professor who said he’s been with WVU for over 25 years, said during Wednesday’s meeting, “What we have in front of us is an attractive package, beautifully wrapped in verbiage about social justice, equity and transparency.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

First of all, we have a foundation in racial equity. We don’t offer small scholarships or anything like that. Courtney Brown 10:15 There’s definitely a narrative out there in the media that people don’t value higher education or their credentials are not leading them anywhere. We want to protect the student.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

They call them scholarships, but they’re simply discounts. [00:39:49] Because primarily they have been owned by private equity and private equity owners have a timeline for the funds that they use to acquire, and that is that they need to cash out the funds in anywhere between five and eight years.

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