Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. In the face of curriculum and book bans and the devaluing of Black history, it is imperative to amplify and uphold African American history.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2024

I feel like a child whose parents forgot to pick them up at school, and the last teacher on site is asking, “Do you need me to call someone?” The legislative branch has yet to detail a plan to supplement the school funding drying up from pandemic relief programs. The executive branch is straining to keep its promises.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Sean Decatur will be stepping down from his current role at the end of 2022 to become president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in April 2023. Decatur Decatur has been the school’s president for almost a decade, his tenure having begun in 2013. Dr. Sean M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Founded in 2018 with the recognition that Black womens perspectives have long been marginalized in academia, BWSA was birthed as a necessary space for scholars dedicated to studying Black womens histories, politics, literature, and lived experiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

Tess Feldman Southwestern Law School is collaborating with the Los Angeles LGBT Center in launching the Asylum Law Clinic to better equip future lawyers in providing legal support to asylum seekers in the LGBTQIA+ community. Our curriculum emphasizes both the knowledge and compassion needed for impactful legal representation and advocacy."

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Department of Education created its own rumblings by releasing new guidance with rules about any contracted services and a series of questions about companies helping institutions with online learning. Earlier this year, the Department signaled it would hold negotiated rulemaking including “Third-Party Servicers”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Grinnell College is launching a Department of African Diaspora Studies. The department will be led by a senior-level endowed chair who will design the curriculum and major. Black studies is not just about the past or history — it also provides us with so many paths forward toward more equitable community building.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2023

and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019). As Gonzalez completes his graduate studies at Claremont Graduate University in California, he is preparing to defend his dissertation before departing for a faculty position this fall at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 22, 2022

Image: The Department of Education is officially terminating federal recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools after Deputy Secretary of Education Cindy Marten issued a final decision Friday. The department said this is the final decision it will issue regarding ACICS.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Wen Mao will become the Helen and William O’Toole Dean of the Villanova School of Business (VSB), effective Aug. Mao is currently vice dean of the business school. Previously, she has been VSB’s associate dean of faculty and chair of the Department of Economics. Donohue, president of Villanova University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. Dr. Corey D. Michele Gillespie. “He

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He was so successful, in fact, that by the time he graduated from high school, Williams had achieved access to the same country club that barred him due to his race. He got to know Williams while he was an undergraduate at the school. He lined me up with great connectors that guided me to and through graduate school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2023

In doing so, it will become the first two-year school in the state to offer such a degree, GBH News reported. Massasoit will begin offering the two-year program this fall – the goal being to enroll at least 15 students – with courses about Black history, literature, music, education, healthcare, and criminal justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. Even if they were to attend, we do not offer any courses on Kaw language, government, or history.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Graduate school prepared me for a world that didn’t exist. It prepared me to be a very specialized political theorist in a poli sci department of at least a couple dozen people. Instead, I’ve spent most of my career in places where the poli sci department was either one person or two.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say. Those in the department with dissenting views should be able to express them in the same forum, the guidance also says. Departments vs. Individuals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

North Star Promise provides free college tuition to help make education after high school possible for more Minnesota students and families,” is written on the Minnesota Office of Higher Education website. That doesn’t include FDLTCC’s college in the high school program. The basics are very appealing. Dr. Gresham D.

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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). This article was published in our June 2023 issue.

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Helix Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

His tenure at Wilmington was particularly notable, enrolling two of the largest classes in the college’s history, an accomplishment which led to awards from the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, RNL, and others. Elmira also partnered with high schools and visited those schools to increase engagement with students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is gearing up to chart a path forward for public schools amid increasing challenges, and opposition, to the institution. Randi Weingarten AFT represents teachers, school staff, higher education workers, nurses and healthcare professionals, and public employees.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 12, 2023

The University of Phoenix (or at least its name) may soon enter the ash heap of US history--and rise again as a state-run robocollege. With the school's remains are approximately one million people buried alive in an estimated $14-$35B in student loan debt. But it shouldn't--at least not yet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college.

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The PIE News

MARCH 14, 2025

Sapienza University of Rome retains its number one ranking for classics and ancient history, while the University of Amsterdam leads in communication & media studies, and Wageningen University & Research holds the top spot in agriculture & forestry.

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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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HEPI

JANUARY 5, 2023

Recently reappointed as Schools Minister, Nick Gibb has made little secret of his dissatisfaction with the role of universities in training teachers. In 2012 and for several years thereafter, the Department for Education used the allocation of trainee numbers to ‘fix’ what was seen as the over-dominance of universities in teacher education.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 29, 2024

As a recent graduate of Cambridge, where I spent four years, I understand the urge to herald its unique history and methods of teaching. Butterfield, for example, claims that the freewheeling process of allowing a larger proportion of state school students into Cambridge has placed politics ahead of talent.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

South Royalton’s main claim to fame, however, is that it is home to the Green Mountain State’s only law school. Vermont Law School has doled out juris doctor degrees to students from across New England and beyond since 1972. Vermont Law School is no different. even before it added the “G” to its acronym.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 5, 2023

The students are demanding that the school hire three or four full-time professors; restore the Africana Studies Department by next spring; appoint a full-time tenured program director; and allow students to serve as search committee liaisons with voting power for hiring. “We We cannot continue to let this history repeat itself.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

She previously served as executive vice chancellor for academic affairs; dean of the school of social sciences; coordinator for the department of history; coordinator of the Gender and Women’s Studies program; and professor of history at the school. in history from George Mason University; an M.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

“As an anchor in DC’s African American community and site of one of the nation’s leading preservers of African American history, Howard University is well positioned to spearhead the process of preserving Mary Church Terrell’s legacy and the broader legacy of the vibrant African American community that is central to LeDroit Park’s history.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Following his and others’ departures, he said, just one full-time professor will remain in his department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

His mission is to transition the long-time program into a department. Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. “We

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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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University Business

JANUARY 28, 2025

But the reality is that this settlement, if approved, will create a myriad of issues that schools will need to deal with, including, but not limited to: Title IX requires that schools must treat male and female athletes equally. But this remains a lot of work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

He is also a teaching assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ music department, intentionally merging his Hip Hop self with his college advisor self. I couldn't take a class on Hip Hop culture, but that all exists now, thanks to some great work from folks in the music department.” I was always writing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., political science, University of California at Irvine; B.A., Asian American studies, University of California at Irvine; M.A.,

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