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Howard University Makes History as First HBCU to Achieve Top Research Status

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This includes the highest number of doctorates awarded to Black students at any college or university in America. Palmer, chair and professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the university. Department of Education. Howard reaching R1 status is phenomenal.

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Historian Dr. Jonathan Holloway to Lead Henry Luce Foundation Following Rutgers Presidency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jonathan Holloway has been named the new President and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation, following his five-year presidency at Rutgers University. The Henry Luce Foundation announced on Friday, that Holloway will become its seventh President and CEO in the organization's 89-year history.

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Working to Keep Minoritized Students Safe - Dr. Kaleb Briscoe

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma Age: 38 Education: B.S., Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA., Albany State University; M.S., You have erased history, people, resources, and services.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program. We did some great work.”

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The Seeds of Diversity Beget a President of Harvard

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Emil Guillermo But history has a way of catching up and exposing sins of the past, and then there is no good excuse. Ewart Guinier, a Jamaican American educator, was the founding chairman of the department now known as the Department of African and African American Studies. I took just one class, but I could see the divide.

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

” In addition to Michigan State University’s $8.4 They did not, for example, call for fellow university presidents and boards to discuss or explain their actions in entering into sports gambling contracts. Apart from that important exception, the silence of other university presidents is deafening.

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Report: Racial and Gender Hiring Practices in College Athletics is Concerning

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Notably, HBCU athletic departments have high percentages of both ethnic minorities and women. The report examines personnel data – from sources such as the NCAA Demographics Database – concerning university presidents, athletics directors, coaches, administrative staff, and faculty athletics representatives for college sports.

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