Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Department of Education Office for Civil Rights against North Central University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The nonprofit Legal Insurrection Foundation announced it has filed a legal complaint with the U.S. North Central University North Central University The federal civil rights complaint — pursuant to the U.S.

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HEPI

JULY 21, 2024

Promotion for academics, especially those on teaching and scholarship (T&S) pathways, is fraught with challenges. Inconsistencies in promotion criteria across departments and supervisors create confusion and unfairness fostering an environment of inequality and resentment.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Effective inclusion involves providing appropriate accommodations and support tailored to the unique needs of each student (Dyer 2022, 1712). Alongside the benefits of online learning come challenges, particularly in ensuring access, engagement, and inclusion for all students.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

. “Howard University’s achievement of R1 status demonstrates our research capacity and reaffirms our deep commitment to tackling societys most pressing questions through cutting-edge scholarship and technological innovation,” Howard President Ben Vinson III, PhD, said in a statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The needs of freshmen are also carefully considered, with INSPIRE (Incoming Student Program for Inclusion, Retention and Excellence) as well as student support programs like EOP (Educational Opportunity Program) and EXCEL, which create strong networks of support. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The evolving landscape of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in higher education is reshaping the role of Chief Diversity Officers (CDOs) (El-Amin, 2022b). By doing so, they can create a more inclusive academic environment that values diverse perspectives and promotes equity in teaching, learning, and scholarship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

This downgrade is not an isolated incident; instead, it is the culmination of destabilizing factors, including funding cuts and the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, which are transforming the environment surrounding U.S. higher education. higher education institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries, Animal, and Veterinary Sciences, University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 36 Education: B.A., At The University of Rhode Island’s (URI) Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, much of Treviño Peña’s scholarship involves listening to and studying people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

These statistics underscore the ongoing challenges in creating truly inclusive pathways to the legal profession," noted Dr. Tiffane Cochran, Vice President of Research at AccessLex Institute. The updated report also reveals changes in scholarship practices across law schools. Department of Education, and U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The latest book to suggest how college faculty might draw upon the science of learning to strengthen their teaching and make their classes more inclusive, equitable, effective, and student-centered is Cathy N. Maker Spaces. Work-based Learning.

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The PIE News

JUNE 1, 2023

Streamlining and prioritising US study visas and creating inclusive and accessible study abroad opportunities are top of the agenda for the State Department in the US. “At the State Department, we are working to expand international education.

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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. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Unlike traditional academic organizations that can be exclusive or rigid in their scope, BWSA is intentionally inclusive, embracing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to the field of Black Womens Studies. When co-founder and treasurer Dr. Jacinta Saffold and the organizations president, Dr. Nneka Dennie enrolled at the W.E.B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

One of the most common mistakes that institutions make in their efforts to retain students is an overemphasis on tuition scholarships. Scholarships without question assist with financial barriers, but they cannot unilaterally sustain a student's journey through higher education. What is the enrollment process?

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Undoubtedly, international education is a challenging policy arena in Canada, which makes strategy development for one federal department a monumental task. With GAC’s mandate to “define, shape and advance Canada’s interests and values in a complex global environment”, such an approach is well within the department’s reach.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 5, 2024

Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) banning of race-conscious admissions last summer, some colleges and universities are considering the legality of certain diversity-focused scholarships. Given SCOTUS’s past rulings, some legal experts argue that diversity scholarships could be the next DEI component on the chopping block.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The Council raises funds and provides scholarships to Latinx students, and, on September 19, as part of NJIT’s kickoff for Hispanic Heritage Month, the Council, along with NJIT president Dr. Teik C. Jones, NJIT chief diversity officer, has led the school’s Office of Inclusive Excellence. Since 2022, Dr. David E.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Faculty members who voted against the new rule have cited a variety of concerns, including those about equity and inclusion and whether a committee composed exclusively of senior professors will sufficiently value emerging areas and modes of scholarship. The university referred questions about the new policy to Wong.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Despite these barriers, undocumented students are finding opportunities to pursue a college education through individual resourcefulness, ambition, targeted scholarships, and more welcoming institutional policies. Add inclusive language to admission materials and other student-facing resources where applicable.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Others targeting scholarship diversity programs The Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action has empowered other nonprofits outside of AAER to target what they deem discriminatory scholarships and fellowships. link] — Robin Vos (@repvos) June 29, 2023 Can lawmakers, firms target scholarships following the ruling?

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

“The Gilman Scholarship will benefit me by expanding my horizon globally and setting me out of my comfort zone,” said Diandre’ Richie, a University of North Carolina junior.  Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad through the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

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UW Presidential Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Here at the UW, we recognize that digital access and inclusion are crucial to a student’s meaningful and rewarding Husky Experience, and to being able to do our best work in a welcoming environment. I also deeply appreciate the outstanding work happening in every unit to increase digital accessibility for our community.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But TIAA calls that number “too low” and urges more primary, secondary, and postsecondary financial training with a focus on diversity and inclusion to ensure the needs of various socioeconomic groups are considered in content and delivery. . Three full-time advisers work with students to develop a personal, multiyear financial plan.

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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., Ramos, jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies, serves as an assistant professor in the Department of History at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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UW Presidential Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These are worthy of celebration throughout the year, but this month represents our collective recognition and acknowledgement that our nation and our society are not only enriched by Indigenous people and culture, but that we share a responsibility to work together to create equity, opportunity and inclusion for the first peoples of this land.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In addition to this project, the college recently hosted its third annual Women’s Global Leadership Conference, entitled “Leading Inclusively: Transformative Change Across the Globe.”. Strategic Plans + Climate Survey = Inclusive Excellence — Ball State University. AmeriCorps Tutors for Youth — Arkansas State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

Image: Last month, “After nearly two years of my resistance,” wrote a University of Houston Downtown professor, his department published an “anti-racist statement” on its website. ” Dagmar Scharold, the Houston Downtown English department chair, deferred comment to a spokeswoman for the university.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Global Law student and Unite Foundation scholarship recipient Lisa reflects on her experiences in higher education opens and discusses why university represents such an important and transformative opportunity for care experienced and estranged students. Students do not need that extra pressure and stress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

While many of the immediate concerns in postsecondary education arenas are centered on admissions policies and scholarship support, the potential damage of eliminating affirmative action extends to employees across higher education and beyond. Evidence suggests that many minoritized students already perceive campus environments as racist.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

students of color and 14% international students, Wooster boasts a vibrant and inclusive campus environment. Sangram Sisodia 77 , The Department of Neurobiology, specializing in Alzheimers disease. It provides students with hands-on experience in their chosen fields. Diverse Community: With 27% U.S. University of Chicago.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). One Black British academic felt “discriminated against for promotion” while white colleagues with fewer high-profile publications or research grants were promoted instead.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

However, it is necessary to recognize the fight against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and affirmative action, which continues to dominate and has taken center stage on the educational landscape. In many departments, it is uncommon to find more than one or two Black faculty or staff member. Combat negative stereotypes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It has shown up in her leadership while she was chair of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, and it shows up throughout her scholarship and teaching at Wayne State University, where she is one of only two Black women in her department to be elevated to full professor. Vassar, affectionately known now as “Dr.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

College of Science Mentoring and Inclusion Collaborative (COSMIC) Clemson University College of Science In COSMIC, enrolled students from eight affinity groups gain a keen sense of belongingness. Throughout the program, students engage with faculty in STEM departments. The Paul T. Tutoring covers learning strategies and core courses.

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