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College Completion Rates Edging Upward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jorge Silva-Puras, the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success at Lehman College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), noted that the six-year completion rate at Lehman is around 51%.

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Morehouse Joins Initiative to Bring College Courses to Disadvantaged High Schoolers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s a challenging class that Dr. Kendrick Brown, Morehouse’s provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, describes as the best of what the school has to offer. When you add HBCUs to the mix, you have opportunities to bring in rich historical data that you might not get from other institutional types,” she said.

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AIRC announces 2023 Sir Cyril Taylor recipients

The PIE News

Nine US HEIs will receive up to $10,000 to award scholarships to disadvantaged or underrepresented students from the UK to enrol at their institution during the 2023/24 academic year. The American International Recruitment Council has announced the 2023 recipients of the Sir Cyril Taylor Memorial Scholarship for Study in the US.

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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

Interestingly, the veil that Du Bois wrote about still exists today, especially in the American Academy — the network of colleges, universities, associations, and organizations that provide and support higher education — despite the fact that some of America’s most illustrious educational institutions are headed by Black provosts and presidents.

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How striving for a DEI award keeps one senior diversity officer on track

University Business

For instance, through this questionnaire it became more vivid how the tenure-review process can disadvantage women and faculty of color. But if tenure review fails to properly weight that service, these populations are at a disadvantage.

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Outrage Continues Over University of Florida's Removal of DEI Roles

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ahmed, vice provost for DEI at the University of Vermont. “It She warned that UF’s decision will disadvantage everyone from veterans and students with disabilities to minoritized students.

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Consider faculty labor in student success efforts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Approaching student success without holistic attention to the entire spectrum of faculty labor most seriously disadvantages the very faculty members our institutions say they want to be hiring and supporting in order to produce a more racially diverse and academically outstanding professoriate.

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