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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. Gray began his academic career studying motivation in graduate school at The Ohio State University. To date, Gray has mentored over 100 students through Black and Belonging in Durham Public Schools.

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Impacting Policy and Creating Greater Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Currently a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, Michael Reid, Jr., in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. As an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, Reid was a McNair Scholar. After completing his Ph.D.

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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology Tenured: No Age: 33 Education: B.A., English and psychology, University of Virginia; M.A., child development, Tufts University; and Ph.D., History at UCLA. Mims was working on her master’s degree in child development at Tufts University at the time. “He

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What it Means to Sit at the Intersection of Blackness, Queerness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yolanda Vivian Williams-Goliday Dr. Yolanda Vivian Williams-Goliday’s first priority is to make sure that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a supportive and inclusive space for its LGBTQ+, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary community. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University.

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

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Differences in lived experiences, values, beliefs, histories, identities, and more will influence how individual students experience the learning environment (Lovett, Bridges, DiPietro, Ambrose, & Norman, 2023). Prior to this role, Pohan served as a professor of teacher education at four different institutions.

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Impacting Policy and Creating Greater Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Currently a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, Michael Reid, Jr., in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. As an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, Reid was a McNair Scholar. After completing his Ph.D.

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

Faculty Focus

Differences in lived experiences, values, beliefs, histories, identities, and more will influence how individual students experience the learning environment (Lovett, Bridges, DiPietro, Ambrose, & Norman, 2023). Prior to this role, Pohan served as a professor of teacher education at four different institutions.