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). Walton Foundation.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 22, 2022

Here’s what happened: last week, Richard Sweet, Vilas-Jartz Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and AHA president, published his monthly column in Perspectives on History , an association publication. The column, titled “ Is History History? also in the name of unity.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Though Gay has not previously held a presidency, she has a long history with Harvard. Bacow, who announced in June that he would step down next year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Colleges and universities in states that have passed legislation prohibiting offices and personnel that provide services in support of diversity, equity, and inclusion will probably still seek to enroll students of color who are athletic phenoms, especially in the high-revenue sports of football and basketball. Dr. William B.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

While Taylor will be working to help the students feel comfortable on campus, he also wants the HUB to provide programming that goes beyond holding cultural events for Hispanic Heritage Month or Black History Month, for instance. ” Taylor said he believes diversity, equity and inclusion are centered around having hope.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational. The college also ran two successful cohorts of the eight-week Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Student Passport Program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. This recognizes that students are diverse learners with differentiated backgrounds that must be accommodated (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A graduate of Morehouse College, Canton earned a master’s degree in Black studies at The Ohio State University and a doctorate in history at Temple University. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person. Two new hires are expected this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Concurrently, in some cases, state legislatures are passing bans or limits on diversity/equity/inclusion programs, racial equity training for faculty and staff, the teaching of Black history, and classroom discussion on topics related to critical race theory. Another dynamic is a new form of segregation emerging as the U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Institutions wary of the battle to unwind the work of equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging would do well to invest in leaders whose work epitomizes its core values. Our newer faculty ranks are at their most diverse in UC history. For example, UC Berkeley’s vice chancellor works with donors to fund student resource centers.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Over the past seven years, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has continuously worked to revamp its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. While we definitely haven’t gotten to perfection, we’re way past checking a box,” says Willette Burnham-Williams, PhD, chief equity officer at MUSC. Willette Burnham-Williams.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

There’s near-infinite possibilities of studies that can be done about ways we close different kinds of equity gaps now that we have a more precise data set.” ” She added that the database will also include how much funding each institution receives from the Department of Education. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There’s variability, and what we’re really trying to achieve here is some equity across all UC campuses.” ” About Equity. “We want to make sure that those in departments that may not be as well funded are just as comfortable living where they go to school. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. His goal is to put students in places where they are excluded or should be included, whether running the Black History programs or creating their own e-courses that are creative expressions of what belonging means to them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

For Dartmouth and Columbia, these are the first women presidents in their history, while Harvard welcomes its first African American president. Robert McCaughey, retired professor of history and Janet H. Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Columbia University named new presidents, each to take office in July.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2023

Lynn Holzman This year for only the second time in the 41-year history of NCAA women’s basketball (the previous time was 2016), the NCAA Divisions II and III National Championships were decided at the Women’s Final Four site. The NCAA’s new constitution has principles on gender equity and diversity, equity and inclusion.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

” Higher education also “must acknowledge and address” higher education’s history of exclusion and its “contemporary implications for how the sector values the work of faculty of color,” then “commit to empowering leaders who do more than talk about these issues. population it serves at current rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While institutions of higher education are now often regarded as being liberal in their outlook and perspective, throughout American history they have, with rare exception, have been supportive of the status quo, despite the abounding presence and impact of racism throughout the society. Dr. William B.

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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. This means seeing Black history and culture represented in the courses they take and the professors who teach them.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

” is largely associated with the Crimson Tide, one of the most successful football programs in NCAA history. Now that she has researched its history, she wants everyone to know. They equate removing it with erasing history and caving to a “woke agenda.” ” The fight song, “Yea Alabama!”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the program has seen a slow uptake, but leaders are optimistic about its future, hopeful and dedicated to building and growing the program at a time when other institutions are cutting back on ethnic and Black studies programs amid pushback against diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Kelman, chair of the Stanford task force and Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies, sees Stanford’s deep dive into its history on admissions as a part of this broader movement. “Everybody is taking a good, hard look at their own history,” he said. Examining the Past. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. In 2021, AERA’s leadership named Dr. Edmund W.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

Naomi Sigg, vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), is steadfast in her commitment to this approach. “We We want students to truly know and understand themselves, because our experiences and history can lead to bias, and bias can influence action. This article was published in our January/February 2024 issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

” So far, students have given him relatively safe answers to his questions, despite a history of racial tensions on campus, but he hopes his peers start to open up. ” “One thing we know for sure is the work of racial equity must include and has included white people,” he said. Old Traditions, New Tools.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In addition, Michele Minter, Princeton’s vice provost for institutional equity and diversity, noted that the university’s approach to DEI is not “top-down,” so each department develops its own initiatives. “Otherwise it just kind of feels like you’re shouting down an empty hallway.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Addressing the need Queensborough Community College (QCC), a two-year institution in the City University of New York system, conducted an equity audit that showed there were retention and graduation disparities for male students overall, with Black and Latinx male students disproportionately impacted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

“It not only contributes to increasing Latine students’ educational and political opportunities, but it also contributes to the advancement of methodological techniques to study contemporary issues of equity in politics. In the current day, threats to the field of education are not few and far between.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Through intentional outreach to applicants, dedicated pathway programs, partnerships, curriculum, and programs specifically built to serve underserved populations, and a focus on regionality and socio-economic histories, UC Davis has become one of the most diverse medical school programs in the nation. Dr. David A.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Dees explained that HR officers must understand the unique histories, stories, and cultures of their institutions to ensure new hires align with organizational values. The challenges around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts present a significant challenge. Human resource leaders are connectors, she said.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

That sentence in his column links to a racist column—and not a type of racism that requires understanding current antiracism discourse or diversity, equity and inclusion or debates over recent definitions of racism. The column advances the argument that Black people are intellectually inferior to whites. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Participants were asked to rate how effectively the KSU-CCLP created a leadership culture centered on the following three values: involvement; embracing varying perspectives; and focusing on student success, equity, and learning. of the history and organization of COD) and a broadened perspective that facilitated communication.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. The mission of the Grad Equity Fellowship Program is to provide to students an opportunity to explore the possibility of going on to a Ph.D. The program offers a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They see ChatGPT writing papers, maniacal zealots indoctrinating young minds with woke, left-wing ideology, or, alternatively, right-wing idealogues banning books and prohibiting the honest teaching of history. I was weighed down by the centuries of history that had shaped my place in America, but I was also determined to make a difference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The academy has a history of producing graduates who are “artificially intelligent” because as a means of supporting the existing social order, imposed limits on academic content and approach have been installed. He currently serves as Distinguished Scholar at the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity in Washington, DC.

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