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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

McMickens, Morris Thomas, and Calvin Hadley There is deep concern about the status of Black men in higher education. A recent report about the enrollment of Black men in postsecondary education indicates that Black men comprise 4.6% Palmer, Larry J. Walker, Tryan L. or a little over 850,000 of the 18.6

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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

W Kim Lee and Dr. Carolyn Stefanco hen the American Council on Education launched its Moving the Needle initiative over a decade ago to raise awareness about gender parity in higher education or lack thereof only 23% of college presidents or chancellors were women. in the majority white college town in the Mountain region.

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HBCU Leaders Unite to Address Threats to Black Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

(Black Leadership Across Campuses) Summit, held on April 3, brought together university presidents, scholars, K-12 administrators, policymakers, and students for a candid three-hour discussion on systemic barriers and emerging threats to educational equity. Ingram described her institution's holistic support strategy. Dr. Roderick L.

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These schools are pioneering AI in student recruitment

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AI is playing a bigger role in higher ed operations despite persisting pockets of skepticism. There may be no greater enthusiasm for the emerging technology than in student enrollment and recruitment. Beginning last fall, Berry College and Knox College deployed CollegeVine’s AI Recruiter , an AI-based admissions assistant.

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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leonard went to Dr. Dave Weatherspoon, vice provost of enrollment and academic strategic planning at MSU, to see if the student’s status could be changed to in-state. Both recruiting and retaining Native students showed up in the report as an area of improvement for MSU. “We Borders crossed our people.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It took him awhile to connect the dots from his passion to higher education. Forging strategic partnerships Williams’s ability to connect HBCU students to graduate programs caught the attention of Emory University, where he would be recruited in 2014 as the director of Diversity, Community and Recruitment.

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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leonard went to Dr. Dave Weatherspoon, vice provost of enrollment and academic strategic planning at MSU, to see if the student’s status could be changed to in-state. Both recruiting and retaining Native students showed up in the report as an area of improvement for MSU. “We Borders crossed our people.