Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Sorrell Sorrell said that the grant will launch a campus housing initiative that will eventually be accompanied by a larger mixed-use development that includes student and family housing, retail and restaurant spaces, parks, outdoor meeting areas, and classroom facilities—all designed to serve both the campus and the surrounding community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For many of us whose work or lived experiences connect race, gender, history, or sexuality, within education, exile is less about leaving and more about staying in a space where we know we’re not fully welcome. I’d argue that exile, in this sense, can bring out our best work, and history backs this up.

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The PIE News

MARCH 16, 2023

Colombian student numbers for Australia are now the highest in history, according to new figures in an update from Austrade. Total numbers for Colombia at the end of 2022 came in at 28,437, with the inclusion of enrolments, commencements and year-to-date visa lodgement figures offshore.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

"I have had my eye on the Mecca my entire career, studying its history and witnessing what Howard means to the culture. A unique aspect of the program pairs each fellow with a Howard student, creating mentorship opportunities while advancing research goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2025

In a climate where DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is being vilified, this year's panels didn't hold back. Say the words :Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Inclusion means everyone belongs, he said. Alford, SVP, The Grio. They urged us to stop abbreviating DEI. Diversity is what makes America what it is.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students. The rest is history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2025

At CUNY Law, she notably expanded the Pipeline to Justice program and established the First Impressions Youth Legal Collaborative, which engages students from middle school through college in legal education. We must collectively do more to support those who have been historically excluded from leadership roles," she said.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

To ensure music students gain a more inclusive education, universities are beginning to expand their areas of study. Through its new master’s program in Black sacred music, UA will train students to work in careers linked to gospel music. Walton Foundation. It’s also going to address the needs of affinity groups.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In consideration of this, Adelphi University’s Student Access Office (SAO) has launched a dedicated Event Accessibility webpage to empower university partners to host inclusive events. The Adelphi University class of 2028 breaks boundaries as the first in the school’s history to enroll a majority of students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Founded in 2018 with the recognition that Black womens perspectives have long been marginalized in academia, BWSA was birthed as a necessary space for scholars dedicated to studying Black womens histories, politics, literature, and lived experiences. Jacinta Saffold and the organizations president, Dr. Nneka Dennie enrolled at the W.E.B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students. The rest is history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams was raised Catholic and attended private institutions—he was often the only Black student in his class, or one of the few. He became what he calls “a student for everybody.” “I It’s why, in his late twenties, he chose to volunteer at Georgia State University (GSU), speaking to young college students about his successes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Community Colleges Are Well Positioned Historically, equity and inclusion in higher education have been shaped by various legislation and milestones that improved learner access in America. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

Thus, with our unprecedented longevity, its important for the traditional image of college students, those transitioning from high school and primarily in the second and third decades of life, to evolve. For college students, intergenerational learning is more than interacting with older adults.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

College instructors, in increasing numbers, have begun to think seriously and systematically about how to enhance student learning and engagement, remediate content and skill deficiencies, close achievement gaps, and build upon students’ prior knowledge and skills.

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The PIE News

JUNE 8, 2023

The CEO of NAFSA, Fanta Aw, acknowledged that it takes a “village” to put on the organisation’s conference, as the attendees celebrated an overarching theme of “inspiring an inclusive future”. Once we start school through literature and history, we can appreciate each other’s cultures and countries.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Thank you for all of the outstanding work helping students feel more connected to their institutions and for sharing how your team created and used the great resources. Enjoy the read and enjoy your day, Lindsey Downs, WCET Imagine your students browsing an expensive textbook they are required to purchase for class.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

Mary Ann Villarreal has been appointed vice president in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). She will focus on advancing equity and student success efforts in service to undergraduate populations and academic excellence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

In their study, “ Inside the Black Box ,” researchers discovered that algorithms used to predict student success produced false negatives for 19% of Black and 21% of Latinx students, incorrectly calculating these percentages of students would fail out of college. All the algorithms can see and learn,” said Anahideh.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Black undocumented students] are invisibilized.

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ACPA

JANUARY 30, 2025

Outstanding International Education Initiative This award recognizes programs and other educational initiatives that support international educatio n and the global dimensions of student development. This award recognizes and honors graduate students who have made significant contributions to the international student community.

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University Business

JANUARY 31, 2025

Ohio college students and faculty members are slamming a bill proposed by Republican lawmakers that would ban diversity and inclusion efforts, prevent faculty from striking, set rules around classroom discussion, and imperil scholarships, among other things. Tom Young, R-Washington Twp., Read more at Ohio Capital Journal.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. This new edition of the handbook: Makes equity, justice, inclusion and belonging a key component of peer review.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity & inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. history, gender and race with the law. Eventually, both became Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) leaders. Sherri Charleston studied the intersection of U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 3, 2025

Department of Education has modified its previous directives on race in hiring, scholarships, student programs, and other educational policies. The new guidance shows greater flexibility regarding long-standing efforts to support diverse student populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

There are 31 different BMI programs, but each has the same overall goals: increase the enrollment and matriculation, retention, GPA, and graduation rate of underrepresented students. As a student, [the program] did help. There is institutional commitment to looking at financial support for students unable to pay tuition.

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Deans for Impact

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

All that mattered in that moment was the pure joy that little girl had in knowing that in just two days time, she would once again get to work with Mr. Steven Volpe – a 10th grade history teacher serving as a tutor at the Paulsboro Boys & Girls Club in south New Jersey. This is encouraging to see.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Tim’s Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium , which took two years of advocacy and planning, and draws on several more of research across neurodiversity and art education, took place at the University of the Arts Helsinki , modelling best practices for inclusivity, not just for neurodivergent folx. Universities, watch and learn.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 18, 2024

Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19th, marks a pivotal moment in American history—the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom, years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. This acknowledgment is crucial for fostering understanding, healing, and progress.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? This is critical work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Brandi Waters, senior program manager of AP African American Studies at the College Board, and Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar, professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She is always looking to center the story of Black women in history, particularly to find ways to make those stories resonate with the students of today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. University of Maryland campus, Memorial Chapel. It’s our own small way to ensure that all voices are heard, and all people are respected.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

history makes white children feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish, and psychological distress ,” without any consideration of Black students’ feelings of isolation and unimportance. Clearly, legislators’ denouncement of African American studies is a denouncement of Black people, Black history, and Black culture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

Kimberlé Crenshaw Civil rights leaders have joined UCLA and Columbia University professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, co-founder and president of the African American Policy Forum, in rejecting efforts to suppress Black history within the national narrative. They include: · Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of National Urban League · The Rev.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

The book “complicates our understanding of right-wing backlash as populist, since the narrators within were college students at a time when higher education was inaccessible to most,” writes Shepherd. The inclusion of Ivy League and other institutions throws this dynamic into even further relief.

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