Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The organizations were formed under a new law that recognizes unions if more than half the members sign authorization cards saying they’d like to join. The faculties at the two schools are the first Maryland community college faculties to organize since the 2021 passage of a collective bargaining bill.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cage The Doctorate of Education in Leadership Studies would be the first doctoral degree conferred at the historically Black university. This is truly a historic moment in the 133-year history of our university,” said WVSU President Ericke S. Today, we can proudly say that we are now a doctoral degree granting, land-grant university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Like so many other scholarly associations founded in the United States, African Americans and other minorities remained invisible within the leadership ranks for years. I worked hard to transform the organization because it was pretty lily white,” he says. She will lead the organization in 2024-2025.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2024

Fundamentally, the police are responsible for understanding the culture, history, and issues affecting the communities they serve. Cultural competence is attained when an individual or organization effectively delivers culturally competent services to community members (Cross et al., police officers. Dr. Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

They point to the grow number of states who have passed legislation —most notably Texas and Florida—that make it more difficult to teach about Black history for example. She said that the history of school vouchers and charters, which has since been codified in state charters, is the lingering resistance to the historic 1954 U.S.

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ACPA

MARCH 18, 2024

commitment to excellence and encourage all citizens to congratulate the organization on its many Dated this 18th day of March, 2024. commitment to excellence and encourage all citizens to congratulate the organization on its many Dated this 18th day of March, 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

The donation supports educational initiatives at historically Black colleges and universities that promote unity and strengthen partnerships between Black and Jewish organizations, students, and leadership to combat all forms of hate. “Mr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

history, and still play, in producing leaders who’ve added immeasurably to the quality of American life in all spheres — including but not limited to economic, political, social, educational, and religious among others. At a recent gathering of 20,000 AKA members in Dallas , Harris proclaimed, “We know when we organize, mountains move.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Justin Jones of Nashville; Nashville lunch counter sit-in organizer and Freedom Rider Dr. Bernard Lafayette; professor of African American and public history at Tennessee State University, Dr. Learotha Williams; anti-racist writer and educator Tim Wise; and Tennessee youth organizer, Adrianne Gott.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

Jabani Bennett is an interdisciplinary visual artist, yoga instructor, community-engaged educator, leadership consultant, dancer, and mama. She is also the first Black and openly queer director in the University of Louisville Women’s Center’s 30-year history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

The long-standing collaboration between LSAC and AALS and the impressive histories and strengths of both organizations will ensure a smooth transition in July,” she continued. “In Kania Dean of the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., Ramos, jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies, serves as an assistant professor in the Department of History at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This strategic partnership signifies a crucial step forward in the GEM field, combining the capabilities of both organizations to better support the graduate education community. Beyond that, our hope is to deliver GEM-specific research, increased thought leadership and expanded professional development opportunities to our NAGAP members.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Throughout this process, I have learned so much about Texas Southern University, and I am honored to join this esteemed institution with such a rich history,” said Crawford. “I Crawford III was selected as the sole finalist for president of Texas Southern University. Crawford retired after 30 years with the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex Red Corn Title: Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Kansas State University College of Education. The history of Native education in the United States is fraught with dispossession. In these programs, they don’t learn about their native language or tribal history. Age: 39 Education: B.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

When I was here as a student, there was a structure for student-led organizations or student-run opportunities for the development of my Hip Hop identity and spoken word identity, but there wasn't really that curricular environment,” he said. “I in educational leadership and cultural foundations from UNC Greensboro.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The careers that can come from the certificate and degree programs at these two institutions vary from positions in civic leadership, community organizations and human services, to the continuation of study at a four-year college. The Social Justice Advocacy option and certificate really ‘live’ both of these priorities.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The program is headed by two organizations housed within Marquette’s Center for Urban Research, Teaching, & Outreach (CURTO). The courses span various fields – including criminology, social welfare and justice, and history – and touch on topics such as mass incarceration, surveillance, poetry, and the psychology of adolescent development.

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Today's Learner

JUNE 18, 2024

Observed on June 19, Juneteenth marks a significant moment in American history—the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in Texas in 1865. Colleges, like Wayne State University , organize art exhibitions that feature thought-provoking works by African American artists to explore African American culture, history and experiences.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

We want students to truly know and understand themselves, because our experiences and history can lead to bias, and bias can influence action. Sigg notes that the link with PNAO originated when a student in one of her honors courses on Asian American history revealed a familial connection.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

This abrupt closure of a Philadelphia Arts educational institution summons a complex history that haunts the art world at the center of fine arts, foundations, and historically Black colleges and universities. Peterson is founder of Hip Hop Scholars, an organization devoted to developing the educational potential of Hip Hop.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

TCUs are unique in that their founding principle is to serve indigenous people and their nations, connecting their history to their future, and empowering a new generation of learners with the skills to uplift their communities. The distinctive cultural focus of TCUs is now paired with the academic rigor of a Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Dr. Yolanda Pierce “During the search process, Yolanda Pierce stood out for her outstanding national leadership at the intersection of religion and public life,” said Dr. C. Yolanda Pierce will become dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, effective Jul. 1, pending board approval.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

In other words, Affirmative Action should have been a beginning policy step, along with lots of educational practice, for organizations to move towards treating everyone equitably across racial categories. There are too many clear indications that in America, individuals, organizations, institutions, etc.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Center for Nonviolent Social Change, a nonprofit organization founded by King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, as a living memorial to King’s philosophies and dedication to progress. The idea here is to engage the Morehouse community and the community beyond our borders, to engage with history as well as contemporary issues,” said Dr. Vicki L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Organizers with the Freedom to Learn (F2L) network and the Right to Learn (R2L) coalition are planning a rally May 3 in Washington, D.C. Then, organizers risked their lives in opposition to Jim Crow and segregation. The annual Freedom to Learn DC Rally convenes at the Library of Congress, and participants will march to the U.

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University Business

AUGUST 5, 2024

Alumni, trusted donors and friends of the college have placed so much confidence in his leadership that the Pennsylvania-based liberal arts college is coming off a record-breaking $77 million year of fundraising. “We have the most diverse student body in Allegheny’s history,” Cole says.

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

These latest courses cover the skills your employees need to meet the demands of your organizations’ digital transformation goals. For the first time in human history, individuals and organizations can manage and trade their assets digitally peer to peer. Johns Hopkins University | The Creative Leader.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

LaVar Charleston studied public relations, marketing, educational leadership and policy analysis. history, gender and race with the law. Together, the two work to make organizational, leadership, and cultural changes that transform higher education into a welcoming space for marginalized populations.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 1, 2024

This initiative not only empowers students by giving them a voice and leadership opportunities but also serves as a bridge between the student body and university administration, enhancing communication and mutual understanding. Participants enjoy opportunities for student leadership and professional development.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

The pair developed JUMP-Start, Journey for Underrepresented Students in Medicine Program, a free, student-organized and executed conference for undergraduates from marginalized groups who have an interest in attending medical school but may not have access to the necessary resources to succeed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Racquel Oden is the first woman in Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s 37-year history to assume the role of Board Chair, announced the organization, which was founded in 1987 by Dr. N. Joyce Payne as a bastion of support for Black students seeking higher education. Racquel Oden Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Inc.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Adaptation demands that organizations and institutions overcome knee-jerk fears and instead welcome evolution as their durable path to success. However, if organizations do make the courageous move and adapt, they must be prepared for a change-making strategy. If they don’t, the future falters. The truth is more nuanced.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month.

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