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Working to Keep Minoritized Students Safe - Dr. Kaleb Briscoe

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I was always advocating for students rights and issues, working with administration, leaders, and university presidents advocating for university students, says Briscoe of her time at ASU. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), a predominately white institution (PWI) in a region with a very low Black population.

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5 tips for college and university presidents to support diversity, equity and inclusion

University Business

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. Look for where the action is and fill in any gaps.

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

Diverse: Issues in 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. It’s not easy to do inclusive excellence work in higher education. Our discipline is hard.

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Uniting in the face of unprecedented challenges

UW Presidential Blog

At the same time, there have been a range of opinions expressed about how we and other universities should be responding to these threats. We are actively responding on several fronts, many of which Provost Serio and I discussed in our April 3 message to the UW community and/or are outlined on the Federal Policy Updates page.

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Rutger’s Eatman to Chair AAC&U Board of Directors, And Other Newly Elected Officers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Villarreal is vice president for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University of Utah, and Eatman is the inaugural dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community and Professor at Rutgers University–Newark. “It James Madison University President Dr. Jonathan R. Alger was elected vice chair of the board.

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International Women’s Day: ¼ of the Top 200 Higher Ed Leaders Worldwide are Women

Insight Into Diversity

institutions in their report and found the national average of women leaders, 30% of presidents and 39% of provosts, to be slightly higher than the global average. These upward trends are born from an attitude of intentional inclusion and the cultivation of a campus environment where all students can thrive.

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President moves: Shake-up in Louisiana moves two leaders. This Virginian leaves the West Coast

University Business

Two University of Louisiana System leaders have changed the state’s dynamic in the past two weeks as they pursue new opportunities within the state’s framework, which has drawn some pushback. Not so long ago, Murray had retired from the presidency at Whitman College (Wash.) and three at Birmingham-Southern College (Ala.)