Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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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University Business

MAY 15, 2024

More from UB: CU Boulder Chancellor DiStefano: Lessons learned from 50 years in higher ed I often view our approach to inclusive education to the genetics and biodiversity of an ecosystem: A campus flourishes when it is composed of students from different backgrounds, cultures and abilities. Inclusive education is also deeply personal for me.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

Katherine Banks said in a resignation letter she would retire immediately as president, because “negative press has become a distraction” at the nearly 70,000-student campus in College Station.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This is DMU’s first collaboration with a historically Black university, reinforcing its commitment to prepare compassionate, highly skilled professionals while expanding access to underrepresented groups in health sciences. Walker Franklin, PhD., We are paving the way to a brighter future for all students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2024

As an educator and university president, I have seen firsthand the ADA’s transformative impact on our higher education systems — and how far we still must go before higher education is truly accessible and inclusive of learners from all backgrounds. Lisa Marsh Ryerson The number of students with disabilities at U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

During that time, she was a champion for civil rights, a fierce proponent of advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession, and a mentor to other attorneys from diverse backgrounds. JoAnne Epps was a powerful force and constant ambassador for Temple University for nearly four decades,” Pennsylvania Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2024

Microsoft, and Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth. It is aimed at cultivating educational exchanges in collaboration with the Government of Kenya, the U.S., The announcement was made during a special Kenyan state visit to Atlanta planned to address investments for a shared future through higher education.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The University of Michigan Board of Regents avoided a vote to defund its DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) program during its final meeting of the year, despite mounting scrutiny and campus protests. Since 2016, the university has reportedly allocated $250 million to DEI initiatives, drawing both praise and criticism.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

College of Saint Mary (CSM) will be renaming one of its dormitory buildings in honor of University President Dr. Maryanne Stevens, who is retiring Jun. Stevens is CSM’s longest-serving president, having been in the role for more than 25 years. 30, WOWT reported.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

University of Utah is showcasing the value of academic diversity after the state’s passing of HB 261 , which “prohibits an institution of higher education from establishing or maintaining an office… [that] is referred to or named diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 8, 2024

President of WPG, Andrea Silbert, said to Forbes, “This speaks to an increased awareness of the importance of having academic leadership that represents the diversity of the student population it serves… it’s high time we’re starting to see more gender and racial diversity reflected in the highest roles in academia.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

Soon after she was hired for the school’s journalism department, McElroy learned of internal pushback – now discovered to be at least six board of regents members – over her previous work to improve newsroom diversity and inclusion, said McElroy, a former New York Times editor. She rejected the offer.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

“With this Mellon-supported initiative, we aim to have a major impact on the key work of Wayne State: research, teaching, community engagement, and student success,” Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson says in a statement. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Jack Thomas In my own journey, leading a campus with such diverse student representation has reinforced the importance of embracing diversity and fostering a culture of inclusivity. The increased focus on diversity and inclusion was both a challenge and an opportunity. My faith has been a source of strength throughout my career.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

Our students are poised to become the future leaders of various fields, including industry, business, science, and law,” said Vorhees University President Dr. Ronnie Hopkins. “It At the heart of this approach is the emphasis on creating inclusive and diverse spaces,” said Randolph. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Supreme Court heard arguments regarding race-conscious admissions policies, higher education stakeholders gathered to discuss the barriers keeping more women and people of color from becoming college and university presidents. According to 2021 data, 60% of the University of California (UC) chancellors are white.

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University Business

MAY 16, 2023

As the Spring semester ends, administration across Florida’s public colleges and universities will have to work quickly to descale most programs or resources related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Moreover, the bill places higher accountability on university presidents to fire faculty. On Monday, Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

The State University System of Florida Board of Governors decision to eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the University of Florida is the latest example. Finally, inherent in academic acumen is a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

Boasting five editors and 18 authors, this text offers a wide degree of perspectives from early career professionals to more advanced executive-level leaders such as a former university president. As an academic book, each chapter opens with an abstract and ends with discussion and reflection questions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Dozens of panel and plenary sessions were offered at this year’s meeting of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) including a panel titled, “Historic Role of University Presidents in Shaping Racial Policies and Practice,” and keynotes by David Hogg and Jaclyn Corin, co-founders of the March for Our Lives.

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

More from UB: 5 tips for college and university presidents to support diversity, equity and inclusion Oral Roberts University leveraging AI for the campus network ORU has experienced 15 years of consecutive enrollment growth, fueled by the visionary leadership of the President, Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey Lincoln University In an email sent on the day of her death , Candia-Bailey, who served as vice president of student affairs at Lincoln University in Missouri, a historically Black university, accused Dr. John Moseley, the university's president, of harassment and bullying. “You

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It’s hardly a new observation that, in corporatespeak, colleges and universities are ailing companies. As Temple University president Jason Wingard writes , our attrition rates would send a corporate entity into meltdown. If your garden yields weeds, you don’t add new flowers and fertilizer. What is our soil lacking?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Colleges and universities have also been at the center of one of the most critical issues of our day: the advancement of diversity, equity and inclusion. As diversity per se has increased, so has the need for colleges to address the complexity of true inclusion—an issue that faces all institutions today.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

While rich in insight, the scholarship on Black faculty and staff retention has often been segregated from public discussions that university presidents, futurists, and higher education researchers are having about institutional transformation in the Academy.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 16, 2024

Discussions have remained ongoing, as university president Ed Seidel, PhD, organized a working group made up of staff senate, faculty senate, deans, and administrators to “provide suggestions … on how essential DEI programs, activities, and functions could be organized and funded within the university to make them most effective.”

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EAB

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From DEI initiatives to post-COVID outcomes, explore EAB’s top content of 2022 below: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice for Higher Ed. Our DEIJ Higher Ed Resource Center is a combination of best-practice DEI guidance and strategies promoting inclusive culture on campus. Discover new methods you can implement on campus now.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

The Board of Visitors affirmed the importance of various diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the University in the full Board meeting Friday from 1:45 p.m. University President Jim Ryan opened the discussion with an overview of the history and importance of diversity, equity and inclusion at the University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2024

Schexnider — a retired university president — has given us much to reflect upon in his newly published memoir titled, Confessions of a Black Academic (McFarland & Company, Inc.). At a time when higher education is facing enormous challenges, including attracting and retaining good leaders, Dr. Alvin J.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 6, 2023

A Temporary Swing of the Pendulum on a Trajectory Toward Inclusive Excellence and Achievement In Students for Fair Admissions Inc. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions Inc v. the University of North Carolina (SFFA) , the U.S. It would take an act of Congress for that. Shirley J.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A 2021 survey found that 84 percent of university presidents believe that issues surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion should be addressed. Higher-education leaders are seeking better representation and support for diverse student populations.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Topics covered on her podcast include excellence in teaching, instructional design, open education, diversity and inclusion, productivity, creativity in teaching, educational technology, and blended learning. 4 Lessons from University Presidents on Crisis Thinking and Resilient Leadership Nathan D. Grawe Nathan D.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The task force was commissioned by campus leaders in January to explore claims made in an online newsletter , written by Charles Petersen, a postdoctoral fellow in history at Cornell University who did archival research at Stanford as a graduate student for his dissertation. “Today, we have a very vibrant Jewish community on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

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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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2023

President turnover is a major problem for higher ed leadership, with the average tenure of leaders serving in this capacity at one institution declining sharply from 10 years to a shocking 3.7 There’s also an unprecedented amount of pushback on DEI when diversity and inclusion were once very much a part of higher ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2024

Schexnider — a retired university president — has given us much to reflect upon in his newly published memoir titled, Confessions of a Black Academic (McFarland & Company, Inc.). At a time when higher education is facing enormous challenges, including attracting and retaining good leaders, Dr. Alvin J.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

” A War on ‘Many Fronts’ The controversial pledge by campus leaders comes at a time when DeSantis is waging an unsubtle war against what he sees as a liberal agenda at the state’s colleges and universities. Presidents likely feel like “you either fall in line or you get run over.”

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