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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

there were protests on campus. Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person.

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Not Your Traditional Student: Changing Demographics on Campus

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

Edward’s University in Austin, Texas in the fall of 2003 I was a 37-year-old single mother, who was also working full-time. Retired New College professor Danney Ursery said, “The better students seem to always get to know the faculty, and not just know them as scholars, but as human-beings.”. When I enrolled at St.