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Kudos to Black/Diverse Issues for Four Decades of Truth, Insight, Vision, and Integrity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

1994-2004 – Institutional Adjustment and Affirmative Inaction Affirmative action was expected to result in substantially larger numbers of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans as students and faculty members in historically white colleges and universities.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. Classroom That shift in the Point Foundation’s focus led to research, such as the reports with the Williams Institute, and data gathering on the foundation’s applicant pool.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As I was going through my career and figuring out the research that drives me and that I want to do, opportunities came up at the U of A,” she says. Her research is groundbreaking,” says Moses. “It Dr. López’s research, community engagement, and outreach make a profound difference to every community with which she works.”

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Although the AAUP is highly concerned about post-tenure review programs that could lead to faculty members’ termination, it is even more concerned about the replacement of tenured with contingent positions, said the organization’s senior researcher. percent in 2004 to 54.4 Accreditors and DEI At UC-Berkeley, 2.4

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Navigating President Turnover: Higher Ed Leadership Challenges: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 169 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. “Brit” Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Explore causes, DEI, governance issues, and retention solutions. years. There’s also an unprecedented amount of pushback on DEI when diversity and inclusion were once very much a part of higher ed. In Ohio, a very anti-DEI bill was introduced that would restrict what higher education could do on diversity issues.

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Legal Expert Art Coleman Examines the Affirmative Action Ruling

EAB

My name is Tom Cakuls, and I oversee research publications for EAB's Enrollment Services division. Art was also instrumental in the establishment of the College Board's Access and Diversity Collaborative in 2004, which he has helped to lead ever since. I also believe this is a time not for retrenchment on DEI goals but for leadership.

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Looking for Love in 2024

SRHE

Pledges of EDI or DEI during BLM 2020 that have now all but DIED. Research and global bodies waxing lyrical about neurodiversity and creativity, but ignoring practitioners and those with lived experience. Freire adds that if ‘education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either’ (2004).