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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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Chris V. Rey Appointed President of Barber-Scotia College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I look forward to rolling up my sleeves and working with the board of trustees, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other stakeholders to bring this historic college back to prominence,” Rey said. “We He is also the international president of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., one of the U.S.’s s oldest historically black fraternities. “I

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Calls for Change at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We as a faculty, Black faculty and others, have been fighting the administration to address matters of racial justice, and in a very forceful and progressive manner, for the last 20 years or so in different iterations,” said King in an interview with Diverse. Proportionately, the percentage of Black faculty fell from 4% to 3%.

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Mitchell Hamline School of Law Names New President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But Davidson began her career in higher education in 2004, spending two years teaching at Davidson College. She founded a clinical lab where she supervised students who prepared estate plans for low-income elderly people in the community. She held a clerkship at the D.C. Superior Court in Washington, D.C.,

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Feedback or Feedforward? It’s All About the Timing

The Scholarly Teacher

2004) found that “targeted teaching behaviors were acquired faster and more efficiently when feedback was immediate” (p. 2004), but that also feel manageable to the time constraints and demands many faculty face? 2009), rather than the traditional method of waiting until a task is complete (i.e., deferred feedback).

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. López took on another mentor role as assistant director of UT Austin’s University Outreach Centers in Houston after graduating in 2004 with bachelor’s degrees in ethnic studies (Mexican American studies) and Spanish (Hispanic studies). "My

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Phylicia Rashad Appointed Inaugural Toni Morrison Endowed Chair in Arts and Humanities at Howard University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rashad became the first Black actress to win a Tony Award for best actress in a play in 2004 for playing Lena Younger in a revival of “A Raisin in the Sun.” Rashad has done award-winning work in the performing arts, and has experience in theater, television, film, and fine arts administration.