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Report Finds That Affirmative Action Only Led to Incremental Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report is a retrospective analysis of the changing demographics at selective and open-access institutions from 2009 to 2019; researchers ended their analysis in 2019 to account for changing enrollment patterns that resulted, in part, from the COVID-19 pandemic. It comes less than a year after the U.S.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These student-athletes were also interviewed about the support services that they needed. Sabree discovered that huge educational gaps existed in transfer rates for this population at community colleges across the nation (Harper, 2009). Seek out support services. Practice time management. Recognize opportunity.

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Was affirmative action overrated? This study implies it is

University Business

.” The analysis, “Progress Interrupted,” observed the changing enrollment rates of white, Black/African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, American Indian/Alaska Native and Hispanic/Latino students from 2009 to 2019. The post Was affirmative action overrated?

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Crisis Management on Campus

Higher Ed Connects: Leadership

In April of 2009, I was a vice-provost at UT Austin, preparing to head to China with a delegation from the Provost’s office to work on collaborations with Chinese universities. My biggest piece of advice, based on my experience in 2009, is that you cannot be over-prepared. by Terri E.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” Growing the diversity of the faculty is among the institution’s priorities, and CEED’s graduate student programming contributes candidates.