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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. Sabreeā€™s research revealed that community colleges appeared to be failing African American males, in general, and African American male student-athletes, in particular. Seek out support services. Practice time management.

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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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Virginia Techā€™s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.ā€ His dissertation research was on the CEED summer programs. Being present at these conferences helps raise the profile of Virginia Techā€™s graduate programs as well as awareness of CEEDā€™s support services. ā€œI

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

Creative arts (CA-HE), often deemed less valuable than STEM subjects, are particularly threatened ( Puffett 2022 , Redmond 2020 ), evidenced in the closure of departments, and exacerbating the already tense relationship between the CA-HE and HE ( Elkins 2009 ). This is a missed opportunity, given HEā€™s ā€˜omnicrisisā€™ ( Gill 2022 ).