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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It took place in 1984 at a higher education conference at MIT, shortly after they had decided to confront the shortcomings in both the journalistic and academic communities by launching a new publication, Black Issues In Higher Education. My first encounter with Bill Cox and Frank Matthews was quite memorable.

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LEAD Fund Mourns Passing of DEI Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Edna Chun, vice chair of the LEAD Fund, a national not-for-profit organization founded in 2014 and styled as a “Think and Do Tank.” Metzler was at the forefront in the movement to forge a corporate and higher education workforce reflecting the diversity of skills, talents, and ideas, said LEAD Fund President and CEO Shirley J.

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Florida Atlantic, UC Merced Earn Award for Institutional Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The award for institutional transformation was established in 2014. It recognizes institutions that responded to higher education challenges in innovative and creative ways and achieved dramatic changes in a relatively brief period. “As As the first U.S.

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Transfer Enrollments Increased Fall 2023

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That’s according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit studying data from a majority of postsecondary institutions in the U.S. Doug Shapiro, executive research director at the Clearinghouse, said the data is indicative of pandemic recovery. In fall of 2023, 5.3%

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Chicano Activist, Journalist and Educator Dr. Roberto Rodriguez, Dies at 69

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Roberto 'Cintli' Rodriguez – award-winning Chicano activist, writer, and educator – died Monday, The Tucson Sentinel reported. Dr. Roberto Rodriguez Rodriguez, who was once a staff writer for Black Issues In Higher Education and later Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, died of heart failure in Teotihuacan, Mexico.

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Welsh universities face 1,000 jobs being lost as EU research funding ends

The Guardian Higher Education

Since 2014 Welsh universities have received about £370m in research projects from EU structural funds but, after the UK’s withdrawal, its support for 60 ongoing projects will end this year. Continue reading.

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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

Introduction For over a decade, Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, or simply Students as Partners (SaP), has gained popularity as a high-impact practice in higher education. A conceptual model illustrating four facets of partnership learning communities that exist in SaP (Healey et al.,

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