Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

If you find that a challenge, how about the very first Black publisher? How about Broadside Lotus Press, a publishing house, combined Broadside Press (1965) and Lotus Press (1972) to create the largest Black press in history, committed to telling the stories of the Black intelligencia. (Joyces, 1991, p.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Dr. Tonjua Williams "This program isn't just about protecting the community; it's about protecting those who protect us," said Dr. Tonjua Williams, president of St. Petersburg College. "By

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Roompact

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

From my perspective at Roompact, I get to work with many different institutions all across the country. One of the unique perspectives this affords me is the ability to more frequently pick up on trends occurring than others may. In particular, I’ve been hearing that residence life staff have been encountering residents with unique needs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

She said that college leaders have to do a better job at “refuting assumptions about Jewish people” and to “see them in a more accurate and fair way. Such a move, she said, would be a devastating blow to her campus which is racially diverse, with students of color making up about 26 percent of the campus population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab Everyone from editorial boards to trustees to state higher education officers to congressional leaders and pundits has an opinion about what to do. But one thing about it is too easily forgotten: it doesn’t think like, or care much about, “academese.” And right now, that band has a bad reputation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2024

Let us be clear: the accusations against President Gay are a farce, a cynical ploy by those who thrive on division and seek to undermine the progress of novel voices. It is about every woman who aspires to lead and every scholar of color who dares to challenge the status quo.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Kendi announced the laying off of 19 people, in doing so prompting outside questions about the center’s grant management and why it had not completed more research with its funding. We are glad to have this financial inquiry behind us and a financially sustainable model ahead of us.” Dr. Ibram X.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Ruth Bauer White InsideTrack "What UMGC has shared with us is that their student demographics are changing,” said Steve Ast, senior vice president of partner success at InsideTrack. This will ultimately allow us to continue training our team on the InsideTrack model after our contract ends.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The work that we're doing is what allows other students and people who come after us to be here." The webinar allowed Diverse to inquire further about the scholars’ ongoing research and their views on a number of topics relevant to the current education landscape. It's about being in community with the folks who pour into my cup.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

But what about two years later? The future of agriculture is the future of all of us,” continued the deputy secretary. It’s making sure everyone has healthy food, but it’s also about making sure that we make sure agriculture is thriving in the places we’re from – the urban areas as well as the rural communities. Or four years?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

While we no longer make that trek and my youngest finally got it after a while, I still experience similar questions and assumptions about those gas station stops and getting there. I believe that we, well, most of us, that 50 years later, we might be further along. So what is taking us so long? Dr. Robin L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

As we navigate the treacherous waters of 2024, let us honor those we have lost by being mindful of the debilitating structures we are up against. Have a conversation with your body about what you have done to it and apologize if necessary. What about how it makes you feel? Buy or create a journal to write down your reflections.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

During the presentation, Garcia talked about Dr. Robin D. Dr. Keith Curry As I sat in the audience watching and listening to Garcia talk about Freedom Dreaming, I finally found the words for what I have felt inside for as long as I can remember, and I felt the excitement of figuring out that I am a “practitioner of change.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. We gotta stop glorifying the tragedies of Black women’s deaths while they were in service because they were in service to us. Zora Neale Hurston taught us long ago, "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Biden-Harris 2024 campaign has released a new ad about President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ record $7 billion in funding for HBCUs, theGrio reported. The campaign ad – part of the Biden-Harris campaign’s early outreach to Black voters – ends with the tagline, “Billions more for HBCUs, endless possibilities for us.” “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Additionally, 70% of men student-athletes and 59% of women student-athletes said that they believe that their coaches care about their mental well-being. Having tens of thousands of respondents allows us to really dig deep into concerns we see in particular sports or within particular demographic groups.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

Color Us United, a nonprofit that advocates for a “race-blind” America, declared a “historic victory” over DEI efforts at the University of North Carolina’s School of Medicine (UNC). It's clear that UNC will not request DEI statements from job candidates, although it’s not clear how much Color Us United played a role in that decision.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

What the Mellon grant does is it allows us to bring the department to full scale, meaning that we can actually hire up to nine to 12 people in a three-year period," McCune said. The Mellon Foundation allows us to walk, perhaps even run, rather than crawl." McCune, Jr., It just needs to expand.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

The impact of these systemic issues extend beyond the individuals directly affected, seeping into the fabric of the broader society and affecting us all. This narrative should impel us to have a paradigm shift and motivate us to advocate for the redirection of resources towards prevention and not detention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Yet, I do not care to spend my time writing this blog to regurgitate what many of us already know, experience, and live through in academia. bell hooks, Black feminist and scholar, writes about Loving Into Life and Death, states: “Death is among us. We honor their presence by naming the legacies they leave us.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Dr. Heather Shipley “The opportunity to bring world class talent in strategic areas of focus to UTSA will add to our talented faculty ranks and allow us to focus on federal funding opportunities, Ph.D. program growth and discovery translations that benefit our city, state, and nation,” he continued. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

“And they can showcase who those companies are, what kinds of projects they worked out, the skills that they demonstrated, and what those companies actually said and validated about that learner's impact.” And the average age of an NU student is 33, and student ages range from 18 to 70, according to Milliron.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

Our initiative gives students a platform and shared language to have difficult conversations about antisemitism. Everyone who signs the pledge does so after a conversation with our trained student volunteers about antisemitism and how to play a direct role in combating antisemitism at UF and in their own communities.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities , published by Johns Hopkins University Press, provides personal anecdotes from past and present HBCU students and leaders about the critical role that these storied institutions have played throughout history. But the book is not merely an exercise in nostalgia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The political environment we’re in now, it’s pushing back against the ideas of democracy—whose stories get to be told, who gets valued in this country—it’s turning us backward,” said Hughes-Watkins. I think they appreciate when we engage in truth-telling, when we’re honest about the ugly, the painful. This project is a counter to that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 24, 2023

“Every day, policy is being made about us, without us. We take the data from the Black Census and use it to inform a Black agenda that serves as a roadmap for policymakers and politicians on how to best address the needs of Black communities. We launched the Black Census to transform that.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 15, 2024

Quite simply, colleges want to know that you are really, really excited about attending their institution. The sales and marketing division is also very concerned about certain statistics that (supposedly) measure the quality of the college or university. Let’s talk about “yield rate.” There are two reasons.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

To Alexander, the legal profession is ultimately about serving communities and justice. “So I think it’s important for us to be able to reinforce our democracy. We’ve been so divided through our politics, divided through the pandemic that has kept us physically separated. He said it was one of the reasons he went to law school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Gittleman cleverly weaves in stories about how, as a child of East European immigrants who did not read or write English, he would come to learn about this phenomenal enterprise.

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Writing about failure can be difficult, but it also can make for an excellent college essay. So, here’s how the “writing about failure” prompt reads: The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. ” Think about failures or obstacles or How Did This Experience Affect You?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2024

retweeted io@eyeslasho: “The average IQ of USAF pilots is about 120, and the figures I've seen for major airline pilots range from 115 to 130. By contrast, the mean IQ of grads from two of those United Airline HBCU "partners" is about 85 to 90, based on the average SATs at those schools. The SAT correlates reasonably well with IQ.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Located at Morehouse College, the Historically Black College has several professors exploring this subject and has been encouraging deeper conversations about understanding manhood and masculinity. So it’s important for us to invest as many resources as possible.” Wednesday's session featured Dr. Arthur Evans, Jr.,

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Terminalfour

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

How will the latest social media and digital marketing trends impact higher education and shape your strategies in 2021 and beyond?

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 20, 2024

These encounters led to recurring discussions about how we integrate student voices in our teaching and scholarly lives within our respective contexts. English English A02 (Critical Writing about Literature) is a first-year, multi-sectional writing course in the University of Toronto Scarborough’s English Department at.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Many of us woke up this morning certain about what we would eat and assured that breakfast would not be our last nutritious meal of the day. But true transformation and empowerment requires us to go beyond boundaries of academic majors, industrial interests, ages, and genders reflected in our community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We are excited about this new partnership with the University of Michigan-Flint," said LCC President Dr. Steve Robinson. This partnership with UM-Flint allows us to continue to provide our students with the high-quality education they deserve."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Panelists praised what the IRT did for them, discussing how the organization bolstered what they knew about the teaching profession, expanded their professional networks, and helped them understand key educational concepts. When we are in the classroom, when we are teaching children who look like us, our students do better,” she said.

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