Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation is a compelling book about leadership, service, and the importance of mentorship/sponsorship within the academy. As I like to quip: If you have seen one Black woman, you haven’t seen us all.” The book is edited by Drs. Stephanie Y.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

But many educators at the annual meeting expressed worries about the political climate that has made it more difficult to encourage college students to consider entering the teaching profession. Now, we’re not just polarized about policy but about each other,” she said. “Now, Supreme Court case that desegrated public schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

The donation supports educational initiatives at historically Black colleges and universities that promote unity and strengthen partnerships between Black and Jewish organizations, students, and leadership to combat all forms of hate. “Mr. Lomax, president and CEO, UNCF.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

A&T to see how its College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences is presently using federal agency funds to advance programs, research, and scholarships. Under Secretary Tom Vilsack’s leadership, USDA is working to create new career opportunities for the next generation of farmers, foresters, researchers, and entrepreneurs at N.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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

APRIL 16, 2024

Racial and gender inequities still plague the field of educational measurement, from professional rank to salary, across academia, industry, and leadership roles. Rodriguez said he hopes to learn more about these written responses, particularly as they relate to leadership positions both in academia and the industry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The mix of baseless attacks on her leadership, integrity, and qualifications, combined with labeling her as an affirmative action hire signaled the beginning of the end. This moment will reside within Harvard’s institutional history and the history of the US as a reminder of Black women’s disposability and erasure. It is a loss.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Jessica Hicklin The organization seeks to support prison education programs that promote perspectives and leadership of those who have experienced the prison system and that help out overlooked populations and regions. Postsecondary educational programs in prisons have been shown to be beneficial to families and communities. “The

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

NEW YORK On the last day of the Student Leadership Network’s (SLN) Whole Girl Education National Conference: Closing the Gap, CEO Yolonda Marshall reminded attendees why they must continue to elevate and educate young women and gender expansive students: because the political and societal climate is dire. They partner with us.

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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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Dr. Laura Pasquini

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As coaches, we want to offer a FREE, 1-time coaching session for leaders who want a thinking partner to discuss their leadership development. This might be to deal with a specific issue you have as a manager, identify an area of growth for supervision, or just get some perspective on your own leadership practice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As I listened to their wide-ranging conversation, about people they knew, or had known, and projects they worked on together, I was taken by the longevity of their connection to each other. When I look back, there are three powerful ideas he left with us. We can’t do anything alone. He honored human beings.

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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. The pressures of leadership as a Black woman are daunting enough without adding a lack of full disclosure when taking on positions such as chairs, deans, and executive presidencies.

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MARCH 28, 2024

On this January day, Curry — who grew up just a short distance from the college — greets the groundworkers and buttonholes administrative staff about the latest developments taking place across campus. He’s a real-life Equity Avenger, grinding 24/7 against injustice and setting an example for us all,” she says.

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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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MARCH 11, 2024

They don’t really care about diversity. Dr. Kelly Slay studied Black students’ decisions about whether or not to apply and enroll at the University of Michigan after Proposal 2, which also banned affirmative action. These issues are not just about race. It’s not worth it for me to apply.”

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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. As a beloved member of the Temple faculty for more than three decades, Epps spent more than half of that time in various leadership roles. Today, some may attribute indifference to loss to the pandemic and its countless death toll. Dr. Crystal A.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It is no secret that women scholars of color die earlier in academia and are less likely to be in leadership positions in upper administration in higher education institutions. 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. We must grieve.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

West Virginia’s Higher Education Policy Commission announced the change during an emergency meeting about the school’s financial issues, such as owing the city of Philippi $775,000 in utility debts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

At least some of the enrollment loss is due to misinformation and misconceptions about the relationship between employment and educational attainment. Enrollment loss could affect the economic viability of some colleges and universities; it also raises concerns about societal impact, national security, and competitiveness. attend them.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

identify as Latino, only about 7% of physicians and 9% of health care practitioners are Latino, according to the Pew Research Center. “In This is the time for us to come together and support our faculty so that we can work to increase representation in the future.” . Although approximately 20% of people in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

“This commemoration holds a lot of value for us at the college. It helps us to think about and rededicate ourselves to our mission, which is to develop men of disciplined minds who will lead lives of leadership and service,” said Crawford. “I Morehouse students and others across the U.S. Dr. Glenell M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

Dr. Parwinder Grewal Grewal’s departure comes after less than a year in the leadership role. We appreciate you spending the time with us and working so hard.” Vermont State University (VTSU) President Parwinder Grewal has resigned. The release hinted at disagreement between Grewal and the board.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

“Sometimes it still surprises me when I think about the fact that we’re actually together,” said LaVar Charleston. LaVar Charleston studied public relations, marketing, educational leadership and policy analysis. We’re both nuts about organizational efficiency, excellence, and change. history, gender and race with the law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

There’s something palpably radical about the ways she calls on us to act in love,” she continued. But institutions can’t love us back.” Dr. Felecia Commodore is an associate professor in the department of educational foundations and leadership at Old Dominion University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“We're very proud that, given the fact that this was an institution that in five years was downgraded five times by rating agencies, an institution that just 20 months ago had declared fiscal exigency facing a $20+ million forecasted operating shortfall, our rating agencies has upgraded us to a stable outlook,” Acebo told Diverse.

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Credo Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Narketta Sparkman-Key is Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Global Affairs and Professor of Learning, Technology & Leadership Education at James Madison University. Montague, and Dr. Antoinette Candia-Bailey and many of us are experiencing trauma from the treatment of  women leaders.  Epps, Dr. Orinthia T.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“We first have to understand where we’ve been to think about what humanizing higher education can mean, a path forward in uncertain times,” said Gaston Gayles. Youngbull studied TCU concepts of student success by interviewing leadership and faculty at five different institutions in New Mexico, Arizona, and North Dakota.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

We and many others have written about how Black males are the most disenfranchised students in our nation’s schools. The results of our study helped us to better understand how academies provide a platform for Black male students' interest in engineering as a viable college and career pathway. Dr. Erik M. Chapter 3: Ford, D.Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Mellon Foundation, the BMRI amplifies collaborative thought leadership and social justice and strives to counter conflicting narratives, distrust, and ambiguity with a clear, authoritative voice on the experiences of Black men. So it’s important for us to invest as many resources as possible.” Arthur Evans, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2023

The convening was organized by the Student Leadership Network (SLN), a nonprofit helping young people in diverse, underserved communities access higher education. TYWLS use what they call the Whole Girl Education framework, which has four main focuses: early college and career awareness, STEM, health and wellness, and leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

In recognition of his commitment to inclusive excellence, servant leadership, and his devotion to lifting up the disenfranchised in the community college space, Gonzales has been named a 2023 recipient of the Diverse Champions Award. It’s worked well for us. There, Gonzales earned an Ed.D. The MCCCD Governing Board took notice.

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MARCH 3, 2023

In the 2021 school year, about $10 million went to HBCUs in the state through financial aid, and the year before that it was $12 million. Biddix’s team of graduate students, who Lundy called “the A-Team” as a nod to accreditation and the superheroes of the 1980s, began working with KC leadership and Brown in June 2022.

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MARCH 5, 2023

Strayhorn praised Montclair State University on the success of the MEGA Summit, adding that the convening was a " clarion call about the urgent need to focus on minority men’s sense of belonging in education," he said.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

He added that NCCU senior leadership were keen to become a member of Common App to reach as many potential students across the country and even internationally as they could, but particularly to reach those in their home state. Students who wish to apply to NCCU using other methods may do so, Bailey added, “But now, we’re on the Common App.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

“While American women have advanced in the last 175 years, we haven’t come close to achieving equity,” said Laura Rebell-Gross, senior managing director of Girls’ Education with the Student Leadership Network, a nonprofit organization working for educational equity. Dr. Lisa Hinkelman shares research from her nonprofit, ROX.

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