Great College Advice

JUNE 28, 2023

Write the Common App Essay Prompt 2 About Overcoming Obstacles or Challenges Writing a good essay for your Common Application is tough. We know talking about mistakes and flubs is not fun. Let’s face it, failure is not a subject we enjoy talking about. Very few things we achieve in life come easily on the first try.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Dr. Ivonne Diaz-Claisse “I told my story — what it took for me to achieve my dream — and at the end, the students wanted my autograph,” says Diaz-Claisse, president and CEO of Hispanics Inspiring Students’ Performance and Achievement (HISPA), a nonprofit organization based in New Jersey. She gladly agreed.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

UWP's catalog features influential titles such as Dr. Molefi Kete Asante’s Revolutionary Pedagogy and The African Pyramids of Knowledge , Dr. Nah Dove’s The Afrocentric School, and We Will Tell Our Own Story by Dr. Adebayo C.

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The more you think about what the prompt is asking, the easier it will be to come up with an excellent idea for how to address it. Discuss Your Story for the Personal Growth Prompt At first glance, this prompt doesn’t seem to have a story at the heart of it. Your story must be brief.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

The fascinating story of the book publishing efforts of black Americans have been largely ignored by historians.” (Joyces, 1991, p. If you find that a challenge, how about the very first Black publisher? From the NAACP in 1914 with the publication of A Child’s Story of Dunbar by Julia Henderson to ASALH founded by Carter G.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Joseph Cheah said that he would spend hours at the bookstore, reading about Asian American studies. For the first time, I read somebody talking about me, and most of the books do not talk about me. For the first time, I read somebody talking about me, and most of the books do not talk about me.

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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. We’re going to push forward and tell the stories that aren’t easy to tell.” This project is a counter to that. It helps them feel seen.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. Dr. Terah “TJ” Stewart views those that he research and writes about as collaborators and said that he takes into account how they want their stories shared.

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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. For over 50 years, Orlando had a long and storied career. Almost everyone he ran across has a personal Orlando story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This is especially critical in Chicago, a highly diverse community that is an economic powerhouse in our country but where structural inequities in access to and completion of a post-secondary credential of value put countless lives at risk.” This is now our moment,” said Stout. The founders of ATD met the moment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. There is an African Proverb that says: ‘Until the lion tells the story of the hunt, the story will always glorify the hunter.’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

But keep talking about race. I’ve always talked about race. It’s time for all of us to tell our stories. What about the mutual benefits of having an underprivileged Filipino kid as part of the student body at Harvard? If you feel bad about this decision, you’re in good company. Tell your story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Shane Windmeyer At Emory University , those from multiple generations of the LGBTQ+ community were allowed to tell their stories and discuss American queer history at a Jun. 7 event, “Our Stories: A Celebration of Pride and Living Histories.” Additionally, audience members were able to tell their own stories during an open mic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

By telling the story of how military service interrelates with civil rights and strengthens our country and home and abroad, we are telling a positive story of the people who serve and military service itself — which is particularly meaningful now, when recruiting is stumbling. Since the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission. Rhodes College The three-year grant will provide funding for the research and documentation of Memphians stories who are often absent from the narratives about the city.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Cardona spoke about his experience as an undergraduate student. His story illustrated the need for comprehensive advising with an essential focus on access. Throughout the year, mentors can provide mentees with information about mental health resources available on campus. He also spoke about building effective partnerships. “In

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 3, 2023

A portrait like this is fairly static: no movement, no grand story to tell. The details help make the painting interesting and raise questions in our minds about the central figure (which in your college essay would be you!). How about the old guy using a stick for balance: should he even be out there on the ice?

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

How will you write your Common App essay about a belief or idea? The Common Application prompts give you a chance to answer an interesting question, tell an important or revealing anecdote, and reflect on the ways in which the anecdote reveals something about your character, your beliefs, your values, or your personal priorities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

Rather, my mother bought McCall’s book for herself because – like many readers – she was riveted by a report on NPR about McCall’s remarkable foray into the newspaper business after having served time in prison for robbing a McDonald’s. To me, the biggest challenge for Black journalists isn’t rectifying our numerical representation.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

These are efforts to silence, to stigmatize, to basically select out from school books that talk about race, racism, or LGBTQ lives, with no regard for due process, for reading books before they're removed, or the notion that such books could have literary or education merit for young people." This is the history of our country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2023

In 2018, Diverse published a story about prominent scholars who were mentored by her. She has also served as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and President of Hunter College of the City University of New York. She has also held a tenured professorship at Columbia University.

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The Scholarly Teacher

AUGUST 30, 2023

I do include reminders about upcoming assignments, but these videos have become something far greater. I might follow up on something from class that week, but mainly I talk about what we will be doing in the next week. In addition to the preview of the next class, I include some sort of story or joke.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She tells viewers not to be afraid to ask questions about a career that interests them and says she will gladly answer questions about being a university professor. Lima-Neves says she’s keeping it real, openly speaking about how chaotic life can be despite its many rewards. That speaks to my vision and my mission.’

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 30, 2023

We have already discussed how the main focus of your essay needs to be YOU and how you need to “go deep” with you essay by writing about something personal. When it comes to questions about the structure of your personal statement, we always begin with this essential piece of advice: Tell a Good Story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2023

Instead, they will be able to write about a “personal or historic connection” with the school and how that influenced them. We believe this approach is consistent with our efforts to treat all our candidates as individuals, in light of their capacity to advance our mission, and in the fullness of their humanity.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Marvin Dunn, professor emeritus of psychology at Florida International University, who has pledged to continue teaching his syllabus as originally constructed before the 2022 passage of the Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Dr. Lonnie G. Yet they shape what this country is.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

While there is much to learn and critique from the themes of her story, the part that is most striking to our author team is the intentional focus on space and fit. One takeaway of this story is the obvious yet powerful assertion that not all of us have the same body and as such not all of us will navigate space or find fit the same.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

He has been an invaluable member and contributor of our queer Latinx academic and activist community,” Tijerina Revilla stated in her letter. Despite the accolades, Gonzalez is realistic about the academic landscape, given the current push for anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in a growing number of states.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Am I concerned about it? Sorrell said that institutions on probation must be intentional about reaching out to their alumni, students, faculty, staff, and stakeholders to let them know exactly how the institution will respond to the moment. McPhail is confident that SAU’s story is just beginning to resonate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

While some individual campuses have emerged as success stories around college completion, growth in the nation’s college completion rate has stalled at 62.2%, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Are our programs stackable and focused toward career progression?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Gee is also charged with dishonesty about the source of the university’s $45 million budget hole by minimizing the role of his own poor planning. I have seen numerous stories and posts about how we are ‘gutting’ or ‘eviscerating’ our university. Enrollment has instead dropped sharply. That is simply not factual.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Missing in the narrative and discussion are the stories we see on our campuses and in our communities, in action every day. Stories about diversity professionals doing vital work to support the strategic mission of colleges and universities and create a better future for us all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I was in total shock when I first learned about it,” said Dr. Linsey C. They forge stunning forms of artistic expression from ancestral and regional traditions, heighten our attention to the natural world, improve how we process massive flows of information for the common good, and deepen understanding of systems shaping our environment.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“I’m so pleased that AAC&U recognizes, through my book, the important lessons Black educators of the past can teach us about pursuing meaningful education in the face of tyranny and willful ignorance,” Givens said. “I

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