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The Missed Opportunity: Student Affairs and Human Resources Collaboration to [Re]engage College Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jonelle Knox When I reviewed the question posed to me about [re]engaging the college community, I started thinking about a missed opportunity that many colleges and university leaders are not taking advantage of; the collaboration of student affairs and human resources to create [re]engagement activities.

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A 40th Anniversary Love Story: About My Favorite Magazine

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. The IU Higher Education and Student Affairs Program allowed Ph.D. It was love at first sight. in May 2003.

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Are Career Paths of Young Black Professionals in Higher Education Being Impeded by Implicit Racism?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is the case even at our storied Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which are diversifying their workforce with non-Black senior-level administrators and members of the professoriate. The article was unequivocal about what led to such dismal numbers: “…not enough Black Ph.D. Dr. Adriel A.

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JMU administrator leads with student experience in mind

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Early on in my career, I worked for a program at the University of Arizona that supported college students with disabilities, and I found a great calling there because the mentorship that I had done in my undergraduate [years] with middle school students and similar experiences really helped me work one-on-one with college students.

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York College academic administrator won't leave students behind

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Q: What led you to your role as associate provost for student success at York College? I got interested in administrative-type issues. Is this somebody in student affairs? No In-Article Careers: 0 A: I came here to York College to teach, and I did that for many years. Is this somebody in advising?”

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Breaking Barriers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Higher Education and Student Affairs Education:   M.Ed., Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs, University of Southern California; M.A., Gonzalez Institution:   Claremont Graduate University Graduate Program:   Ph.D., Applied Gender Studies, Claremont Graduate University B.A.,

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An academic administrator on teaching career-ready skills in class

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I didn’t know about this thing called Student Affairs just yet, but I knew [there was] a way that I could work at a college and sort of do for other students—particularly first-gen, BIPOC students and Pell Grant students—what others had done for me. : Is this Career Advice newsletter?: