Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Joy Gaston Gayles Gayles is currently an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor of Higher Education and senior adviser for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the College of Education. She was the 2022 President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 27, 2023
As a student activist, a longtime faculty member, and an administrator in higher education, I am particularly proud of two career accomplishments. Unfortunately, students had to repeatedly make their case to skeptical and unsupportive university administrators, trustees, alumni, donors, and legislators.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Yet leading up to the federal ruling, a string of state legislative actions — each seeking to hobble or even decimate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities and programming on university campuses — provides a telling story of a divided national mindset. DEI and the culture of higher education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Even though the landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education may have changed over the last three years, institutional and academic search firms say their commitment to identifying leaders, staff, and faculty who embody the essence of DEI work remains strong. Earlier this year, Republican Gov.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 22, 2023
It was twenty-five years ago this month that I left my position as chancellor of the University of Michigan-Flint to become what many say was the first person to serve as vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at a major research university. There are two persistent questions that have taken root in my mind.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 4, 2024
Claudine Gay The intense scrutiny Gay was put under for her responses during a Congressional hearing on antisemitism in early December and her alleged plagiarism was demonstrative of governmental intrusion and a political attack against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on campuses, scholars and education observers have lamented.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Dr. Charlie Nelms is a veteran higher education administrator and chancellor emeritus of North Carolina Central University. Now is the time to hold ourselves accountable for achieving the progress we wish to see, rather than expecting those in power to do the right thing.
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