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ACPA Student Affairs Assessment Institute Recap

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Frontrow: Jennifer Lowman, Amy Pilcher, Britt Spears-Rhymes, Ciji Heiser, Renee Delgado-Riley, and Shae Robinson) Last month, ACPA and its Commission for Assessment and Evaluation hosted their Student Affairs Assessment Institute in Chicago, IL. Gavin Henning and Anne Lundquist, leaders in student affairs assessment.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. Point Foundation Scholars “Students posted videos on Tik Tok of them having to pull down the rainbow flag and to shutter the doors,” says Hall. About 45.5%

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Dr. J. Luke Wood to Become President of Sacramento State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wood is currently San Diego State University’s (SDSU) vice president for student affairs and campus diversity and chief diversity officer. He sees himself as evidence of the power of a Sacramento State education. Sacramento State was critical to Wood’s ascension to academic and administrative stardom after a difficult childhood.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’ve seen a rise in hate,” says Dr. Bridget Kelly, an associate professor and student affairs & diversity officer at the University of Maryland’s College of Education. The administration also made sure that Hall wasn’t assigned an unreasonable amount of administrative or DEI work. “We Dr. Candace N.

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Hard at Play: SAAL Leading the Charge

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Photo by Burst on StockSnap The Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) has been hard at play this summer. We are definitely leading the charge during a very tense time in higher education where campuses are being forced to change practice due to legislative shifts. Promote the podcast via the SAAL listserv.

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John Mercer Langston Paved the Way for Black U.S. Representatives, But Most People Don’t Know It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Youngkin in his first act as governor issued Executive Order 1 that labeled the teaching and pedagogical use of DEI in history and other subjects as “divisive.” A member of the Youngkin Administration recently stated that “DEI is dead.”

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An academic administrator on teaching career-ready skills in class

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Reed spoke with Inside Higher Ed about his cross-departmental work and a new initiative at Montana to match course objectives with professional experience. Q: What led you to your career in higher education? A: I was a first-generation college student from a small coal-mining community in east Kentucky.