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Florida’s Anti-DEI Actions Hit Hard for Alumna and Mom of Recent Grad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Johnson My alma mater, the University of Florida, recently eliminated its DEI positions and offices. Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. Dr. Susan D. whose horizons are being increasingly limited each day.

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Higher Education DEI Efforts are in Trouble. Here’s How We Change That

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Numerous state legislatures are in the news recently, asking their campuses to report budgets and resources devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, and for a list of the programs, services and efforts focused on DEI. To identify and cut DEI in higher education. Their goal? But we put the targets on ourselves.

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New DEI Certificate at Muhlenberg Joins Others Working Toward Equity

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Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity and inclusion, and coordinator of the new DEI certificate program at Muhlenberg College. Through conversations with community partners, Vick said Muhlenberg College administration came to realize they could help. As the U.S. Some last for days, others for years.

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Report: Black Female Student-Athletes Face Lack of Diverse Support

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While players in the NCAA Tournament were diverse, head coaches and administrators lagged far behind. Additionally, some are located in states where governors or legislators have banned or severely restricted diversity, equity , and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. DEI efforts are designed to stop that kind of behavior.

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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. noted they received unfair treatment from school administrators. Although the state of Tennessee has pushed back on DEI programming, Vanderbilt is a private institution.

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

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There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. Yet there is little research on the underrepresentation of African American community college trustees. Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014).

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Kudos to Black/Diverse Issues for Four Decades of Truth, Insight, Vision, and Integrity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Partly because conservatives were successful in assigning negative implications to the term “affirmative action,” the expression diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) came into use to describe and facilitate processes that resulted in greater access and participation for people from marginalized communities.