Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

There needs to be more, not fewer opportunities to assist students of color on campuses, according to a new report from The Education Trust. Campus racial climate is defined in the report as the “current attitudes, behaviors, and practices of faculty and students at a higher education institution toward students based on their race/ethnicity.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity and inclusion, and coordinator of the new DEI certificate program at Muhlenberg College. Starting in the 2023 – 2024 academic year, students can now enroll in Muhlenberg College’s Graduate Certificate program in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). As the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Pay raises for University of Wisconsin employees are under threat of being blocked by Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who is asking the school to cut diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and staff by $32 million, the Associated Press reported. Democratic Gov. Republican Govs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Access, affordability, and free speech will continue to make headlines in higher education. Dr. Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says the administration will likely reintroduce the rule in 2024 using a negotiated rulemaking process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

One of the effects of the Ohio bill would be the prevention of schools from mandating any DEI training except for school accreditation, federal requirements, professional licenses, or grants. Students and staff would not be required to describe commitments to specific concepts or principles as part of hiring or admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

Color Us United, a nonprofit that advocates for a “race-blind” America, declared a “historic victory” over DEI efforts at the University of North Carolina’s School of Medicine (UNC). However, a closer look reveals a more complicated picture: DEI may be far from dead at UNC. Stevenson as proof that it has triumphed over DEI at UNC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

All higher education professionals from HBCUs across the country, we are among the inaugural cohort of Teaching in an Inequitable Society fellows, sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children Black Caucus and the Institute for the Study of Modern-Day Slavery at Tougaloo College. Well done, SCOTUS.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests. By being proactive with admissions, recruitment, and advising, however, we can reduce this risk. What happens after affirmative action bans?

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University Business

MAY 30, 2023

Supreme Court is set to rule on two cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina in June which will decide the fate of affirmative action in higher education. In light of the ruling, one poll discovered that most of the country doesn’t think race-based admissions should be banned. adults believe the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Given the ubiquitous attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion ( DEI ) led by current and aspiring politicians, including former President Donald J. Even those running for city council, school boards, and state and congressional seats are invoking DEI and critical race theory ( CRT ) as dangerous, divisive, and destructive to democracy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Written by Abbott’s chief of staff, Gardner Pate, the memo warns that using DEI policies in hiring violates both federal and state employment laws by illegally discriminating against “certain demographic groups,” though it does not specify which ones.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 has been a year notable for its ups and downs on the higher education landscape with the elimination of affirmative action and the implosion of President Joe Biden’s student relief program. Affirmative action struck down The U.S. In response to the decision, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of affirmative action in the higher education admissions process continue to ripple across the nation. After an organized disinformation campaign by conservative groups and individuals about the scope of its impact on the higher education community, the U.S. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. had already outlawed the use of race in their admissions long before this ruling. We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Patterson Patterson is currently vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at University of North Alabama. Patterson has previously served as vice president for enrollment management at Marietta College and director of admissions and enrollment services at University of Central Arkansas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

We really want to pull these K-12 and higher education folks in and help them understand the importance of history, so they can combat what they confront right now, and they will continue to confront,” said Dunbar. As the ruling affects the admissions process and not the recruitment process, Dr. Anthony E. According to the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

As the world of higher education awaits a U.S. Supreme Court decision expected to strike down race-conscious admissions policies, a new report from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University is offering more evidence of what a post-affirmative action landscape might look like. Dr. Anthony P. to 0.2%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

People are already declaring a “post-affirmative action era” while still weighing the scales of benefit from new approaches to equity, justice… and admissions. Herein is the substance of responding to public DEI resistance and stakeholder scrutiny. There are tools to help those in relentless pursuit of a common purpose.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Supreme Court slammed the door on race-conscious admissions practices this past June, Americans still broadly believe in the importance of diversity in higher education. The report shows that American views on diversity and equity in higher education are nuanced—or perhaps confused. Although the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Departments of Education and Justice have published their guidance on the Supreme Court’s race-conscious admissions ruling, offering clarity to colleges and applicants about the post-affirmative action landscape. Secretary of Education The releases make clear that this is not true—at least in the executive branch’s interpretation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What Bill Ackman said about Harvard’s President, that she only leads this nation’s oldest university because of DEI, is offensive. We are not even six months removed from the crushing Supreme Court decision, which Harvard was at the center of, that took a sledgehammer to equity in admissions. Plain and simple," said Sharpton. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

University of North Carolina , the cases that could re-shape the role of race in admissions or even ban it entirely, are not likely to be known until next June. Could it prevent DEI offices from funding ethnic student resource centers and programs? The Supreme Court’s decisions in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Adam Burns Through focus groups and a national survey, Continuing to Explore the Exodus from Higher Education – prepared for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – serves as an update about how sentiments on college have evolved for “non-enrolled” people, 18-to-30-year-old high school graduates who didn’t go to or left college, since 2022.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population. Roy Wilson Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Art Coleman, co-founder of EducationCounsel LLC The Supreme Court’s June ruling ending race-conscious admissions practices left vast patches of uncertainty in its wake. Coleman is a co-founder of EducationCounsel LLC, which provides strategic guidance to institutions of higher education, who has a focus on access and diversity.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Following New College of Florida’s board of trustees voting to abolish all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs schoolwide, the DeSantis-backed president has axed its top officer. The three other officers who worked in the now-defunct DEI program were reassigned. “I am the first casualty in many ways.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

Supreme Court ended race-conscious college admissions policies in June, focus turned to searching for alternatives. Seemingly everything from using class-based preferences to ditching legacy admissions to replacing admittance regimes with lottery systems has been suggested. After the U.S. He worked on the study.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

As a young girl who fled her native country’s civil conflict and climbed this country’s academic ladder to become a first-generation college student, her experience in university admissions and governance reflects a similar thread. As the provost of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., ” Rivera-Mills begin this June. .

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University Business

JUNE 27, 2023

Higher education’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is nearing a potential inflection point as two trends coalesce this summer: State bills stamping out DEI offices and two Supreme Court rulings are expected to strike down affirmative action in the coming days. At the campus level, colleges risk isolating students.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With standardized testing losing steam and affirmative action ending, admission officers have to adapt new critical frameworks to study potential students’ fit at a given institution. Enter “holistic admission” or “holistic review,” higher education’s biggest buzz phrase in this next application cycle.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Williams, a director of student affairs and DEI for graduate programs in sustainability management and sustainability science, tours the country and tells people about what the Ivy League school’s fellowship can offer them. Admission into an SPS master’s degree program does not automatically mean admission into the fellowship.

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University Business

MARCH 15, 2023

Harping on recent Republican legislation from Florida, Oklahoma and Texas, Ohio is the latest state to propose a bill that spurns DEI initiatives and chips away at the stability of tenured faculty who lawmakers believe inhibit campus intellectual diversity. Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, according to The Colombus Dispatch.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Supreme Court expected to deliver a ruling that outlaws affirmative action as early as next week, the 35 th National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE), which has drawn over 5,000 administrators, scholars, and students to New Orleans, featured a session Wednesday on how colleges can respond. With the U.S.

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University Business

JUNE 9, 2023

It’s a question that Noah Geisel, the micro-credential program manager at the University of Colorado Boulder, asks employers, admissions counselors and all other professionals trying to find the most qualified human among the swaths of faceless applicants—the hay. What if we issued a badge on DEI?” ” Geisel says.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Supreme Court justices heard challenges to race-based college admissions in two cases involving Harvard College and the University of North Carolina. However, colleges may consider race in admissions using “compelling interest.” Now, the future of affirmative action rests in their hands.

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University Business

JULY 28, 2023

At Wednesday’s National Summit on Equal Opportunity hosted by the Department of Education, presidents, chancellors, provosts, CEOs and secretaries from across the nation heeded Department Secretary Miguel Cardona’s advice to turn this “low point” in higher education into a “turning point.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: The Ron DeSantis takeover of Florida higher education was on full display Tuesday. DeSantis, now in his second term, launched the opening act on Tuesday when he announced promised higher education reforms. Lawmakers are likely to take up the reforms when the state Legislature convenes in March.

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