Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are launching a $17-million diversity, equity, inclusion, (DEI) and belonging program for the biomedical research community. Racial diversity among research faculty on the national scale is low, with 4% Black, 4% Latinx, 0.2% American Indian, and 0.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

After reading the article “Another Education Fight Over DEI Emerges…” on CNN.com, a daunting thought came over me. The article seems to make clear that incorporating a DEI statement into the application folio of faculty is not considered necessary. But it’s a start.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

The anti-DEI legislation has threatened more than institutional autonomy. Colleges and universities nationwide have established Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices for years to increase faculty diversity and help students from various backgrounds succeed at the post-secondary level and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Over the last year, many consequential changes have been thrown at higher education – new legislation impacted DEI, artificial intelligence entered the classroom in a big way, and we’re still working through the residual effects of the pandemic. Our industry is indeed at an inflection point.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Dr. 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

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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.” The report also featured a framework with which higher ed leaders and students can gauge the racial climates on their own campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For institutions looking to measure their DEI efforts, the tool of choice has typically been campus climate assessments, surveys of groups like faculty or students that provide an aggregate picture of the impact of a college’s endeavors. The instrument also revealed that some basic DEI practices were less common.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Utah higher education leaders are considering steps toward compliance with a new law, HB 261 , that prohibits an institution of higher education, public education system, and governmental employer from engaging in discriminatory practices. The bill, sponsored by Utah State Rep.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Those are the findings of a new report supported by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), and Women in Measurement (WIM). The report also studied how diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and anti-discrimination is perceived in the workplace.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's 2024 Emerging Scholars shared sentiments of drive, hope, community, and validation during a webinar Thursday. The webinar allowed Diverse to inquire further about the scholars’ ongoing research and their views on a number of topics relevant to the current education landscape.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

It took place in 1984 at a higher education conference at MIT, shortly after they had decided to confront the shortcomings in both the journalistic and academic communities by launching a new publication, Black Issues In Higher Education. My first encounter with Bill Cox and Frank Matthews was quite memorable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Additionally, some are located in states where governors or legislators have banned or severely restricted diversity, equity , and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. It’s also harmful to Black people, higher education, and our democracy,” Harper wrote. DEI efforts are designed to stop that kind of behavior. It’s not fine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

PHILADELPHIA— Despite the ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education, more than a thousand educators gathered in-person and virtually late last week to share strategies and brainstorm ways to center equitable outcomes for the students who attend their institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2024

A group of higher education researchers from across the country released a report Wednesday providing what they call “evidence-based expert responses” to critiques of diversity, equity and inclusion policies and practices aired at a Congressional hearing earlier this month.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

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. Classroom That shift in the Point Foundation’s focus led to research, such as the reports with the Williams Institute, and data gathering on the foundation’s applicant pool.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Although the pandemic has negatively impacted enrollment across the world of higher education, the drops for minoritized men at community colleges have been especially precipitous. Some of the researchers’ ideas for state policymakers were student centric. Other ideas focused on teachers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Jay Pearson will become the inaugural associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, effective Jan. Pearson’s research and teaching focused on the effects and impacts of socioeconomic drivers on health outcomes. 1, 2023, The Chronicle at Duke reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Collaborations between Virginia Tech and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have led to 15 research projects supported by grant funding. to bolster research on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Lewis is currently associate director of research and evaluation for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, she was program review and research manager for DEI at Georgia Tech and adjunct professor at Kennesaw State University.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 29, 2023

Francis Key Statement: DEI: Creating a Classroom Culture Keywords: Diversity, Instructional Practices, Classroom Culture Introduction Inclusive classrooms and equitable instructional practices have been a subject of discussion for several years, particularly within higher learning institutions. Karen Blaha , University of St.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. Consider and focus on who DEI helps. The best way is to keep it simple and keep it focused.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

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. In addition, gender and racial gaps among community college trustees continue to be a reality (ACCT, 2018).

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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. She found a majority of research participants worried about the small Black student population and “perceived some level of potential threat (e.g.,

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University Business

DECEMBER 20, 2022

For the past two years, Santa Clara University has won a DEI award from the publication INSIGHT Into Higher Education magazine. But HEED is much more than an accolade for me, and I think it could be for anyone else committed to DEI. Think of areas where we can expand our view of holistic DEI. DEI award digs in.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As attacks on DEI within higher education continue, HBCUs have rightly become a destination for so many students who are looking for a high-quality education. Thus, HBCUs are better positioned to serve as exemplary models of DEI efforts within higher education.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

Dr. KerryAnn O’Meara O’Meara is currently professor of higher education, a distinguished scholar teacher, and special assistant to the provost for strategic initiative at University of Maryland (UMD). in higher education from Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in education policy at the University of Maryland.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Though confidence about the value of pursuing a two- or four-year college degree is higher among high schoolers than graduates who either dropped out or chose not to attend in the first place, neither demographic view such pursuits as the most valuable, according to a recent report from Edge Research, HCM Strategists, and D2 Strategies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. Five years from now, Byrd and Mason want their membership to reach 100 higher education institutions.

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ACEI

JULY 27, 2021

Building and maintaining a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in higher education is hard. The problem is compounded when resistance to DEI work is treated by advocates of DEI as a spasm of white fragility that should (even must) be disregarded.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

As legislative sessions in many states head towards their conclusions, new attempts to exert control over higher education have continued to appear. I’m gravely concerned,” said Dr. Erik Gellman, a tenured associate professor of history at UNC, of HB 715, officially called the Higher Education Modernization & Affordability Act.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

A bill proposed in the Missouri legislature may prohibit Missouri public colleges and universities from requiring diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements when hiring, the News Tribune reported. Doug Mann, adding that views on DEI affect an instructor's ability to teach. Doug Richey HB 1196 – presented by State Rep.

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College for Creative Study

AUGUST 15, 2023

The 26 people profiled as Notable Leaders in Higher Education are administrators, faculty, researchers, board members and others at Michigan institutions worthy of a shout-out. Notable Leaders in Higher Education is managed by Special Projects Editor Leslie D. Green, lgreen@crain.com.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Eventually, both became Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) leaders. Together, the two work to make organizational, leadership, and cultural changes that transform higher education into a welcoming space for marginalized populations. The program has helped students become faculty, researchers, and policy makers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education. Her research is groundbreaking,” says Moses. “It In the current day, threats to the field of education are not few and far between.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

However, it is necessary to recognize the fight against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and affirmative action, which continues to dominate and has taken center stage on the educational landscape. Similarly, the higher education reforms signed into law by Florida Gov. As part of the ongoing battle, Texas Gov.

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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.

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