Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Scott is a professor and the Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley in the School of Education. She has been an active member of AERA since 2000.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2023

When it comes to university prestige, no other country seems to hold a candle to the United States, according to the most recent international rankings by higher education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds. was the University of Pennsylvania, with two bests in Nursing and Marketing. University of Oxford (U.K.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The recent announcement of Dr. Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard University swiftly spread through the news and has been an ongoing conversation, particularly among those within higher education academic communities. Epps of Temple University and Orinthia T. It is a loss.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

Duke University is discontinuing its Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship Program, a program for top applicants of African descent. President and Fellows of Harvard College that ended race-based affirmative action in college admissions, reported The Chronicle , a Duke student-run publication.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Claudine Gay, president-elect of Harvard University. Gay, dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will succeed current Harvard President Dr. Lawrence S. I am honored to stand before you as the next president of Harvard University,” Gay said at a press conference following the announcement. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Okediji has been appointed the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Okediji holds a Bachelor of Law degree from University of Jos in Nigeria as well as a master’s and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

has been tapped to become dean of the Howard University School of Law. Fairfax is a passionate legal educator whose extensive scholarship and commitment to criminal justice reform are deeply aligned with the law school’s mission,” said Howard President Dr. Ben Vinson III, who announced the appointment effective July 1, 2024.

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 24, 2024

Cassandra Da Valle-Chervellera , University of the Pacific Julia VanderMolen , Grand Valley State University Ungrading and Social Work Code of Ethics As a social worker, the philosophy and style of “ungrading” teaching is particularly intriguing. Ungrading What would an American education system without grades look like?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ruth Simmons, the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), will become a senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), effective Jun. 1, The Harvard Gazette reported. Simmons’ ties to Harvard are longstanding.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The American Indian College Fund has announced its third American Indian Law School Scholarship for a student entering Harvard Law School in the fall of 2024. Samantha Maltais Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer The goal is to eliminate financial hurdles to earning a juris doctor degree at Harvard Law School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2023

Having spent more than a half-century as a faculty member, administrator, and advocate in higher education, I lost count a long time ago of the number of meetings I have attended, as well as the number of speeches and presentations I’ve made, all of which I gifted to the Indiana University Archives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

The majority did leave room for some inclusion of race in applications, as long as the discussion of race is concretely tied to an aspect of character or unique ability that an applicant can bring to a university, although disentangling “character” from race may be complex. The decision was blasted by advocates of diversity in higher ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Universities risk undermining diversity by signaling unwelcoming conditions for the same populations who, for centuries, were formally excluded. The University of California learned after Proposition 209 how this can lead to group-level declines in application rates from Black and Latinx students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

A report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) suggests that diversity gains made at the most selective colleges and universities — even with race-conscious affirmative action — have been marginal. President and Fellows of Harvard College ended race-conscious affirmative action.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Adler University has named Dr. Lisa Coleman its next president. Having spent my career addressing how to transform inequitable systems, it is an honor to align my life’s work with Adler University,” said Coleman. She previously served as Harvard University’s special assistant to the president and first chief diversity officer.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The House Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday that it would formally investigate Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania for their recent responses to campus antisemitism—and warned that other inquiries could follow.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

Most selective private colleges and universities in the U.S. still have disproportionately low enrollment numbers for Latino first-time, full-time undergraduate students, according to a recent report from The Education Trust. For 2020, Harvard University scored 52, an F. Yale University received a 62, a D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce wants more information from Harvard University about how officials responded to allegations that its president, Claudine Gay, plagiarized parts of four academic papers, including her dissertation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Most recently, Ohen was associate dean for DEI and belonging at Harvard University. She shares my commitment to cultivating a diverse academic community in which we can ask difficult questions of each other about what it means to educate students to play a meaningful role in a pluralist society.” Ohen holds a B.A.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Ness Book Award from The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The annual award is given to a book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education. Published by Harvard University Press, the book discusses practices of U.S. Dr. Jarvis R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Sabine Stanley Sabine Stanley has been appointed vice provost of graduate and professional education at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Stanley holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and astronomy from the University of Toronto and a master’s and Ph.D. in geophysics from Harvard University.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Marla Frederick will become dean of Harvard Divinity School (HDS), effective Jan. Dr. Marla Frederick She is currently the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at Emory University. “I Garber, provost at Harvard. in cultural anthropology from Duke University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation has launched a scholarship program in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) to provide educational advancement opportunities to descendants of Jesuit and Catholic slaveholding in the United States.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Corbett-Helaire, assistant professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard University and leading researcher behind the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Kizzmekia S. That type of communication has to be intentional, almost so direct that it’s not a wide conversation but targeting conversations.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Bunts served as the chief revenue officer at Bitwise Industries, a Fresno, California-based education technology company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

As university administrators and admissions officers scramble to comply with the Supreme Court’s opinion, here’s the counterintuitive way out. I had told a friend, a female Harvard classmate, that I thought I would cry when, as expected, the Supreme Court finally ruled against the use of race in college admissions. Be color blind.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Since the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case of 1978, the Supreme Court has been asked on several occasions to rule on the constitutionality of using race as one factor in higher education admissions. In the Students for Fair Admissions v. Bollinger decision in 2003.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If you want to see the progress of diversity, look no further than the ascendence of Dr. Claudine Gay, the first Black president and the 30th president of Harvard University. When it was time to name a leader for now and the future, Harvard realized it’s not 1636 anymore. The statue was the face of the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Gilliam has been named president of Boston University. She serves as the executive vice president and provost of The Ohio State University.

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MAY 23, 2023

Previously, she was vice president of instruction at CCC; vice president for academic and student affairs at Roxbury Community College; assistant professor of higher education at SUNY Buffalo; and English instructor at Université de Haute-Alsace. Kimberly Rogers Rogers has been serving as acting president of the school since last June.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Participating in policy debate programs in grade school is associated with improvements in English language arts (ELA) and better odds of graduating and going to college, according to findings from a new study in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2023

Asian Americans face lower odds to be admitted into colleges and universities than white students with similar test scores, GPAs, and extracurriculars. candidate in computational social science at Stanford University and one of the authors of the paper. Hartlep, the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education at Berea College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The annual National Black Pre-Law Conference and Law Fair will take place next week at Harvard University. Evangeline Mitchell Now in its 19th year, the event is designed to help increase the number of African American law school applications, students and graduates nationwide. The event was founded by attorney Evangeline Mitchell.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Joan Donovan says funding was cut off for criticizing Meta when university was receiving $500m from Mark Zuckerberg’s charity One of the world’s leading experts on misinformation says she was fired by Harvard University for criticising Meta at a time that the school was being pledged $500m from Mark Zuckerberg’s charity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

Pinkard will become Brown University’s first-ever HBCU presidential fellow. Pinkard Pinkard, a veteran educator at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), will be retiring this spring as president of Wilberforce University in Ohio. in educational psychology from Howard University; and a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

However, since the vast majority of the nation’s institutions of higher education were created to serve the needs, interests, concerns, and desires of white Americans, it does seem fitting and appropriate that they should be identified as HWCUs. Dr. William B.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 1, 2023

At these private, elite universities, alumni represent a huge chunk of the donors who regularly and generously give to the college. Legacy admission vs. wealth as a path to entry According to a 2023 study by some Harvard researchers, the real boost for admission is not legacy status, but wealth.

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