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Doing More with Less: HSIs and the Recipe for Upward Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) offer more upward mobility for their students when compared to Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), despite having fewer resources. Institutions should really take a look at the strategies that HSIs are using to support low-income, high-needs student groups,” said Gasman.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

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14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. It’s especially thrilling to see a variety of positions and institutions represented in this section of each semi-monthly edition.

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Report Shows the Shift Away from Tenured Faculty in the U.S. Academic Workforce

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Women and underrepresented minorities held part-time appointments in greater proportions than men and non-underrepresented minorities. Hesaid the report serves three purposes. Third, it introduces AAUP’s new website. “If That puts institutions in a difficult place.” First, it brings the numbers up to date.

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Why HBCUs Need Campus Abolition (And The Rest of Y’all Too)

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Davis III An unidentified staff member—who was not directly involved in the incident according to news reports—called campus police in response to an argument between the student and her professor at the professor’s request. These recent examples only further demonstrate a lack of institutional concern for the safety of Black students.

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Help Wanted

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In January, nurses from two of New York City’s private hospitals went on strike. The Ohio State University College of Nursing uses its Summer Institute for Future Nurses as a recruiting tool for high school students. Information was not provided about new nursing hire recruitment. But a November 2022 article in U.S.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

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Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. The assistant principal for boys suggested she apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where she served until 1999.

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Virginia Tech fosters collaboration, diversity in higher education at HBCU/MSI Research Summit

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The Pamplin College of Business welcomed 25 visiting faculty members and students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and minority-serving institutions (MSIs) for the annual HBCU/MSI Research Summit. Read more from VT News.