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Pepperdine University Professor Seeks to Give High School Students a Head Start

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Now, approaching its second year, the program has gained momentum. Dr. Kendrick Roberson Black and brown students have historically been on the lower end of educational attainment, said program creator Dr. Kendrick Roberson, an assistant professor of political science at Pepperdine. In fact, you are in the mastery phase."

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Race & Justice Imperative Focuses on the Need for Sustained Political Energy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This year’s Race & Justice Imperative—a series of conversations with Black political leaders put on by the DC-based newspaper The Hill —came at an auspicious moment for Black power. It is crucial, they said, to keep up the momentum, even when an election isn’t right around the corner.

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Keir Starmer’s five missions reveal a man serious about being prime minister | Polly Toynbee

The Guardian Higher Education

The Tory chairman, Greg Hands , said that Starmer would “say anything if the politics of that moment suit him”. Momentum said: “His promises lie in tatters, ditched in favour of the reheated third-way Blairism typified by these latest, vapid ‘missions’.” Sky asked him after his speech: “Why should anyone believe a word you say?”

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Ivy League to Become Collegiate Outlier in Top Women Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shafik is an economist and current president of the London School of Economics and Political Science, which McCaughey notes is quite different from an American research university that has a substantial undergraduate program. Forward momentum Dr. Taylor Odle Odle said greater diversity is a distinctly possible outcome from these presidencies.

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AmeriCorps service member Megan Garcia reflects on her college admissions journey and her excitement for the upcoming year

College Forward

Megan Garcia is a graduate of Willamette University, where she studied Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics. Big picture, I want students to have those “aha” moments that build their enthusiasm and momentum for college. This year, she’s serving as a Navigate high school coach with students from rural communities in Oregon.

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An Agile Approach to Strategic Planning

Campus Sonar

depending on the political realm of your state. It also supports institutional knowledge and change management to avoid losing too much momentum during changes in leadership. It’s not only on campus; you've got champions outside of campus, which may include the governor to the legislature, the state higher ed executive officer, etc.,

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

She is the author of two important books on the history of immigration and childhood, The Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962 and Suffer the Little Children , a history of U.S. Without mentoring, students are likely to lose focus, direction and momentum.