Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

Although women and people of color have made small amounts of progress over the past half-decade, the college presidency is still mostly white and mostly male That’s the main takeaway from the American Council on Education (ACE)’s The American College President: 2023 Edition , released Friday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Watching Black women win is one of our favorite things. Conversely, it seems to be one of society’s least favorite things. Black women are not allowed to freely express themselves in ways that white women have historically been praised for, whether it is displaying passion or vulnerability.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Williams The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation was born out of the 2016 discovery that in 1838, the Society of Jesus sold more than 272 enslaved men, women, and children from their plantations in Maryland to plantation owners in Louisiana to save Georgetown College from financial ruin. Dr. Harry L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She feels it’s important to share her stories with women — in and out of academia — and build community with other scholars. Over the course of her career, she has built a community of Black women professionals who are supportive and provide inspiration. Dispelling stereotypes about Cape Verdean women has been important to her.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

Only 44 percent of tenure-track faculty and 36 percent of full professors are women. Women are still paid less than men at every faculty rank and in most positions within institutional leadership. Additionally, women college presidents experience a pay gap of under 10 percent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Her pursuit for knowledge led her to a career in academia where she has devoted her life to centering the experiences of Black women. “All those kinds of things shaped me in becoming a sociologist,” Pittman said in an interview with Diverse. Yes, these women love their grandchildren. It goes without saying.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Research conducted by the Institute for Women's Policy Research highlights that single mothers with a degree earn significantly higher annual incomes than those with only a high school diploma, indicating the profound economic benefits associated with higher education attainment among single parents.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

NEW YORK On the last day of the Student Leadership Network’s (SLN) Whole Girl Education National Conference: Closing the Gap, CEO Yolonda Marshall reminded attendees why they must continue to elevate and educate young women and gender expansive students: because the political and societal climate is dire.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Harvey Black Issues In Higher Education confronted the academy with the unpleasant but undeniable reality that higher education was complicit in supporting a society that was, through various policies and practices, intentionally separate and unequal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

I look forward to joining the HDS community in developing religious and civic leaders for our increasingly complex and diverse society,” Frederick said. She has also authored or co-authored four books, such as C olored Television: American Religion Gone Global and Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Holley said Howard and Mount Holyoke share similar connections, as both were established to serve and uplift populations marginalized by white patriarchal society. “In Mount Holyoke was founded to challenge the idea that women did not need a liberal arts education,” said Holley.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Sean Tipton, chief advocacy and policy officer for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, called the ruling and its impact on patients “devastating.” At least in some women, fertility is a time-dependent concept. Dr. Jenna McCarthy, a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist at IVFMD.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

She has been involved in organizations such as the National Advisory Council of Human Genome Research, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Law Institute, the American Philosophical Society, and the Obama-era Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that higher rates of Black, Hispanic, and multiracial women report feeling mistreated during maternity care compared to white women. It creates a pernicious precedent that leads to broader use of race as a category in American society that I don’t think is helpful.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

“Dean Pierce is not only an outstanding public leader, but also a deeply personal writer and scholar who will bring her profound insights to the role of faith and spirituality in society, particularly in the context of African American culture, to Vanderbilt Divinity School.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Society needs professionals trained to understand this modern landscape and how it impacts their lives and careers. Of these, 72 women (64%) and 45 African American, Hispanic American, Pacific Islander and/or Native American students (40%) were trained in data-related, computational methods.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Dr. Aaron Goodson “It’s really important that we see Black women in this position of leadership as head coaches in our sport,” says Smith, who is co-chair of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. (Basketball Activism and Representation) Invitational. was key,” says Carter-Francique.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation was born out of the 2016 discovery that in 1838, the Society of Jesus sold more than 272 enslaved men, women, and children from their plantations in Maryland to plantation owners in Louisiana in order to save Georgetown College, now Georgetown University, from financial ruin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

She has been laser focused as a critical scholar on examining how the law sometimes fails to remedy societal harms.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

Studies have found gender bias before , but the new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a threat to both male and female faculty members’ futures in departments with lopsided numbers of men and women. “Because the majority of women held gender-minority status (72.6

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It was the latest on a long list of accomplishments in Simmons’ career as one of the nation’s most prominent Black women in higher education. Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Dr. Ruth J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

Women and underrepresented minorities held part-time appointments in greater proportions than men and non-underrepresented minorities. Overreliance on contingent appointments threatens the success of institutions in fulfilling their obligations to students and society. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

Sixty years later, sanitation workers and those who work with waste and recycling remain vulnerable to unsafe and low-paying work, despite their integral role in keeping society running.” We decided that we wanted to highlight women's roles in the Civil Rights Movement. Memorial Banquet on Jan. This led us to learning more about Ms.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

” Barnes was one of five people promoted to presidencies or chancellorships of colleges in the 116-college system last summer, and one of 11 recent CEO appointments over all, seven of whom were women. years in their positions, while men stayed for 5.7 years in their positions, while men stayed for 5.7

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Only 15% were men of color, and 13% were women of color. They also participated in networks dedicated to Black professionals in their discipline, such as the National Society of Black Engineers. Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

This includes advocating for financial incentives such as tax breaks or grants to encourage investment in businesses run by women, minorities, and other marginalized groups. Empower Historically Underrepresented Populations: Higher education institutions have a crucial role to play in empowering historically underrepresented populations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

Image: Since the Taliban suspended the rights of Afghan women to pursue higher education last month, many American higher education institutions and leaders have decried the ban. A few are going further, asking what they can do to help Afghan women regain control of their academic futures, whether through scholarships to U.S.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 4, 2023

So you’re looking for activities for women’s history month, but wonder how you can make them experiential? Women’s history project based learning is the way to go! Each of the following project-based learning activities for Women’s History Month focuses on these essential PBL elements.

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AIFS Abroad

MARCH 8, 2023

Last Updated on March 8, 2023 by Cat Rogliano Did you know March is Women’s History Month ? While women and their achievements should be celebrated all year round, this month is the perfect time to shout about them from the rooftops! She set many records and championed the advancement of women in her field.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Her own artistic interests include themes and topics of representation, diaspora, exile, being Cuban, the Black experience, and women. But still, I do feel an obligation really to society to try to continue to address important problems that matter to the average person." It also weighs on me. There's expectations now,” Marr said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

What confirmed that his mentors — Latino college advisors, speaking from the pain of personal experience — had given him some bad advice were the happenings he witnessed in 2010 at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference. And it wasn’t that we were fighting society or academia.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

“The [Mathematical Association of America] and the [American Mathematical Society] have shared management, and equally contributed to the programming, of the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) since 1998. She is a member of both the Mathematical Association of America and American Mathematical Society.).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

biology, Bennett College; MPH, health behavior and health education, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; and Doctor of Science, society, human development and health, Harvard University Career mentors: Dr. Ana V. It’s the legacy of Black women being on the frontlines of some of the most important movements in our country,” she said.

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University Business

APRIL 6, 2023

. “Overreliance on contingent appointments, which lack the protection of tenure for academic freedom and the economic security of continuing appointments, threatens the success of institutions in fulfilling their obligations to students and to society.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

which measures the average number of children women will have in their lifetime, stands at 1.64. Women need to have at least 2 kids to keep the population from shrinking (net of immigration), as men don’t give birth. It is possible to argue that fewer children are better for society. A TFR of 1.64

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CAPD

DECEMBER 8, 2023

McClellan was a fellow at the Internet Society, Center for AI & Data Policy, and the National Science Policy Network. She also serves as a cybersecurity curriculum developer and mentor to improve representation of minority women in tech roles. As a Schwarzman Scholar, McClellan hopes to compare the impact of Chinese and U.S.

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AIFS Abroad

OCTOBER 26, 2023

International Women’s Day When: March 8 People in Italy joyously celebrate Feste Della Donne , or International Women’s Day, to honor the incredible contributions of women to society. In recent times, it’s become common for women to exchange flowers with each other, too.

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