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If We Could Administer a Lie Detector Test or Truth Serum to Educators Working With Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mayes The new school year is upon us. With it comes our individual and collective hopes and concerns about the quality of life in schools for Black students. Decades of data reveal that this inadequate educator training has negative outcomes of Black students more than other student groups. Explain your response.

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CSU Hires New President, But Questions Linger About the Treatment of Former President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Central State University—a historically Black institution in Wilberforce, Ohio—will announce its next permanent president Friday. He was very student-centered and challenged us all to be excellent. I don’t have anything against a new person coming in, but it’s a shame that even HBCUs sometimes don’t know how to treat our own correctly.

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Law school "denaming" sparks donor debacle

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The board was following a new set of principles adopted earlier that year to ensure the namesakes of buildings, colleges and professorships lived up to the university’s values; the trustees decided that Williams, a wealthy tobacco farmer and slave owner, did not. “History and posterity will judge the University and the Board.”

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A Celebration of Black History Month

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

Welcome to Black History Month! Google got us off to a great start with this video: The contributions of African Americans are often overlooked in higher education. Diversity in the news: Rutgers University has hired its first black president: [link]. One example is W.E.B. I was aware of W.E.B.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Tenure I wholeheartedly agree with one headline: “ Tenure threatened in US more by universities than politicians.” ” As the AAUP puts it: “US faculty are steadily losing the rights of tenure, but far less from bombastic politicians weakening their protections than from universities quietly refusing to grant them.

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Outrage follows Florida college presidents' statement on CRT

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The presidents, who released the statement last month, represent 28 state colleges in the Florida College System, including those that predominantly offer two-year degrees and workforce training programs. He teaches African American studies and history, among other courses.

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

In his time at Coastal Carolina, enrollment grew and their first-year retention rate bumped up 6%, totaling 73%, according to AP News. He was the university’s first Black president. Hudson Following months of a no-confidence vote by the faculty senate, Jackson State University President Thomas K. Located in Melbourne, Fla.,