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Focus on DEI in Higher Education: Highlighting Your Work for 50 Years

Insight Into Diversity

During the past 50 years, INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, formerly the Affirmative Action Register (AAR), has reported on the abundance of programs, policies, best practices, and other efforts implemented to advance DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in higher education and beyond.

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Vanderbilt University Expands Popular Financial Aid Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Daniel Diermeier, the university's chancellor, announced the university’s commitment to offering full-tuition scholarships to admitted students of families whose annual income is $150,000 or less. “We We want everyone who has what it takes to get into Vanderbilt to be able to enroll, regardless of their financial background.

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Meet Shai Reshef, the 2023 Yidan Prize Winner

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The award recognizes their innovative solutions which help learners reach their full potential, by advancing the quality of teaching and learning and breaking down barriers to higher education globally. Shai's model reimagines higher education, opening the doors for those who have previously been excluded," said Dorothy K.

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Hospital Honors Trailblazing Surgeon With Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D. Outpatient Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Endowed Scholarship Fund for minority medical students in 2009. He also performed the world’s first successful implantation of an automatic heart defibrillator in 1980; founded the annual Johns Hopkins Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration in 1982; and helped fund the Levi Watkins, Jr., who was a pastor at his family’s church.

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I Can Get There: Developing and Assessing Student Career Self-Efficacy  

Faculty Focus

There have been career and occupation-focused research studies in self-efficacy, including some intricate empirical work (Abele and Spurk, 2009). Woodward has written a number of papers on teaching business in higher education for the UK, USA, and Australian periodicals. 1 (2009): 53-62. Educational Self Efficacy Scale.

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I Can Get There: Developing and Assessing Student Career Self-Efficacy  

Faculty Focus

There have been career and occupation-focused research studies in self-efficacy, including some intricate empirical work (Abele and Spurk, 2009). Woodward has written a number of papers on teaching business in higher education for the UK, USA, and Australian periodicals. 1 (2009): 53-62. Educational Self Efficacy Scale.

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Only Within Their Own Institutions, Are Black Scholars without Honor!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before going deeper with our assertions, we (the authors that pinned this piece) also acknowledge that dishonor, is not the sole experience for Black scholars and sdministrators, who serve in higher education. Higher Education is a very challenging environment for anyone but particularly for scholars and administrators of color.