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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computer science, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution.

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The Midlife Crisis’s ‘Evil Younger Brother’: The Quarter-Life Crisis

Inside Higher Ed

A recent book by American University’s provost emeritus and professor of business administration and policy Scott Bass offers his advice. Anthropology, history and sociology departments might offer classes that examine changes and cross-cultural variations in the life course, rites of passage and the challenges of achieving adulthood.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In spring 2022, the National Science Foundation awarded $1.5 Perna is the GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education and vice provost for faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Available data suggest that the nation’s faculty are less diverse than relevant comparison groups in terms of socioeconomic status.

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Why Implementing a Richer, More Robust Academic Experience Is So Hard

Inside Higher Ed

“ Senior leadership’s role is essential: as Ehrmann explains in his important book Pursuing Quality, Access and Affordability: A Field Guide to Improving Higher Education , presidents or provosts must define a vision, articulate the institution’s needs and push for cross-silo collaboration. Is this diversity newsletter?: