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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

As a tenured full professor of political science, a former director of graduate studies and admissions, dean, and now vice president for diversity, I view the crisis of Black faculty and staff retention in the Academy as a quiet earthquake — slowly moving beneath the ground, embodying the terrors that make academic life untenable.

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Post-Pandemic Resurgence Bolsters HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early pandemic years “Absolutely, we saw an increase in interest and applications,” said Angela Nixon Boyd, assistant vice president for enrollment management and dean of admission at Hampton University in Virginia. From 2021 to 2023, the number increased 120%. “We Our retention rates continue to be very strong.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more.

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Study Tracks Diversity Outcomes for Physician Assistant Programs

Insight Into Diversity

She also recommends that programs actively work to involve faculty, staff, and alumni to support an inclusive culture, establish a holistic admissions process that mitigates bias , and help students find resources such as scholarships for graduate school. This article was published in our January/February 2023 issue. PAdiversity. ●.

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Welcome Tricia Serio, our next UW Provost and Executive VP

UW Presidential Blog

She will take office on August 1, 2023, pending approval by the Board of Regents. Her research focuses on the cellular regulation of self-perpetuating protein conformations in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and her scholarship has advanced our understanding of severe neurodegenerative diseases in mammals and how to reverse them.

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Academic Libraries Leading the Way in Accessibility

Insight Into Diversity

American University Library (AUL) is a founding member of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Diversity Alliance, a program built on the commitment of participating libraries whose focus is strengthening the hiring and retention practices of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in academic and research library positions.

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Remembering Dr. Lee Noel

Helix Education

Lee Noel, 1934-2023 Dr. Lee Noel, one of the founders of Ruffalo Noel Levitz, passed away recently at the age of 89. He began his career in higher education at Illinois State as the assistant dean of students and financial aid administrator, and in 1963, became the associate executive director of the Illinois State Scholarship Commission.