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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

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Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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Calls for Change at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That quote, inspired by famed civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, comes from an open letter sent on April 16, 2024 to Dr. Neeli Bendapudi, president of The Pennsylvania State University. “We Whitehurst, vice provost for Educational Equity at Penn State. “We protest. We are sick. We are tired. Still, we protest.” Dr. Marcus A.

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Dr. Melissa Gilliam to Lead Boston University as Historic First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is currently executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, the first Black to hold that role in the school’s history. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice and vice provost. In doing so, she will become BU’s first woman and first Black president.

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Bard’s Innovative LGBTQ+ Studies Program Prepares Future Leaders

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As legislative attacks continue to threaten the rights and protections of LGBTQ+ students, an innovative new program at Bard College at Simon’s Rock aims to empower them with the professional and social capital to lead the charge for a more inclusive future. The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass.,

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Renaming of the Presidential Citation to the Anne S. Pruitt-Logan Presidential Citation

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She later held the positions of Dean of Women and Dean of Students at Albany State College in Georgia and in a similar position at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. She was appointed Associate Provost, Office of Academic Affairs at OSU in 1984, and then she was named Director, Center for Teaching Excellence in 1986.

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Insight Co-Publisher Lenore Pearlstein Addresses Future Nurses at University of Houston Commencement

Insight Into Diversity

On December 15, the University of Houston’s Andy & Barbara Gessner College of Nursing held its fall 2023 commencement, featuring Lenore Pearlstein, co-publisher of Insight Into Diversity, as the keynote speaker. This article was published in our January/February 2024 issue.

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An Equity and Access Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies (ELPS) and coordinator of the college student personnel program at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she is working to achieve that goal with her scholarship and her administrative responsibilities.

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