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Degrees and Certifications Help Inform the Future of DEI Leadership

Insight Into Diversity

While sharing overarching goals, these efforts serve a variety of constituents such as corporate managers looking to address their own biases and help build more inclusive work environments or those who plan to pursue leadership roles in academic diversity offices.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’ve seen a rise in hate,” says Dr. Bridget Kelly, an associate professor and student affairs & diversity officer at the University of Maryland’s College of Education. Hall was encouraged to lean into who she is, to do, as she put it, the scholarship that feeds her soul. Louis International Film Festival in November.

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. college and university leaders connecting the dots between immigration policy and its impact on students. Of the approximately 427,000 undocumented students attending a postsecondary institution, only 12.5%

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OEE Scholar Interview Series: David S. Byers, MSW, Ph.D.

ACPA

We’re excited to highlight the scholarship of David S. Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Before transitioning into academia I worked in counseling programs at several universities and community clinics and did psychotherapy and consultations in high schools and colleges.

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Dominican University VP builds hope for first-gen students

Inside Higher Ed

Barrington Price, Dominican University’s vice president of student success and engagement, knows this well—because he was a struggling first-generation college student himself. Half of our students are the first in their families to attend college. I should know—I failed out of college my freshman year.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. Macaulay is a highly selective honors college for students in the CUNY system. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N. Less than 10% of applicants are accepted.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The cautionary advice dispatched by his mentors when Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz was a college student dented his confidence and, on several occasions, tripped him up. So, we're going to create this environment that includes aspects of your culture. And it wasn’t that we were fighting society or academia. SACNAS filled that hole.