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A pathway to graduate school for Latinx students

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Latinx students can have a tough time navigating the numerous structural and institutional challenges that work against them in academia, especially when it comes to attending and succeeding in graduate school. Graduate school does not need to be a lonely, solitary endeavor, and it’s so much better when it isn’t.

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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed., school counseling, University of Maryland, College Park; and Ph.D., I didn’t even know what graduate school was until I was an undergrad,” Mayes recalls. They planted the seed that graduate school was possible,” says Mayes.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. 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. Dr. Robin L.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6%

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AAMU’s STEM boon carves career paths for HBCU students

University Business

Alabama A&M University and HBCUs at large are some of the most underfunded state universities in the nation, fighting year after year for supplemental grants, scholarships and business partnerships to keep their students competitive in the workforce. Students pursuing this will receive scholarships and assistance with job placement.

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International student athletes in the US – a Global North affair?

The PIE News

Plenty of scholarships are indeed available, even down to activities like chess, esports and the non-contact version of American football, flag football. Those team sports generally provide more scholarship places to begin with but the competition is fierce. It’s not a cheap thing to do.

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Degrees and Certifications Help Inform the Future of DEI Leadership

Insight Into Diversity

University of Kentucky At UK’s College of Education, the PhD in studies in higher education with a specialization in DEI serves as an important tool in training future generations of DEI leaders in academia. The UK College of Education’s doctoral program focuses on applying innovative DEI approaches across complex institutions.