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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. Undocumented students must navigate ever-changing state policies while searching for scholarships that include them, scrolling through university and collegiate websites for campus environments that acknowledge their unique experience.

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Dominican University VP builds hope for first-gen students

Inside Higher Ed

This past fall, we welcomed the largest first-year class in our history—at a time when college enrollment is dropping nationwide. Our Pillars Scholars program supports first-year African American students, including by providing scholarships and opportunities to engage in community-based, social justice opportunities.

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SRHE News on Publishing: reports from April 2023

SRHE

Open access John Sherer (North Carolina) blogged for The Scholarly Kitchen on 23 March 2023 about a recent initiative to publish open access monographs in history, reporting technical problems, author resistance but also much greater take-up/use, with about three times as many reported individual engagements as even a successful paywalled monograph.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After three decades in academia, Dr. Janet R. When she ended her 15 years as director of BCRW in 2015, the college devoted a day-long colloquium to celebrate her contributions to feminist scholarship and research. Over the past two decades, respect for feminist theory and scholarship and queer theory and scholarship has evolved.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. If a faculty member is assigned more teaching and/or more service, and has less time available for scholarship, they should be evaluated accordingly. The criteria should be read aloud, prior to evaluating that dimension.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. to offer scholarships to DACA students.

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Pivotal Moments in Higher Education DEI

Insight Into Diversity

As we share a bit of our publication’s history in this special anniversary section, we also trace the trajectory of DEI in higher education over the past five decades — a period of profound transformation. The 1970s U.S. Senator Birch Bayh (D-Indiana), the author of Title IX legislation, jogs alongside Purdue University students.