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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. Through the program’s partnership with INSIGHT, students can receive scholarship funding.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009.

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Dominican University VP builds hope for first-gen students

Inside Higher Ed

Our Pillars Scholars program supports first-year African American students, including by providing scholarships and opportunities to engage in community-based, social justice opportunities. All the academia fades away in that moment to one prevailing thought: this moment is the beginning. Around 20 percent enter graduate school.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. Dr. Teik Lim “My family did not have much money, but with the help of a generous undergraduate scholarship from Michigan Tech, I was able to support myself through college and become the first member of my family to earn a college degree,” said Lim.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hall was so enamored of her cluster that she produced a short film about it, documenting how the relationships that she and the other professors had formed helped them navigate being people of color in academia. Hall was encouraged to lean into who she is, to do, as she put it, the scholarship that feeds her soul.

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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. Also, doing that work can and should be done in connection with community. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And it wasn’t that we were fighting society or academia. How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? “We started something that I needed so much,” the 85-year-old said. There was a hole in my heart, and I didn’t know what it was. SACNAS filled that hole.