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5 tips for college and university presidents to support diversity, equity and inclusion

University Business

Conservative groups, politicians and organizations launched a coordinated attack on DEI in higher education in 2023, in some cases disrupting these programs established to promote fairness and student success, and to address decades of exclusionary policies and practices in higher education.

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Strong Networks Help Turn Black Faculty into University Presidents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. Whites make up more than 75% of all professionals in higher education. More than 80% were white.

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Texas Southern University President Retires, Two Years After Taking Job

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Crumpton-Young Texas Southern University President Dr. Lesia L. My goal is to assist in accelerating this urgent and compelling objective and shape the national success of HBCUs and Higher Education at large," she wrote to the Regents. “My Crumpton-Young is leaving the school, just two years into the job.

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What Is a University President to Do?

Academe Blog

BY HANK REICHMAN Last week the AAUP released a special investigative report, “Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System.”

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Whither the College or University Presidency

Inside Higher Ed

Someone who can speak out effectively on behalf of higher education? Weinberg, who transformed their institutions to much deserved acclaim, or the current or recent crop of higher ed innovators who are much in the news, like Joseph E. Not impossible (think of Michael Sorrell), but exceedingly difficult. Why is this the case?

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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job

University Business

Three college administrators—including one president—will be coordinating goodbye parties at their current institutions as they prepare to move on to bigger opportunities elsewhere. His contract is still pending approval from the state’s higher education system. Lisa Coleman – Adler University (Ill.)

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. I prefer to talk about leadership rather than administration, because administration connotes bureaucracy.