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Dr. Ruth Simmons Appointed Senior Adviser on HBCU Engagement for Harvard President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ruth Simmons, the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), will become a senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), effective Jun. At Brown, Simmons led the school’s response and reckoning with its history of slavery and injustice. “I

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

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Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Dr. Donovan Livingston Returns Home, Merging His Hip Hop Self with His College Advisor Self

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Donovan Livingston, award-winning educator, spoken word poet, and public speaker, has spent his career in education bridging the gap between his artistic sensibility and commitment to college access, and social justice. “A in educational leadership and cultural foundations from UNC Greensboro. I was always writing.

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What it Means to Sit at the Intersection of Blackness, Queerness

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Williams-Goliday has been helping guide students for decades, first as an academic adviser for Eastern Illinois University’s Office of Minority Affairs beginning in 1998. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University. There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says.

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Higher Ed Leaders and Scholars Discuss Promises and Pitfalls of AI Tool Usage

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Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday.

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

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Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The individuals and organizations chosen are those whose contributions to higher education are consistent with the highest standards of excellence.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

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How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. But we can learn from experience and draw upon those lessons as we make decisions that will shape the future.