Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Dr. Aaron Goodson “It’s really important that we see Black women in this position of leadership as head coaches in our sport,” says Smith, who is co-chair of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. “In She rebranded Cal’s annual tournament to reflect a focus on social justice and equity.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

And she used her visibility as a student leader to advocate for more support services for undocumented and low-income students. “By advocating and listening to my peers’ needs at UC Irvine on food, housing and financial insecurity, my volunteer work and passion developed in that area,” she said.

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ACRLog

JUNE 19, 2023

Long is the Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. He’s an advocate of what he calls ethical candor (“the cultivated disposition to be honest with yourself”) and values-based practice ( “aligning our core values with the practices that shape academic life”). But how do you really know?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I will be a better dean for having attended and participated in the conference, hosted by the Classical Liberalism Initiative of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. What is a dean to do? political principle that is embedded in all our lives and actions. There can be no academic freedom without enforcement.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

This was especially true when I was hired as acting dean of student affairs at Compton nearly 18 years ago. Early on, I remember thinking about how important it was to make connections. That was our shoe. So, whenever I wear those, I feel connected to my community, my past, our students today and my authentic self.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. We have a proposal for a graduate certificate program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies that the provost supports. … Morgan State introduced its program as a minor in 2009 at the behest of Dr. Burney J.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

While nurses routinely advocate for their patients, political and legislative advocacy is just as important, according to the American Nurses Association (ANA). To further advance advocacy and equity in health care, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Nursing will launch a new program in 2023 to teach nursing students about policymaking.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

This key finding from the 2022-2023 Healthy Minds Study by the Healthy Minds Network (HMN), an adolescent and young adult research organization focused on mental health, highlights the need for student mental health support. This past fall at Dartmouth College, the Geisel School of Medicine and the C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The widening racial disparities between Blacks and whites is dramatic, noted Ladson-Billings, who pointed out that in 2019, about 30% of Black children lived in poverty, with 1 and 4 Black children facing severe food insecurity. But that's the reality." We need to be talking to the African American newspaper in town. Lewis, and Drs.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

An Alabama jury awarded Michael Stern $645,837 in damages, finding after a two-week trial that Stern’s former dean illegally punished him for speaking out. Stern, an associate professor of economics, said Friday, “I was very pleased with the outcome of the trial, and I believe strongly in our jury system.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

As data from the 2020 election show, faculty frequently served as the most significant communicators of everything from voter registration materials to discussions about critical political issues. Institutional leaders stepped up to support voter engagement initiatives and action plans. These and other strategies are working.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. “The right organizational structure can reimagine our value in the computational and data space. It’s my hope that it deepens our strengths and expands our horizons.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Shamard Charles “With the pandemic, we have a heightened sense of the importance of public health not just in our everyday lives but how public health is weaved into everything we do and how we think about the world,” says Dr. Shamard Charles, MD-MPH, assistant professor of public health at St. and Kathy R.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 1, 2024

President Sacks talked to us about the view on the ground versus the big picture, her personal leadership journey, some of her proudest accomplishments, strategies for decision making, and the power of both information and knowledge. I went to our governor and said, ‘We need $9 million for a nursing project.’ Department of Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). program, to really empower and instill into our students that we need to do this as a nation,” says Sage. Guy agrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sometimes it still surprises me when I think about the fact that we’re actually together,” said LaVar Charleston. The couple counts on each other for ideas, support, understanding, and perspective as they do the difficult, often emotionally taxing work of DEI professionals. Sherri Charleston studied the intersection of U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Individuals committed to community colleges and the vital role they play in American higher education continue to advocate for the students and the institutions that serve them. We have experienced significant loss of older students, who have typically been our traditional community college students.” Dr. Everrett A.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Image: A tenured University of Texas at Austin professor is suing business school leaders there, alleging they threatened his career because he denounced the university’s funding and support of “left-wing” causes—and tried to draw state lawmakers’ attention to it. Perhaps you all can see more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Ford Our focus is on the high-level biases that affect numerous minoritized groups and undermine the overall quality and fairness of promotion and tenure discussions. Our de-biasing recommendations are drawn from the well-established literature on groups, decision making , and culturally responsive, anti-racist practices. Dr. Donna Y.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

The program’s work for the next two years will be supported by $4.85 million in state funding, which can be used for application fee waivers and other student support services. Catron said the program’s budget includes money for application fee waivers, as well as tutoring and other support services.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Choosing a target: Most student success programs in the library focus on undergraduate students, particularly first years or transfers, explains Erin Ellis, president of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the associate dean of research and learning services at Indiana University. Click here to submit.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

She also had some interesting things to say about the changing structure of academic library careers. I asked Sarah if she’d be willing to share some of her insights with our Inside Higher Ed community, and she graciously agreed. Q: How might one go about figuring out the story of academic library budgets?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Information was not provided about new nursing hire recruitment. Those barriers lead to a lack of access to quality education for our minority students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.” Smith says Claflin nursing faculty have gone above and beyond to offer psychosocial support to the students.

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UW Presidential Blog

MAY 17, 2023

As a first-generation college graduate, Tricia knows first-hand how transformative higher education can be, and she is passionate about promoting equity and access to higher education, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math-related fields.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Like just about every policy discussion in Washington these days, this one found the students, consumer advocates, college officials, corporate leaders and others who shared their opinions in three-minute increments to be sharply divided, with little to no middle ground to be found.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2023

“The future higher education institution is rooted in CE, but delivering on that promise requires both strategic and operational support from the institution,” said Amrit Ahluwalia, senior director of content and strategic insights at Modern Campus and editor-in-chief of The EvoLLLution, in a press release. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Jackson hoped that her institution would respond, issue a statement about what had happened and the pain that it might bring Black and brown employees. Do you work for an organization that doesn’t support what’s important to you?” I’m really excited about that.” It never did. It’s traumatic. I have sons,” says Jackson.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This blog was written by Professor Sara Spear, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at St Mary’s University. It is the tenth in our series on leadership in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). For many of us, the pandemic deepened the intersections between home and work.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Tell us a little about your current work role and the work that you do. The Alliance supports that goal in four ways: coalition-building, capacity building, policy, and innovation. There is a great groundswell of support for Early College, and it is these conditions that will allow it to truly grow and successfully serve students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. Griffin, associate professor of higher education and student affairs at the University of Maryland “Our country is diversifying quickly,” she said. Gershenson advocated for additional guest speakers of color. Dr. Kimberly A.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy Last week, I wrote about the 2022 year-end omnibus bill and connected with Rebecca Natow on Twitter. I asked Rebecca to join me in conversation so we could hear more from her about her work in the area of higher ed policy. Rebecca is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at Hofstra University.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

As data from the 2020 election show, faculty frequently served as the most significant communicators of everything from voter registration materials to discussions about critical political issues. Institutional leaders stepped up to support voter engagement initiatives and action plans. These and other strategies are working.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.” The court’s decision was widely criticized by those advocating for diversity in higher ed who voiced concerns over campus diversity and equity. If we reach consensus on a proposal with the non-federal negotiators, our proposed rule generally reflects that consensus.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). There is a growing amount of evidence that the disabling impairments of autism are due to the need of support in one’s environment, and not because of one’s inability to function (Lai, et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The gift was designated to establish a school of sustainability and climate studies, illustrating the growing concern about climate change among elite institutions and donors alike. On the day of the Doerr School launch ceremony, Oreskes gave a teach-in over Zoom about the pernicious influence of fossil fuel money in climate research.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 14, 2022

” He laid the blame on trustees, adding that “some of our board members may not have actually complied with their part of the state requirement in 2021,” and noted that an internal audit of the certification process was underway. 30 provided the first glimpse of the board as a cohesive entity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Biden-Harris administration anticipated that the debt forgiveness would impact 95% of student loan borrowers, or about 43 million people. In January 2022, an additional $198 million in ARP funds went to support primarily community colleges and other high-need institutions so they could address students’ basic needs. The Eighth U.S.

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