Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Defenders of anti-racism in higher education have had a hellacious year. Taifha Alexander The summer, with its break for both schools and many state legislatures, has given advocates a much-needed respite. But experts warn that conservative attacks on higher education aren’t going away any time soon. And the U.S. Ron DeSantis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Higher Education and Student Affairs Education:   M.Ed., He draws upon scholarship in critical race theory and Jotería studies in education and invites his research participants to become co-creators and to be in conversations, or pláticas, with him. Applied Gender Studies, Claremont Graduate University B.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Tenured: No Age: 40 Education: B.A., Agloro says her goal is to impart skills that allow communities to be their own advocates in a world not designed to hear them. Her scholarship translates into policy and engagement.” public & private sector organizations, Brown University; M.A., What can we anticipate?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig, dean of the University of Kentucky’s (UK) College of Education, has been named the winner of the University Council for Educational Administration's (UCEA) 2022 Linda C. Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig The award – named after diversity and equity advocate Linda C. s education system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Williams They continue to be essential beacons of higher education for the talented students who attend them. TMCF is an expert force in educational equity, making higher education more accessible and creating opportunities for generations of students systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions. Dr. Harry L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The current context of education is riddled with anti-Blackness that continues to find systemic ways to harm Black children and adolescents, ranging from the persistent surveillance and pushout from educational opportunities to anti-CRT legislation that prevents all students — not just Black youth — from learning about Black history and culture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As conservative zealots maneuvered to bring higher education institutions under scrutiny for their imagined manipulation of impressionable young minds, the analytic approach known as critical race theory (CRT) came under attack as the most subversive aspect of the academic experience.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Because LGBTQ+ individuals often take nontraditional paths to education and have increased high school dropout rates, BQLP is the first program at the school to be open to students of all ages. BQLP students gain a network of queer colleagues and mentors while also learning how to advocate for themselves and their community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The recent arrival of National Black Voter Day is a matter of utmost significance given the storied history of Black voter suppression in this country. The involvement of educated Black youth voters from HBCUs brings forth a wealth of real-life experiences as it relates to participatory civic engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Don't really be afraid to get innovative [and] push back against this traditional view of honors education.” CBCC’s Honors Program’s development into a college will come with a host of upgrades, including more experiential learning, research opportunities, lecture series, and the offering of merit scholarships.

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ACPA

APRIL 26, 2024

My hope would be that as Convention Relations Chair, I would be able to advocate for fat people and put work into making the convention experience even more positive and connective. It is important for fat student affairs practitioners and fat students to receive the recognition of their work, advocacy, and scholarship.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Through a lecture called “My Wild Life Story: From Special Education to PhD,” Gómez shares his educational journey in the classroom and at speaking events to inspire underrepresented students to pursue careers in the fields of STEM. His lecture also shares learning challenges he had to overcome to get to college and graduate school.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. As faculty, we constantly see opportunities for democratic education in multiple courses, departments, and disciplines. The tide seems to be turning.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

If the media is to be believed, the future of the senior diversity officer in higher education is bleak. In 1996, California voters passed a statewide ballot initiative, Proposition 209, that eliminated consideration of race in public education, contracting, and hiring. Our newer faculty ranks are at their most diverse in UC history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Lieberman is the 18th president of La Verne and the first woman to lead in the university’s history. Lieberman advocates having pride in community. “Be Be proud of the education you’re providing for those students.” In May, an unnamed donor committed to the largest gift in the history of the university, $18.1

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

Stewart Kwoh, co-founder and co-executive director of the Asian American Education Project It’s an outcome, the panelists agreed, that calls into question the very nature of America. “You can bet money on it.” A primary motivation for the anti-affirmative action sentiment is a form of anxiety generated by white supremacy, according to Murray.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

” While many colleges and universities have long-established policies in place to determine how they name facilities, scholarships, programs and more, denaming policies are rarer, often springing up only after advocates start pushing for a building’s name to be changed. Ultimately, the president or board has the final say.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In the last two weeks in higher education, the number of presidents to announce retirement doubled that of confirmed hires. Other notable accomplishments include diversifying the student body, ensuring continued financial stability and maintaining in-person education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2022

We teach a mathematics content course for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) in a graduate-level teacher education program in Canada. Our experiences as educators in this context has shown us the value of encouraging PSTs to share their stories about what propelled them into the world of education while sharing our own stories.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Colleges have a history of licensing their mascots and logos—including, increasingly, to breweries, which can provide a helpful, if relatively small, revenue stream while also creating excitement around the institution’s brand and strengthening community partnerships. ” Substance abuse–prevention advocates agree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

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. Jackson has also been an advocate for gender equity.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations There are dozens of national, international, and regional organizations supporting higher education. They work on policies and best practices for research and scholarship in higher education. They focus on expanding access to all students.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. As faculty, we constantly see opportunities for democratic education in multiple courses, departments, and disciplines. The tide seems to be turning.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2022

We teach a mathematics content course for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) in a graduate-level teacher education program in Canada. Our experiences as educators in this context has shown us the value of encouraging PSTs to share their stories about what propelled them into the world of education while sharing our own stories.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It serves as an advocate and provides a safe space for members of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming communities and their allies. . CAMP provides academic, financial, and personal assistance for first-year students from migrant or seasonal farmworker families to increase educational access and improve retention.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Texas’s move to limit DEI in hiring comes less than a week after Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced proposed higher education reforms that include defunding DEI initiatives at state universities. ” Academic freedom advocates also expressed concern over the memo.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

ATSU is also creating a Grow Your Own faculty development program that offers a low-to-no-cost education designed to support students interested in academic medicine. Five areas were examined: curriculum, equitable assessment, mitigating bias, learning environment culture, and equity in research education.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

STEM ALL IN Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences (CECAS) STEM ALL IN empowers participants to pursue STEM graduate degrees through on-campus experiences, educational sessions, and network building. Students gain STEM learning experiences that challenge them to think critically.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Supreme Court and a politically charged climate rife with increased incidents of bias and hate, 2023 promises considerable challenges for higher education leaders and practitioners working in the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) space. With major legal decisions like the race-conscious admissions cases currently in front of the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world. The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, sponsored by the U.S. Yet, at most U.S. Faculty whose parents have Ph.D.s—and

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Image: Arizona voters will decide next month whether to allow undocumented students in the state to receive in-state tuition—one of three statewide measures on the ballot this November related to higher education. Harnisch said Arizona’s Proposition 308 is “the marquee higher education ballot measure this year.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

President Joe Biden, left, is flanked by Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. Department of Education (ED). Biden Administration U.S.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

From Leonardo da Vinci (whose trans-disciplinary inventiveness was attributed to his ADHD) to bell hooks (whose professorial role drew on her activism and poetry practice), history has no lack of examples of how creative and neurodivergent processes have produced insights to catalyse social and culture change. Collage, Can-Do, Curiosity.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Amid the frenzy of political and legal battles, higher education is being called upon to accelerate support services and policies to protect the rights of its LGBTQ+ students and employees. In particular, our focus is LGBT-inclusive education, something specifically impacted by bills such as [Florida’s] HB 1069 and [Florida’s] HB 999.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In his keynote address, EAB’s Dr. Ed Venit explored the “ripples” that will impact higher education years into the future, and what actions can be taken today to prepare for them: 1. Disrupted transfer availability. Elevated student mental health needs. We learned that students mental health may be the greatest threat to retention.

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