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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. This is a full-circle moment for me, because Dean Holley was my very first hire as president of Howard in 2014,” said Dr. Wayne A. Danielle Ren Holley is breaking ground.

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Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

What began in 1996 as an audacious attempt to archive and preserve the World Wide Web has grown into a vast library of books, musical recordings and television shows, all digitized and available online, with a mission to provide “universal access to all knowledge.” In The Librarian’s Book of Lists ( ALA, 2010 ), George M.

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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She also serves as project director of the Males for Alabama Education (MALE) initiative, a state-funded program scholarship and mentorship program for minority men walking the teacher education pathway. Once we received funding from the state, I was able to collaboratively develop the program,” Strachan said.

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Using the Law to Help Shape Public Policy - Jamelia N. Morgan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gowder, a Professor of Law and associate dean of research and intellectual life at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law. I think the more immediate goal is to write the book,” says Morgan. Crenshaw, Morgan says that her future career and educational path remains wide open, including the possibility of someday pursuing a Ph.D. “I

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Rutgers Webinar Discusses Health Equity, Minority Health, and Medical Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), founding dean and now president emeritus of the Morehouse School of Medicine, and co-founder of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS). Other achievements include programs to bolster research infrastructure and scholarship assistance, Lancaster said. "We

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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

As a tenured full professor of political science, a former director of graduate studies and admissions, dean, and now vice president for diversity, I view the crisis of Black faculty and staff retention in the Academy as a quiet earthquake — slowly moving beneath the ground, embodying the terrors that make academic life untenable.

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Accused Idaho killer studied criminology. Is there a link?

Inside Higher Ed

It’s tempting to draw a connection between Kohberger’s academic pursuits and the crime he’s accused of committing, but experts say that neither the evidence in the case nor the nature of criminology scholarship supports that link. “What we teach is ‘how come? These crimes are very different.”