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Dr. Ruth J. Simmons Takes Readers ‘Up Home’ in New Memoir

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. At the heart of those questions was a deep curiosity about how she overcame seeming insurmountable odds to become a world-renowned college administrator. “I

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In Equity Efforts, Where Does Title IX Truly Stand?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This included a disproportionate number of athletic opportunities for male athletes and a shortfall in investment in women’s athletic programs, including athletic scholarships, recruiting, and coach compensation. Trumble’s research thesis as an undergraduate was about sexual and gendered violence on college campuses.

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A pathway to graduate school for Latinx students

Inside Higher Ed

We wanted the book to speak to Latinx students in multiple contexts and from various places, across disciplines within the social sciences and humanities. What should college administrators do to dismantle them? Also, doing that work can and should be done in connection with community.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

Given the bar that you just described, what else do we do to enhance and flesh out the discussion about college quality and college value? If you’re a college administrator, you know about this data, or you should be aware now. Itzkowitz: You put the data out there. That gave us a different way to think about it.

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