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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

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Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors. Other notable mentions: Dr. Stuart Rayfield, Columbus State University Dr. Cheryl McConnell, Saint Joseph’s University, the school’s first female president. Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

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Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Following his and others’ departures, he said, just one full-time professor will remain in his department.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.” Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for how schools can navigate admissions and still consider other factors in evaluating applicants, including neighborhood and high school data, life challenges, and experiences of racial discrimination. “The

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

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Established in 2020, the College of Ethnic Studies is the newest college at California State University, Los Angeles, and one of only two schools of ethnic studies in California. The addition of 54 new faculty from underrepresented groups means the university has its most diverse group of faculty in its 200-year history.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. Department of Education (ED). Sports Scholars of the Year In the spring, Diverse named Nakobe Dean and Sophie Jaques the Male and Female Arthur Ashe Jr. Some good news came in late summer as U.S.

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Incidents on AU campus prompt look into policy

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University leaders responded with an email to the campus denouncing the incident and announcing that the Office of the Dean of Students would investigate and determine whether the incident constituted a violation of the university code of conduct. Burwell the very next day voicing concerns about the investigation.

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On the offense: A new Trump defamation suit, yet another one threatened, and more! — FAN 352

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history, having “been sued a whopping 134 times in federal court since his inauguration, which is nearly three times the number of lawsuits our three previous presidents have faced in the early months of their administration combined. “The Yale dean on free speech at Yale Law School. “ Sincerely, Heather K. Bernstein.