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Program Equips Community College Students to Obtain Four-Year Degrees

Insight Into Diversity

First-generation students and those from underrepresented groups and disadvantaged backgrounds are given priority in the application process for the five-week summer program at Vassar, a private liberal arts institution in New York state. Scholarships are awarded to cover tuition and room and board.

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

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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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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Elimelda Ongeri, dean of the John R. Bronwyn Cross-Denny, Christina Gunther, Sofia Pendley, and Jacqueline Vernarelli — recently secured a $1,495,472 HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) grant titled “Public Health Scholarship Program to Strengthen the Emergency Preparedness Workforce.” and Kathy R.

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Direct Admissions Helps Raise Applications, But Not Enrollments

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We see bigger impacts for these groups because they were the ones disadvantaged by these barriers to begin with.” It’s a roadblock that Dr. Alan Byrd, dean of admissions at George Mason University, one of the schools in the Common App pilot, saw up close. Direct admissions is focused on eliminating those barriers,” said Odle. “We

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies.

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Academic Libraries Leading the Way in Accessibility

Insight Into Diversity

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is home to the Purdue University Library Center for Digital Scholarship, whose mission is to “remove barriers to global participation in a knowledge commons and build a more diverse, equitable, and sustainable system of scholarly communication.”

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

In addition, Dean Amy Fairchild added an associate dean for faculty and inclusive excellence to her leadership team who is charged with articulating and advancing a vision for inclusive excellence and providing leadership to enhance excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. A $1 million award from the U.S.