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Building Opportunities for Black Men

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Adrianne Washington, dean of special academic programs at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), found that the Honors Program was overlooking the school’s Black men, it didn’t sit right with her. Washington is dean of the nascent Honors College. The Honors College is in its pilot stage.

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Century-Old Institutions Paving the Way for DEI in Sports with Strategic Plan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Molly Harry, an assistant professor of recreation and sport management at the University of Arkansas, says student-athletes are more likely to choose their college based on scholarship amounts, proximity to home, playing time, and the potentiality of NIL deals. athletic system and not the athletes themselves.

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Are We There Yet? Revising and Questioning Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hughes Because I claim antiracism scholarship and practice antiracism in every space where I am present, I am often questioned and challenged. When we drill down to who is employed, recruited, and hired by an organization, the illogical doesn’t make sense. Dr. Robin L. Turn the gaslight up, institutionalized racism has become our norm.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is why we really can’t be doing enough to recruit underrepresented groups to medicine, and why the recent Supreme Court decision really sets us back, while we are already behind.” These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. physicians are Black, and 6.9% are Latinx.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) is focused on recruiting students from rural, Appalachian, and Delta states — where there are physician shortages. — Deans CARE Interns — Texas A&M University Irma Lerma Rangel School of Pharmacy. and over 90 percent of VCOM students are from one of these areas.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching? students as they did.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

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which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.