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

Insight Into Diversity

In the Academy, one consequence is a revolving door of Black faculty and staff who have become homeless in an otherwise spacious Academy, as well as Black students whose academic careers are either undermined or cut short for lack of Black role models.

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Africa “can take the wheel” in global research shift

The PIE News

Higher education leaders are calling for a science and research “rebalance” to supercharge global scholarship and create a research ecosystem that doesn’t disadvantage Africa and the Global South. ” The post Africa “can take the wheel” in global research shift appeared first on The PIE News.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today. Black males are further disadvantaged and marginalized due to being labeled and stereotyped as intellectually inferior to their racial and gender counterparts. Fletcher Jr.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences, mentions the bachelor’s degree in health services management, which began in fall 2019 in response to career interests of students in the health sciences and biological sciences. The second is undergraduate scholarships for health science students that are interested in careers in public health.

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Empowering Change: Four Key Strategies for Supporting Student Affairs Administrators in the New Affirmative Action Landscape

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These policies aimed to counteract systemic disadvantages by considering race, ethnicity, and other factors in admissions processes. Dr. Michael Steven Williams is an assistant professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis in the College of Education & Human Development at the University of Missouri.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

DVM Scholars supports underrepresented, rural, and disadvantaged students through scholarship assistance and structured retention activities throughout their four-year curriculum. CEAT also hosts community council partnership meetings to address the disparity of STEM education in low-income 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?