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UC Irvine to Launch Pre-Health Professional Development Program to Support Students from Underserved Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million grant from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information – will select undergraduates for training, advising, and support to increase readiness for medical school. Belinda Campos UC PRIME Pre-Health Pathways (UCPPP) – it is receiving funding from a five-year, $3.6

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

It will change higher education forever. Eroding public confidence in higher education. Is it that higher education is reeling, that past failures are coming home to roost, and the long-anticipated day of reckoning has at last arrived? Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s claim is true. Grave threats to tenure.

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Columbia University Reaches Out to HBCUs for Fellowship Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams, a director of student affairs and DEI for graduate programs in sustainability management and sustainability science, tours the country and tells people about what the Ivy League school’s fellowship can offer them. Terrell Strayhorn, director of Virgina Union University’s Center for the Study of HBCUs.

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SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 174 with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Thomas Parham and Dilcie Perez

The Change Leader, Inc.

University Diversity and the Drive for Inclusive Campuses of Tomorrow In the wake of SCOTUS’ ruling against Affirmative Action in college recruitment, higher education institutions are struggling to identify alternative ways to diversify their student bodies. This move couldn’t have come at a worse time. Recent studies show that only 22.6%