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Leading Toward Impact: Diversity and Leadership in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A confounding hurdle since the 1970s and 1980s has been the aspiration to increase the number of previously underrepresented, especially people of color, in the ranks of university professors. The forum underscored the crucial need for diversity in our colleges and American society.

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DEI Expert Seeks to Educate Campuses about Islamophobia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When he was first asked to educate people on Islamophobia, DEI expert Dr. Amer F. But after he began teaching about the issue, he gradually changed his mind. So I didn't have a lot of examples in front of me – if any – of people of my background getting to where I got to in the field." Dr. Amer F.

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Reflection & Predictions: A Conversation on Higher Education Trends

MindMax

What do higher education leaders worry about the most? What gives them hope for the future of our field? I recently hosted an interactive event bringing together leaders and pioneers in the higher education community for an evening of discussion on an important and relevant topic: Reflections & Predictions.

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Practices to create a more gender-inclusive campus (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Being transgender, especially at this time in our history, is challenging on both a personal and a social level. At some point in our lives, all of us face situations where we ask ourselves existential questions. Often I correct people; many times I don’t. gender nonconforming, gender nonbinary, agender, transgender).

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Provost makes bestiality joke, reacting to concern for LGBTQ faculty

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Florida Atlantic University’s interim provost replied to concerns about the university collecting and providing to the state information that might be used to target Black and LGBTQ faculty members by saying, “We did not know what color—if they were purple, if they had sex with animals.”

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Inclusion, Support Are Key Goals of UC Berkeley’s Faculty Link Program

Insight Into Diversity

Educators from underrepresented backgrounds and diverse disciplines at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) continue to build a campus-wide support system and sense of community through Faculty Link, an opt-in program now entering its third year. People are busy, and we don’t want to overdo it. Serena Chen.

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Biden Calls for Greater Support of HBCUs, HSIs, and MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When President Biden addressed over 32 million viewers for the annual State of the Union (SOTU) last week, he used the occasion to issue a full throttle support for higher education. Sasso, an associate professor of higher education at Delaware State University, an HBCU in Dover. Dr. Royel M. Dr. Royel M.

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