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Looking Back to See Forward - Dr. Nic John Ramos

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., Ramos, jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies, serves as an assistant professor in the Department of History at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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Dartmouth Launches New Research Institute Focused On Black Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The institute is part of "Toward Equity," a three-year strategic plan to improve Dartmouth's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. To ensure that history is never forgotten so that we can create a thriving future for everyone who should learn about the Black community and their contributions."

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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A Defense of the Senior Diversity Officer in Politically Charged Times

Insight Into Diversity

Institutions wary of the battle to unwind the work of equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging would do well to invest in leaders whose work epitomizes its core values. Our newer faculty ranks are at their most diverse in UC history. Our trajectories connect through the continually evolving scholarship of inclusion.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. He takes the time to meet with his Latinx learners, to sit with them, discuss the challenges they face, and share his own history with them. asks Delgado.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world. Is there equity in measures of faculty success? Yet, at most U.S. And the diversity of faculty declines as academic rank increases.

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Affirmative action reaction: Higher ed leaders weigh in on Supreme Court’s decision

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“Appealing to a principle of ‘color-blindness’ at odds with history and law, the Court’s conservative majority says, ‘trust us’ while it imposes its will on higher education’s admission policies,” Roth and Gonzalez wrote in an email.