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5 tips for college and university presidents to support diversity, equity and inclusion

University Business

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. They are clear and mission-driven.

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Strong Networks Help Turn Black Faculty into University Presidents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male.

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NYC Comptroller Urges Yeshiva U to Recognize LGBTQ Group

Inside Higher Ed

New York City comptroller Brad Lander sent a letter to Yeshiva University president Ari Berman on Monday urging him to recognize the YU Pride Alliance, an LGBTQ student group that sued the university in 2021 for failing to do so. A New York appeals court ruled in December that the university must recognize the club.

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Paul LeBlanc’s Latest Book is a Must-Read

eLiterate

Every system that organizes humans for a purpose is a system of care. And since these costs add up as an business grows, bigger businesses will tend to realize bigger savings by organizing as companies, having employees, putting a management structure in place, and so on. One such human is Mel Conway, a software engineer.

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Stanford questioned over response to 'Mein Kampf' photo

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Stanford University officials’ response to a shared image of a student reading Adolf Hitler’s autobiography has drawn a sharp critique from a national free speech advocacy organization. FIRE officials are asking for more clarity on the incident and how the university is handling it.

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Paul LeBlanc’s ‘Broken’ and the Dream of Quality at Scale

Inside Higher Ed

SNHU president Paul LeBlanc's new book, Broken , is about scale. If any university president is well placed to think about scale, it is LeBlanc. SNHU is the largest university in the US, enrolling around 178,000 students. Instead, the faculty focus on instruction.

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10 Must-Listen Podcasts to Help Raise Your Leadership Game

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Brian Blake sat down with us to discuss his first year at Georgia State University. President Blake recalled how his path to the presidency of this historic institution had included his previous career in the technology sector, well outside of academia. Click the banner below to watch the video. Click here for full audio.