Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

As a tenured full professor of political science, a former director of graduate studies and admissions, dean, and now vice president for diversity, I view the crisis of Black faculty and staff retention in the Academy as a quiet earthquake — slowly moving beneath the ground, embodying the terrors that make academic life untenable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

With the goal of infusing scholarship into practice, thousands of student affairs practitioners from colleges and universities across the nation gathered in Boston to strategize about the future of the profession. My first NASPA conference was focused on the lack of current research on minority student retention.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We did well improving retention, diversity, and outcomes, moving up in ranks, all these sorts of things, but I want to do this at a scale that could only be done in a place like Arizona State University.’ So, finding that Zen, that moment, that tripod has been very, very important to me. “On That was powerful.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

In stark contrast to prevailing trends in higher education, colleges and universities have or are boosting their enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by improving their students’ sense of belonging, student support services, student-faculty relationships, and career readiness programs. Elliott, welcome to the show.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

The report highlights three basic pathways: high school, community college, and university. Today, we’ll focus on what universities can do to improve enrollment and retention so their graduates can move into good jobs earlier in their careers. What are three takeaways that university presidents and boards need to do?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

He recently led a project to develop a data-driven metric for identifying rural-serving institutions (RSIs), and he has been invited to speak by a number of organizations, including the American Association of State Colleges & Universities, National Scholarship Providers Association, and the Oregon Community College Association.

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