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Brietta Clark, Loyola Marymount Law School

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Clark has used her extensive experience to elevate the law schools curriculum, guide students and alumni on their career paths, and influence the public discourse through her scholarship, public service, and media commentary.

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Colleges Are More Than Just an Education but a Capital Investment into Our Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What Murray Sperber described in his bestseller Beer and Circus in 2001 is every bit as true today: the academic enterprise is decentered, and the quality of housing amenities, the robustness of student life programming, and the quality of an institution’s athletic teams are primary drivers of undergraduate enrollment.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum. It will also be hiring a full-time program coordinator to help manage the grant’s efforts. Patterns of racialization in the U.S.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum. It will also be hiring a full-time program coordinator to help manage the grant’s efforts. Patterns of racialization in the U.S.

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“A Million Miles Away” watch party with José Hernández

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Hamm The Amazon Original film “A Million Miles Away” is an inspiring true story based on the life of TRIO Upward Bound and TRIO Student Support Services alumnus, 2001 National TRIO Achiever Award recipient, and author José Hernández , the first migrant farmworker to become an American astronaut.

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Growing up here, we knew about UCLA, but it seemed so far away,” he says of the institution, roughly 15 miles away from his old neighborhood, that has served as his academic home since 2001. “It And then, a position opened at UCLA in 2001. It was like a lifetime away.” The two go hand in hand.” After he earned his Ph.D.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Simmons, the first Black president of an Ivy League institution, Brown University, which she led from 2001-12, retired as president of Prairie View A&M University after five years. It recounts her weekly visits to a segregated library during her childhood. History-maker Dr. Ruth J. She was 67. secretary of education, on Twitter.