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Brietta Clark, Loyola Marymount Law School

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Since joining the law school faculty in 2001, Clark has been instrumental in developing and implementing the law schools strategic vision to increase access to legal education and advance Loyolas mission of academic excellence with real-world impact.

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UCLA Alumni Couple Pledges $10 Million to Ethnic Studies Centers

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“It was like planting a seed, not to say that we were the sole seed planters, because there were many people – many students, some faculty, and others – planting seeds, fertilizing them, helping them grow.” For faculty members, holding an endowed chair is often considered the highest honor that you can have as a professor,” Yoo said.

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

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Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. Since 2001, the foundation has given over $270 million in advance grants to institutions and nonprofit groups in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. York lauds the program as “really smart.”

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Christopher Edley, Prominent Legal Scholar, Passes Away

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Dr. Stella Flores, a professor of higher education and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, was hired as a graduate student at the Harvard Civil Rights Project in 2001. “ John Hope Franklin Award, the annual recognition for excellence in higher education named after the pioneering Black historian.

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Dr. Condoleezza Rice

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Bush’s national security adviser from January 2001-2005, the first woman to hold the position. billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students. billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

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A transformative college president Prior to becoming the leader of ATD, Stout spent 14 years as the president of Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania, beginning in 2001. At the same time, the deans are talking to their faculty about the data in the classroom that faculty are using.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

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With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. Curriculum Alongside wraparound services and culturally competent faculty and staff, what’s taught in the classroom is also vital to bolstering student success, Chang says. Patterns of racialization in the U.S.

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