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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “In the words of Wilma Rudolph, ‘never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. History at UCLA.

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N.C. A&T Celebrates 64th Anniversary of A&T Four’s Historic Sit-In

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Barnhill installed the sculpture in 2002 in front of Dudley Memorial Building. A&T Fellowship Gospel Choir and a presentation of the Human Rights Medal, the university’s highest honor for contributions to civil rights, civil liberties and/or human rights, to an honoree whose name will be revealed at the event.

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Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline

The University Innovation Alliance

While the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) focuses on higher ed, we also care about what happens after students earn their degree. I was obsessed with making sure that the staff pipeline represented the students we had the privilege of teaching. Helping Higher Ed Institutions Help Students Ms.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Postsecondary educators have been increasingly focused on supporting positive student mental health over the past decades. Additionally, much of the difference in academic performance among students with marginalized sociodemographic identities was statistically explained by disparities in mental health. times that of their peers.

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Choosing or Dumping Harvard?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

May 1st is the deadline date for students to decide which ivory tower suitor to accept. You will recall, we are waiting for the Supreme Court to opine on the Students For Fair Admissions suit claiming Harvard’s use of race in admissions is discriminatory against Asian Americans. Oh, to where, to where shall I matriculate?

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New Leadership Carries the University Forward

The University Innovation Alliance

I left Duke University, that I loved and still love, where I have friends, colleagues, and students. Here I'm in service to thousands of students and all the faculty and staff, and the day that it doesn't feel like a privilege is the day I should quit. The day that I left, I was no longer going to be entangled in that institution.

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The State of Black America is Improving, But Not Close to Parity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The practice has historically been employed to increase the presence of underrepresented minority students at U.S. Ford, Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. Voter registration among Black people in 2022 was found to have decreased since 2002, another midterm election year.