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Women’s Wrestling Aims At 2026 NCAA Championship Status

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ragean Hill "We are extremely proud of the work that USA Wrestling has done to make this a reality in such a short period of time,” said Ragean Hill, chair of the Committee on Women's Athletics and executive associate athletics director/senior woman administrator at Charlotte.

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Scholar-Practitioner Helps to Promote Inclusivity at Alma Mater

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I remember riding the bus home from work one day and I saw someone with the Central Michigan University bumper sticker, and so I applied because I recognized the bumper sticker,” says Patterson-Stephens, who graduated in 2003 from CMU with a degree in sociology. Dr. Shawna Patterson-Stephens is a board member of the Dr. Melvin C.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. (“White House Honoree, Jan. 16, 2003) 5. From Opening Doors to Opening Minds,” Aug. Acknowledging Top 100 Degree Producers.

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A 40th Anniversary Love Story: About My Favorite Magazine

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. in May 2003. It was love at first sight. I earned my Ph.D.

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DREAM Conference Marks Milestone

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

ATD’s existence is a result of the Lumina Foundation’s invitation to select organizations to form a partnership focused on community colleges back in 2003. At this year’s conference, Lumina’s CEO, Jamie Merisotis, delivered a keynote address, affirming the success of ATD over these past 20 years.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Montgomery—an accomplished economist who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations—is African American. “Now From 1998 to 2003, Floyd served the university before going on to lead the University of Missouri and Washington State University. The school’s president, Dr. Edward B.

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It was NEVER about Deion: HBCU Realities VS. Perceptions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jackson State has ranked within the top 15 in all of FCS since 2003 when the NCAA started publishing the data. This conversation isn’t about Deion or what he did and did not do for HBCUs. If we are being honest, Jackson State was fine before Primetime. Been #1 since 2018. Don’t get us wrong. Dr. Frederick V.

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