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DREAM Conference Marks Milestone

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. Lumina Foundation CEO Jamie Merisotis delivers a keynote address at the DREAM 2024 conference.

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It was NEVER about Deion: HBCU Realities VS. Perceptions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

HBCUs were the only place Black athletes could participate in college sports until the 1960s when PWIs realized that they needed Black athletes to have successful white athletic programs. Jackson State has ranked within the top 15 in all of FCS since 2003 when the NCAA started publishing the data. Been #1 since 2018. Dr. Frederick V.

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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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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The new curriculum, which is stripped of much of the subject matter that the DeSantis administration opposed, has been criticized for erasing the experiences of Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, reparations, the queer experience, and Black feminism.

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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 abruptly abandoned that topic. One day, my Black Issues arrived in the mail.

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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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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. Upon completion of her Ph.D.