Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

“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. Patterson-Stephens’ work has led to national recognition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay. There is also an effort to increase equity. Less than 10% of applicants are accepted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction. Equity has long been a part of Western Michigan University’s DNA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Toldson Although the College Board has significantly expanded its AP courses over the past two decades, they have not effectively addressed longstanding racial equity issues. The gap between exam scores among different racial groups has grown since 2003, highlighting a lack of resources and support for some student populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person. there were protests on campus.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Minority stress theory, coined by Ilan Meyer (2003), articulates empirically supported findings where marginalized sociodemographic groups experience increased risk for distress due to more frequent and deleterious experiences of discrimination, harassment, systemic oppression / barriers, stigmatization and social isolation.

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