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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. I made sure I was available. I made sure I was there to problem solve.”

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

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in 2003 – and 7.5% Among these suggestions were calls for corporations to implement inclusive hiring practices and diversity in leadership; and a need for higher ed to recruit Latino faculty in engineering and tech. rise from 7% to 13.6%. On the graduate level, Latino students were 9.4% of engineering doctorate recipients.

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

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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. 16, 2003) 5. From Opening Doors to Opening Minds,” Aug. Mississippi’s Crusading Gadfly,” Jan.

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DREAM Conference Marks Milestone

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At a time when some organizations and associations have opted to boycott holding their convenings in Florida — the battleground in the ongoing fight to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives — Stout says that it was particularly important for ATD to show up in the Sunshine State this year.

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Bridging Research and Practice

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Opportunity to make a difference For the 49-year-old public scholar who has spent much of his career exploring issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and anti-racism leadership across the K-12 and higher education landscape, coming to WMU was an opportunity to help propel the 120-year institution forward.

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Bringing Greater Impact

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He joined the faculty of Connecticut College in 2003, and was an associate professor of history, director of the African American studies program as well as interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion, chair of the history department and director of the Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

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Celebrating the Past, Mobilizing the Future: 20 Years of Active Minds

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I founded Active Minds in 2003 , following the loss of my brother Brian to suicide. Looking to the future, I know the most critical factor in combating the current youth mental health crisis is the inclusion and amplification of youth and young adult perspectives.