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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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in 2003 – and 7.5% One issue highlighted in the report was the shortage of Latino mentors to encourage students to pursue STEM fields. 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.

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

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

The University Innovation Alliance

She noted that her former boss, UC Riverside's chancellor Kim Wilcox , is now her peer, adding: "He's a great friend and mentor, but all the way along, I haven't thought about having a boss. Doug was managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003, after working at The Chronicle since 1986 in a variety of roles.

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New Leadership Carries the University Forward

The University Innovation Alliance

Inclusive Excellence in Our Universities As the leader of a highly regarded public research university, President Sheares Ashby recognizes her role as a pathfinder for higher education: "Trying to help define and move forward inclusive excellence is everything for me. And so, inclusive excellence means everything.