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Report Finds That Affirmative Action Only Led to Incremental Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jeff Strohl, director of CEW and lead author of “ Progress Interrupted: Evaluating a Decade of Demographic Change at Selective and Open-Access Institutions Prior to the End of Race-Conscious Affirmative Action.” Hispanic/Latino enrollment almost doubled Hispanic/Latino, increasing by about 50,000, at selective institutions from 2009 to 2019.

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Fielding Graduate University Mourns Educational Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The university noted contributions to be made in memory Taylor’s memory may be made to the Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education at Fielding. Taylor served in several senior leadership positions at Howard University, and as president of the Washington, D.C., Dr. Orlando L. 10, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California.

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Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership. Higher Ed Leadership. When President LeBlanc began his first higher ed leadership position in 1996, the year of the dotcom boom, he saw a role for digital technology at Vermont's small, struggling Marlboro College. Learning Leadership the Hard Way. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00.

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Moving the Needle on Graduation Rates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are the four pillars of transformation, ingredients critical to the mission of Complete College America (CCA), the advocacy organization working to improve college graduation rates since 2009. She role models that leadership for us.” Prior to her joining CCA, we were doing amazing work, but we never had a strategic plan.

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Leadership at All Levels of Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

President Sacks talked to us about the view on the ground versus the big picture, her personal leadership journey, some of her proudest accomplishments, strategies for decision making, and the power of both information and knowledge. Department of Education. They don't even like horses. That was formative.”

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

He spoke with us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast about his leadership style, expectations he's faced, lessons he's learning from the experience, and how future administrators might best prepare for this kind of leadership. And that's how I started to solidify my position to keep us moving forward."

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I didn’t understand why everybody didn’t have access. And I was determined to have access,” says Williams. I made sure everyone had access, especially my Black classmates and friends,” says Williams. Tapping into access became a deliberate decision. He became what he calls “a student for everybody.” “I

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