Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

4. Jay Z (“So Ambitious”, 2009) “I'm different, I can't base what I'm gonna be off of what everybody isn't.” First generation college students are tasked with the tumultuous role of paving their own road. Many of your peers will not have this mindset, but that can’t deter you from the goal at hand. Dr. Jeremy C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.” After completing his Ph.D.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. I prefer to talk about leadership rather than administration, because administration connotes bureaucracy. We can't escape that.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

He has won three National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, including one for a 2009 series of Inside Higher Ed articles on college rankings. 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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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Initially unfamiliar with the world of higher ed, President Stokes admitted that her leadership trajectory was unexpected: “I'm a first-generation student. Stokes became the 23rd president of The University of New Mexico (UNM) on May 12, 2018, the first woman to hold that office.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 25, 2022

Although he returned to the private sector after his tenure in the Obama Administration, Secretary Duncan generously shared his views on the need for institutions to support student success, the need for government to encourage institutions in this effort, and the urgency for moving ahead with these initiatives. Secretary of Education.

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