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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He was so successful, in fact, that by the time he graduated from high school, Williams had achieved access to the same country club that barred him due to his race. Williams found great success in business, but at the same time, felt the effects of imposter syndrome. Everyone didn’t feel that way.” Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr.,

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

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Sabree discovered that huge educational gaps existed in transfer rates for this population at community colleges across the nation (Harper, 2009). From the interviews, Sabree identified guiding principles for future student-athletes’ community college success, including: • Practice discipline and demonstrate a great deal of maturity.

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Report Finds That Affirmative Action Only Led to Incremental Progress

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The report is a retrospective analysis of the changing demographics at selective and open-access institutions from 2009 to 2019; researchers ended their analysis in 2019 to account for changing enrollment patterns that resulted, in part, from the COVID-19 pandemic. It comes less than a year after the U.S.

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Hospital Honors Trailblazing Surgeon With Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D. Outpatient Center

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He also performed the world’s first successful implantation of an automatic heart defibrillator in 1980; founded the annual Johns Hopkins Martin Luther King Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund for minority medical students in 2009. He served as associate dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. who was a pastor at his family’s church. “I

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5 Hip-Hop Quotes to Inspire College Students

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One major key to success in college is thoroughly reviewing and critiquing your work before a professor can. There is no luck when it comes to academic success. 4. Jay Z (“So Ambitious”, 2009) “I'm different, I can't base what I'm gonna be off of what everybody isn't.” It’s crucial to be intentional about your future.

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

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There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015).

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

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Building pipelines After attending undergraduate and graduate school, Thompson built a career as a professor, administrator, and researcher/writer before joining the CPE in 2009 as senior vice president for academic affairs. He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018. A framework was built.