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Dr. Cady Short-Thompson Appointed President of Northern Kentucky University

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From 1996 to 2010, she taught at the school as a professor of communication, graduate program director, and department chair. “I Cady Short-Thompson Short-Thompson is currently CEO and executive director of educational equity at the nonprofit Breakthrough Cincinnati. This appointment marks a return to NKU for Short-Thompson.

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Cruzado Wins 2024 Council of Fellows Mentor Award

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Waded Cruzado The annual award acknowledges the role mentors play in the success of participants in the ACE Fellows Program, which was established in 1965 to help prepare faculty and administrators for senior positions in higher education leadership. Each one was a teacher and I learned from them as much as I gave.

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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

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of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The debt load of those who did is disproportionately high.

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Fry to Become Temple’s 15th President

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Fry has served as president of Drexel University since 2010. He previously served as president of Franklin and Marshall College from 2002– 2010, and as executive vice president at the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of Lafayette College, he holds an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

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workforce participation growth between 2010-2020, the report noted. increase in undergrad engineering enrollment rates from 2010 (9.1%) to 2021 (15.8%). The contributions are significant enough that if the national Latino population were its own country, it would have the fifth-largest GDP in the world, $3.2 of the U.S. population.

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

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Among those ages 25–59 who are English majors, the median earnings of Black graduates in 2010–14 was $46,000 and the median for Latino grads in 2009-2013 was $48,000. Along lines or race and ethnicity, Black and Latino graduates in the humanities typically earn less than their white counterparts. in English. “[It

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SDSU to Rename Commons Buildings After Prominent SDSU Figures

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Bell was the second Black faculty member of San Diego State College (SDSC) and the first Black faculty member to achieve tenure. Bell died in 2010. SDSU is so proud to honor her as an alumna.” Bell will be celebrated through the renaming of the East Commons into the Charles B. Outside of the U.S.,