Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Expansion and diversity in higher education (1980s-1990s) During the 1980s and 1990s, higher education in the United States underwent transformative changes marked by a significant expansion in access and a growing emphasis on diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018. Toward that end, Thompson praises Dr. Dawn Offutt, executive director of access, engagement, and belonging, for creating programming that helps campuses be culturally competent for everybody. This includes a cultural competence certification program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

While shootings on campus are extremely rare, said Williamson, the mental health and wellbeing of students, faculty, and staff can be deeply impacted by these events, which is why it is crucial that institutions of higher education respond to these incidents.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

jules While the raison d’etre of the syllabi has gone unchanged, aspects of society have evolved, and we find ourselves in the middle of a racial awakening since 2013 and the rise of the global Black Lives Matter Movement. Relatedly is the need for faculty to focus on labor acknowledgement which recognizes slavery and enslaved people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Prior to joining the Ohio State faculty in 1979, becoming the university’s first African-American woman full professor, she served as professor of education at Case Western Reserve University and previously in positions as dean of students and dean of women at Fisk University and Albany (Ga.)

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Timely MD

JUNE 5, 2024

However, one of the most pressing issues is the significant wait times for accessing mental healthcare. The mental health crisis on campuses According to the Healthy Minds survey , over 60% of college students meet the criteria for at least one mental health problem — a 50% increase since 2013.

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The Advisor That Cares

AUGUST 26, 2023

Then, the advising and support units use a different system to invite students to appointments, request progress report updates from faculty, record interaction notes on services utilized, answer questions, and make support recommendations. 2013, February 27). 2013, April 11). 2013, June 19). TechTrends , 56 (4), 34–41.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Postsecondary institutions are uniquely positioned to support a demographic of students who experience the greatest risk of first onset of mental illness as a result of the developmental trajectory of many common mental illnesses (within the 16-24 age window; Jones, 2013). Mitigating Barriers.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The number of annual graduates of color at UIA institutions has increased 93% from 2012-2013 to 2021-2022. To access the Lab as a non-UIA member, please add your name to our wait list. Over 250,000 higher ed leaders, staff, faculty and advocates watch each episode across our audiences. Diffusion to the Field 1.

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Supporting Student Success

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Out of all the “personality assessments” I have taken, CliftonStrengths resonates with me most because of the personalized results and their seemingly infinite combinations – the odds that someone will have the exact same Top 5 results in the exact same order is 1 in 33 million (Leibbrandt, 2013). 2013, August 28). References.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The number of annual graduates of color at UIA institutions has increased 93% from 2012-2013 to 2021-2022. To access the Lab as a non-UIA member, please add your name to our wait list. Over 250,000 higher ed leaders, staff, faculty and advocates watch each episode across our audiences. Diffusion to the Field 1.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 9, 2024

Some deans and faculty members caught wind of us because students started saying, ‘The work I'm doing with this organization is important to me seeing how I get through SJSU, but also how I pay off my debt or help my family when I get out.’ In January 2013, she began overseeing the Public Affairs and Communications teams.

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Clair Kamp Dush

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Rather, implicit biases are not accessible through introspection.”. They help targeted people “cope with micro-aggressions” ( Ganote, Cheung, Souza ; Irey, 2013, pp. Our implicit biases cause us to make assumptions about others based on their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, where they grew up, etcetera.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2023

Glover – who was hired to lead Tennessee’s only land-grant, historically Black university in 2013 – said her voice was needed on a "more national platform," though she had no specific plans for the future. My skillset, leadership, voice is needed now much more than ever as we fight to protect access and equity," she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

gifted and talented); conversely, they are significantly overrepresented in special education, and in-school discipline and suspension rates (Ford & Moore, 2013; Hines et al., In the P-12 education system, Black males have lower graduation rates in high school, are underrepresented in accelerated programs (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Dual rules This situation is equally upsetting for many members of the faculty and staff. “As Dr. Jennifer Nájera Another step forward came in 2013 with the passing of the California Dream Act, which made undocumented students eligible to apply for state financial aid. But then in 2016 came President Donald J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2024, the nation lost a number of individuals who were passionate for helping to ensure that higher education remained accessible and diverse. In 2004, Edley joined UC Berkely as dean of the law school, but stepped down from the role in 2013 and took a medical leave to battle prostate cancer. Christopher Edley Jr. Orrick, Jr.

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Timely MD

JANUARY 23, 2023

She remembers an app someone on campus mentioned, one that gives students free, 24/7 access to a behavioral health professional. And another study by Boston University, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders , analyzed data collected by the Healthy Minds Network from more than 350,000 students across 373 campuses from 2013 to 2021.

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Timely MD

JANUARY 23, 2023

She remembers an app someone on campus mentioned, one that gives students free, 24/7 access to a behavioral health professional. And another study by Boston University, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders , analyzed data collected by the Healthy Minds Network from more than 350,000 students across 373 campuses from 2013 to 2021.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 24, 2023

He was inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association’s Hall of Fame in 2013. For the past decade, she has advised university presidents, system chancellors, and state and federal policy leaders on strategies to expand access to higher education, address costs, and promote completion for students of all backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

Casteen III, a transformative leader who dramatically expanded educational access and diversity during his 20-year tenure, died last week following a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. This personal experience informed his passionate advocacy for educational access throughout his career.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Allen was vice provost for faculty at Penn from 2013 to 2020. Today’s world still has its own health and privacy-related issues, says Allen, citing issues around women’s access to healthcare, and disproportionately high mortality rates of Black mothers and Black babies. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

The faculty person overseeing his project encouraged him to attend graduate school, which he did, earning a Ph.D. Making formal academic work accessible to a broader audience is also something he has learned and utilized. We published this in the Journal of GLBT Family Studies (2013), and we wrote a press release.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Experts urge higher education leaders, faculty, and staff, to brace themselves with community while having hard conversations about their purpose and place in society and to decide where they stand on issues of shared governance. Since 2013, over 80 anti-DEI bills have been introduced in 28 states, and 14 have been signed into law.

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